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The Trump administration's Department of Justice reportedly conducted investigations to end affirmative action programs for racial minorities in college admissions. [142] [143] In a 2019 Pew Research Center poll, 73 percent of a representative sample of Americans said that race or ethnicity should not be a factor in college admissions. [144]
The racial achievement gap in the United States refers to disparities in educational achievement between differing ethnic/racial groups. [1] It manifests itself in a variety of ways: African-American and Hispanic students are more likely to earn lower grades, score lower on standardized tests, drop out of high school, and they are less likely to enter and complete college than whites, while ...
Poor students are behind in verbal memory, vocabulary, math, and reading achievement and have more behavior problems. [13] This leads to their placement in different level classes that track them. [14] These courses almost always demand less from their students, creating a group that is conditioned to lack educational drive. [7]
A 2021 research paper cited numerous barriers that Black and Hispanic high school students encounter as they try to make their way: “counselors who encourage or discourage students from taking ...
Schools do rescind admission if students have been dishonest in their application, [202] [203] [204] have conducted themselves in a way deemed to be inconsistent with the values of the school, [205] [206] or do not heed warnings of poor academic performance; for example, one hundred high school applicants accepted to Texas Christian University ...
It came from college admission videos on social media. I don’t mean videos on essay writing tips, standardized test study hacks or the self-taped, quasi interviews attached to some applications.
Good morning! Employees are second-guessing whether a bachelor's degree is worth the cost, according to a new survey, shared exclusively with Fortune, of over 3,000 U.S., U.K., and Australian ...
Plaintiffs Abigail Noel Fisher and Rachel Multer Michalewicz applied to the University of Texas at Austin in 2008 and were denied admission. The two women, both white, filed suit, alleging that the university had discriminated against them on the basis of their race in violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. [4]