Civil Rights
Dec. 29, 2004
Diverse Solutions to Admissions Would Provide Better Social Outcome
The reaction to UCLA professor Richard H. Sander's recent study of preferential university admission is freighted with more emotion and controversy than makes for sober public debate. The reason is an unchallenged utopianism common to those on both sides of the issue. The utopianism, not the threat of faulty social science, threatens good public policy.
Robert L. Bastian Jr.
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Whittier Law School
The reaction to UCLA professor Richard H. Sander's recent study of preferential university admission is freighted with more emotion and controversy than makes for sober public debate. The reason is an unchallenged utopianism common to those on both sides of the issue. The utopianism, not the threat of faulty social science, threatens good public policy.
In his research results, to be published soon in the Stanford Law Review, Sander conc...
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