Diverse Paths To Diversity

Many, perhaps most, preferentialists maintain that racial preferences provide the only path to “diversity,” and many, perhaps most, critics of the Bush Administration’s opposition to preferences complain that it suggests only one alternative, the top X% plans.

That criticism was never correct (the Administration brief mentions other options, as I pointed out here), but it is even less correct now. The Department of Education has just released a 40 page, heavily documented report that, as Assistant Secretary Gerald Reynolds’ letter of transmission puts it, “describes innovative

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