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The Supreme Court's affirmative action ruling.

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The Disadvantages of Affirmative Action

Sandra Day O'Connor wrote 20 years ago about the need to sunset affirmative action. She was prescient, she says: It's clear colleges have an interest in diversifying their campuses. But diversity should not primarily rest on race, he writes. Schools shouldn't simply stop considering race as a basis for admissions, but instead consider economic and wealth diversity among its student body.

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