Affirmative Action as Perpetuation

Roger Clegg on diversity for its own sake:

… If the idea is to teach white and Asian students that they ought not to assume that African Americans and Latinos are less academically qualified than they are, then the last thing schools should be doing is creating an environment in which white and Asian students are systematically exposed to black and Latino students who are less academically qualified than they are.

Via Cold Spring Shops.

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