[lbo-talk] Slate: "In College Admissions, Affirmative Action and Its Critics Both Have The Same Problem"

Joseph Catron jncatron at gmail.com
Tue Aug 13 07:58:02 PDT 2013


Your thoughts?

"If the powers-that-be think it's useful to ability-rank 18 year-olds for pedagogical purposes, then perhaps that's correct. But the second stage of the college sorting process where more resources are expended on a UC Berkeley student than a community college student doesn't have any justification. That unfairness permeates the entire system. And because the system is unfair, there's no way to incorporate race (or not incorporate it) or to replace race with class or geography or anything else that will produce a fair outcome."

http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/08/05/affirmative_action_and_its_critics.html

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