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ERIC Number: EJ409775
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1990
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On the Higher Learning in America: Some Comments.
Sowell, Thomas
Public Interest, n99 p68-78 Spr 1990
The author of "Choosing a College" (Harper & Row, 1989) discusses the difference between teachers and researchers, matching schools with students, and the failure of reforms to improve the quality of teaching in institutions of higher learning. Attributes the recent renewal of overt campus racism to misguided preferential quota programs. (FMW)
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, College Choice, College Faculty, College Instruction, Educational Improvement, Higher Education, Quotas, Racial Bias, Researchers, Speeches, Student Attitudes
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Speeches/Meeting Papers; Opinion Papers
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Audience: Policymakers
Language: English
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Note: Adapted from remarks at the Harvard Club of New York (September 14, 1989).