With Supreme Court oral arguments now scheduled for the Harvard and University of North Carolina affirmative action cases, I ve started reading through some of the amicus briefs filed in the case, and will comment on some of them in due course. Meanwhile, an exchange of letters between Macklin Fleming, a Justice of the Court of Appeals, State of California at Los Angeles, and Louis Pollak, Dean of the Yale Law School, that was
Yale Law School is imploding. (Article republished from Revolver.news) What might be the single most prestigious academic institution in the United States is tearing itself apart in a manner [.]
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In 2019-20, 77% of high school seniors took the SAT test as part of the process of applying for admission to colleges and universities. In 2020-21, fewer than 50% will do so and most colleges are not requiring SAT scores because many of the testing dates were canceled because of COVID.
Now the woke race activists are demanding that standardized testing be eliminated altogether as part of the college admissions process. Their reason? Because lower test scores by minority students (except Asians pay not attention) is a reflection of racism the results prove the racism, and nothing more be said or proven.
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In 2019-20, 77% of high school seniors took the SAT test as part of the process of applying for admission to colleges and universities. In 2020-21, fewer than 50% will do so and most colleges are not requiring SAT scores because many of the testing dates were canceled because of COVID.
Now the “woke” race activists are demanding that standardized testing be eliminated altogether as part of the college admissions process. Their reason? Because lower test scores by minority students (except Asians pay not attention) is a reflection of racism the results prove the racism, and nothing more be said or proven.
Yale Law Students Said a Top Journal Was Racist. Admissions Data Suggest Otherwise. Yale University / Getty Images
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Yale Law Journal on Friday released admissions data in the face of a week-long pressure campaign in which activists alleged that blacks are underrepresented on the masthead. The numbers demonstrate the opposite, showing that blacks and other minority groups are overrepresented on the prestigious journal relative both to the student body at large and the general population.
The conflagration began on Tuesday after a
Journal editor, Gavin Jackson, resigned, saying he felt used and tokenized in his position. Jackson s resignation elicited furious statements from a raft of affinity groups at the law school, which are demanding that the