Mismatch
by Richard Sander, Stuart Taylor Jr. · first published 2012
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Argues that affirmative action actually harms minority students and that the movement started in the late 1960s is only a symbolic change that has become mired in posturing, concealment, and pork-barrel earmarks.
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…assumption has been studied. Evidence says that getting into a school you are not prepared for results in worse outcomes than getting into a worse school that you are prepared for. Read http://www.amazon.com/Mismatch-Affirmative-Students-Intended... if you want to see some of that evidence. The question that I have is whether getting underprepared by highly able students into a good school AND giving sufficient assistance…
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