funmudder
April 1st, 2008, 03:17 PM
Does affirmative action work? An explosive study that suggests it does not is pitting the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights against the State Bar of California in a battle over admissions data that could determine once and for all if racial preferences help or hurt minority students.
"Currently only about one in three African-Americans who goes to an American law school passes the bar on the first attempt and a majority never become lawyers at all," says UCLA law professor Richard Sander.
In an article published in the Stanford Law Review, Sander and his research team concluded several thousand would-be black lawyers either dropped out of law school or failed to pass the bar because of affirmative action.
Known as the ‘mismatch’ effect, Sander claims students who are unprepared and whose academic credentials are below the median are admitted to law schools they are unqualified to attend. If those same students instead were to go to less elite or competitive schools, more would graduate, pass the bar and become lawyers.
Link (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,301722,00.html)
You want real equality in looking at prospective students and employees? Remove the questions: race and gender, then have people give their first initial with last name.
Then the ONLY thing people have to go by are your credentials and past work/school history.
Guess that would be too logical tho
"Currently only about one in three African-Americans who goes to an American law school passes the bar on the first attempt and a majority never become lawyers at all," says UCLA law professor Richard Sander.
In an article published in the Stanford Law Review, Sander and his research team concluded several thousand would-be black lawyers either dropped out of law school or failed to pass the bar because of affirmative action.
Known as the ‘mismatch’ effect, Sander claims students who are unprepared and whose academic credentials are below the median are admitted to law schools they are unqualified to attend. If those same students instead were to go to less elite or competitive schools, more would graduate, pass the bar and become lawyers.
Link (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,301722,00.html)
You want real equality in looking at prospective students and employees? Remove the questions: race and gender, then have people give their first initial with last name.
Then the ONLY thing people have to go by are your credentials and past work/school history.
Guess that would be too logical tho