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Direct linkBoykin, Tiffany Fountaine; Palmer, Robert T. – Journal of Negro Education, 2016
The racial diversification of America's higher education system has been at the forefront of legal argument for the last seventy-five years. Ground-breaking decisions birthed the inclusion of affirmative action policies in higher education after the enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. In recent years, both the utility and constitutionality…
Descriptors: School Segregation, Racial Segregation, Affirmative Action, Higher Education
Orfield, Gary – Educational Researcher, 2013
Good research does not mean good policy, but policy or legal conclusions that rely on false assumptions are certain to be bad. When the rights of U.S. students of color are at stake, the Supreme Courts need the best research findings the country can offer. The U.S. Constitution contains sweeping and undefined terms. Reaching a conclusion about the…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Civil Rights, Court Litigation, Courts
