Diversity Challenged: Evidence on the Impact of Affirmative Action: Evidence on the Impace of Affirmative Action - Brossura

Civil Rights Project (Harvard University)

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ISBN 10: 1891792024 ISBN 13: 9781891792021

Casa editrice: Harvard Education Pr, 2001

Riassunto

This book explores what is known about how increasing minority enrollment changes and enriches the educational process.

In the courts and in referenda campaigns, affirmative action in college admissions is under full-scale attack. Though it was designed to help resolve a variety of serious racial problems, affirmative action's survival may turn on just one question--whether or not the educational value of diversity is sufficiently compelling to justify consideration of race as a factor in deciding whom to admit to colleges and universities. Diversity Challenged is designed to address that question.

In chapter after chapter, researchers and policymakers discuss substantial developing evidence showing that diversity of students can and usually does produce a broader educational experience, both in traditional learning and in preparing for jobs, professions, and effective citizenship in a multiracial democracy. The evidence also suggests that such benefits can be significantly increased by appropriate leadership and support on campus. Diversity may be challenged on college campuses today, but the research and evidence in this book shows how diversity works.

&;From the Introduction by Gary Orfield

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Edited by Gary Orfield

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In the courts and in referenda campaigns, affirmative action in college admissions is under full-scale attack. Though it was designed to help resolve a variety of serious racial problems, affirmative action's survival may turn on just one question&;whether or not the educational value of diversity is sufficiently compelling to justify consideration of race as a factor in deciding whom to admit to colleges and universities. Diversity Challenged is designed to address that question.

This book explores what is known about how increasing minority enrollment changes and enriches the educational process. In chapter after chapter, researchers and policymakers discuss substantial developing evidence showing that diversity of students can and usually does produce a broader educational experience, both in traditional learning and in preparing for jobs, professions, and effective citizenship in a multiracial democracy. The evidence also suggests that such benefits can be significantly increased by appropriate leadership and support on campus. &;From the Introduction by Gary Orfield

Edited by Gary Orfield

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Harvard Education Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1891792024
• ISBN 13: 9781891792021
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 307
• Redattore: Orfield Gary, Kurlaender Michal
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile