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How race preferences damage higher education
A Dubious Expediency: How Race Preferences Damage Higher Education, the fine new essay collection edited by Gail Heriot and Maimon Schwarzschild. The contributors include the two editors, Heather Mac Donald, Peter Kirsanow, and Peter Wood.
Gail’s chapter on the impacts of race preferences on their intended direct beneficiaries is must reading, in my opinion. Wouldn’t it be great if the chapter were read by the Supreme Court Justices considering whether to hear the challenge to Harvard’s discriminatory admissions policy?
I thought I knew all the ins-and-outs of the “mismatch” argument that race preferences disadvantage the alleged direct beneficiaries by driving them out of difficult study areas they would be able to pursue successfully at schools they would attend absent the preferences. But I learned plenty from Gail’s chapter.
Fri Jun 02 2000 at 20:21:42
Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm (1785-1863) and his brother Wilhelm Carl Grimm (1786-1859) are best known as the editors of Grimm s Fairy Tales, a massive collection of of over 200 legends, myths, and fairy tales.
Their father, a prosperous lawyer, died suddenly in 1796, bringing the brother s idyllic childhood to an abrupt end. They were brought up by an aunt, in reduced circumstances, and intended to study law. They both found themselves drawn to German medievalliterature instead, and entered the University of Marburg. Jacob left before completing his degree, and went to Paris to assist his mentor with research. It was on his return home that Jacob and Willhelm began their search for traditional fairy tales. The first few are preserved in a series of letters from early 1808.