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

The Genius of Thomas Sowell

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The Miss Matching Effect

The miss matching effect is the best way to explain her experience at pen loa, that black students there, admitted under affirmative action, are clustered in the bottom third of her classes. When i was in high school back in the 19 seventies, i fell in love with a canadian rock band called rush. So it depends on which which youre holding is your standard? The standard is that blacks haven't caught up with whites. But what whites? How whites haven't stood still? I'd like to end this episode with a personal story, a poem and a song. This last clip is very short, just a few seconds. It's from a 19 84 conversation with tony

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