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Affirmative Action and Sowell's "Inside American Education" • Part 4

The Genius of Thomas Sowell

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Academic Mismatch of Minority Students

Sole: Affirmative action will lead to the exact same mis matching effect and all the expected negative consequences. If academic mis matching of minority students leads to lower performance results for minorities, what happens next? According to sol this inevitably leads to a rise in double standards in academia. So that institutions can hide the negative effects of affirmative action policies. Sole says this part of the damage is concealed by double standards in grading. Many minority students are helped along academically by what david reesman of harvard has called affirmative grading. This means professors don't flunk them because they're left-handed or have inferiority complexes about their own handedness. These issues need to be addressed if

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