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Joanne Jacobs

Ivy dreams, but what's realistic?

"Safe to say Harvard is out," Demar Goodman, who's black, told a friend when the U.S. Supreme Court rejected race-based college...

Joanne Jacobs

Educate the 99%, who got no help from affirmative action

"Affirmative action," a euphemism for racial preferences, "is a misguided, discriminatory policy whose end is long overdue," writes...

Joanne Jacobs

SCOTUS: Universities can admit on 'challenges bested,' but not on skin color

Racial preferences in college admissions are unconstitutional, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled, striking down affirmative action plans...

Joanne Jacobs

Race-based affirmative action isn't popular

Half of adults disapprove of colleges considering race and ethnicity in admissions, while one third approve and the rest are unsure,...

Joanne Jacobs

America is not black and white any more

Affirmative action was created at a time when most Americans belonged to a white majority or a black minority, writes Megan McArdle in...

Joanne Jacobs

Diversity on trial

Diversity is a "fig leaf" for elite colleges' desire to discriminate on the basis of race, says linguist John McWhorter in a New York...

Joanne Jacobs

What will replace racial preferences in college admissions?

Based on yesterday's oral arguments, the U.S. Supreme Court's conservative majority appears likely to reject race-based affirmative...

Joanne Jacobs

63% say 'no' to racial preferences in college admissions

Sixty-three percent of Americans say colleges shouldn't consider race in admissions, according to a Washington Post poll. Blacks are...