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Colleges can admit 'diverse' students without racial preferences
Universities can enhance diversity by giving an admissions break to disadvantaged students of all races. It's legal and it's good politics.

Joanne Jacobs
Apr 22 min read
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Dear Colleague: Do what the Ed Department wants -- or else
The Education Department has used "guidance" letters to force states, colleges and districts to spend hundreds of millions of dollars.

Joanne Jacobs
Mar 43 min read
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Asian-American computer whiz sues UC for admissions bias
The University of California is being sued by Asian-American achievers who charge racial discrimination in admissions.

Joanne Jacobs
Feb 231 min read
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'Americans got tired of being ridiculed for values like equality, color-blindness, and responsibility,' and now it's backlash time
The anti-DEI backlash is fierce, because so many people were forced to suppress their real feelings.

Joanne Jacobs
Feb 182 min read
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The true meaning of Christmas
Christmas traditions are worth preserving.

Joanne Jacobs
Dec 24, 20242 min read
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'Diverse' college graduates are less likely to become teachers
Black and brown college graduates are less likely to choose a teaching career and more likely to leave the classroom for other jobs,...

Joanne Jacobs
Dec 13, 20242 min read
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College students are young adults - not fragile children
Stop babying college students and teach them that they're living in a diverse, pluralistic democracy.

Joanne Jacobs
Nov 24, 20242 min read
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Who's truly disadvantaged? Look at single parenting, not race or poverty
Growing up in a single-parent family is a huge disadvantage in life, writes Fordham's Michael Petrilli in Forbes. If racial preferences...

Joanne Jacobs
Oct 25, 20242 min read
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Disadvantaged? Really???
Vice President Kamala Harris, the daughter of two university professors, was admitted to Hastings law school via a program for applicants...

Joanne Jacobs
Oct 24, 20242 min read
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Why did black enrollment fall at Wellesley, but not at Yale?
"Holistic" admissions to selective colleges is a "black box," writes Rick Hess of the American Enterprise Institute. Nobody knows...

Joanne Jacobs
Oct 18, 20242 min read
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DEI at U of Michigan: 'rote incantations of a state religion'
University of Michigan's DEI program has created a "culture of grievance," not inclusion, say students and professors.

Joanne Jacobs
Oct 17, 20242 min read
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Want equity? Teach more math, not less
As a math teacher in the early 2000s, Adrian Mims saw few Black and Hispanic students succeeding in Brooklin (MA) High School's honors...

Joanne Jacobs
Oct 10, 20242 min read
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MIT's new class is 47% Asian as black, Hispanic admissions fall
MIT ended racial preferences and admitted more Asians, slightly fewer whites and significantly fewer Hispanics and blacks.

Joanne Jacobs
Aug 23, 20242 min read
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If minority parents choose a charter, that's not 'resegregation'
Parents should be able to choose a public school that meets their children's academic needs and their family's values, writes Debbie...

Joanne Jacobs
Jun 26, 20242 min read
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Yale wants science profs to 'promote DEI through teaching'
"Diversity" statements are out for job applicants at MIT: Would-professors won't have to pledge their loyalty to Diversity Equity and...

Joanne Jacobs
May 27, 20242 min read
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Odysseus so white
English teachers at Oakland's College Preparatory School, one of the most expensive private schools in California, have "let go" of...

Joanne Jacobs
Feb 23, 20242 min read
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More than ever, college applicants are writing about race
Writing about race is more popular than ever for black, Hispanic and indigenous college applicants, writes Bernard Mokam in the New York...

Joanne Jacobs
Jan 28, 20242 min read
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A professor writes: What I really think about DEI
James Hankins, a Harvard history professor, posts an honest diversity statement addressed to "dear members of Harvard's Faceless...

Joanne Jacobs
Jan 21, 20242 min read
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DEI backlash
In the name of DEI -- diversity, equity and inclusion -- many colleges and universities "have violated their constitutional commitments...

Joanne Jacobs
Jan 15, 20242 min read
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SAT/ACT scores predict success, open doors for 'diverse' students
Want equity? Require college applicants to submit SAT or ACT scores, writes David Leonhardt in the New York Times. The progressives' "war...

Joanne Jacobs
Jan 8, 20242 min read
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