affirmative action programs
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classroom environment
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multicultural education
school desegregation
student diversity
teaching methods
U.S. universities and colleges
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- ISBN 9781891792021
- Weight: 431g
- Publication Date: 30 Jan 2001
- Publisher: Harvard Educational Publishing Group
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In the courts and in referenda campaigns, affirmative action in college admissions is under full-scale attack. Though it was designed to help resolve a variety of serious racial problems, affirmative action's survival may turn on just one question--whether or not the educational value of diversity is sufficiently compelling to justify consideration of race as a factor in deciding whom to admit to colleges and universities. Diversity Challenged is designed to address that question. This book explores what is known about how increasing minority enrollment changes and enriches the educational process. In chapter after chapter, researchers and policymakers discuss substantial developing evidence showing that diversity of students can and usually does produce a broader educational experience, both in traditional learning and in preparing for jobs, professions, and effective citizenship in a multiracial democracy. The evidence also suggests that such benefits can be significantly increased by appropriate leadership and support on campus. Diversity may be challenged on college campuses today, but the research and evidence in this book shows how diversity works. —From the Introduction by Gary Orfield
Gary Orfield is a professor of education, law, political science and urban planning, and co-director of the Civil Rights Project at the University of California, Los Angeles.
