NewsPronto

 
Men's Weekly

.

USA Conversation

The Conversation USA

The Conversation USA

The missing elements in the debate about affirmative action and Asian-American students

  • Written by Michele S. Moses, Professor of Educational Foundations, Policy, and Practice, University of Colorado
imageProtest against racial quotas during a rally outside the Supreme Court in Washington in 2015.AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin

Media reports have stated that the Justice Department under President Donald Trump is planning to investigate a complaint of discrimination against Harvard University brought by a coalition of Asian-American groups.

From our...

Read more: The missing elements in the debate about affirmative action and Asian-American students

More Articles ...

  1. Rural America: Where Sam Shepard's roots ran deepest
  2. How affordable housing can chip away at residential segregation
  3. Heat waves threaten city dwellers, especially minorities and the poor
  4. Explaining 'Rakshabandan' – a Hindu festival that celebrates the brother-sister bond
  5. Why Detroit exploded in the summer of 1967
  6. What does choice mean when it comes to health care?
  7. Misleading statements on Russia meeting recall Clinton's impeachment
  8. When the sun goes dark: 5 questions answered about the solar eclipse
  9. Watching children learn how to lie
  10. If we keep subsidizing wind, will the cost of wind energy go down?
  11. Learning new tricks from sea sponges, nature's most unlikely civil engineers
  12. How Greece could escape debtors' prison – if Europe opens the door
  13. Imagining Russia post-Putin
  14. One way to promote green infrastructure in your city
  15. Why shifting regulatory power to the states won't improve the environment
  16. How welfare's work requirements can deepen and prolong poverty: Rose's story
  17. Why the creators of '13 Reasons Why' should pay attention to the spike in suicide-related Google searches
  18. Soundscapes in the past: Adding a new dimension to our archaeological picture of ancient cultures
  19. How hot weather – and climate change – affect airline flights
  20. Inside the fight against malware attacks
  21. This math puzzle will help you plan your next party
  22. The true failure of foreign language instruction
  23. A trans soldier in the ancient Roman army?
  24. Henry David Thoreau’s views of 19th-century media resonate today
  25. Facing the threat from North Korea: 5 essential reads
  26. Is your drinking water safe? Here's how you can find out
  27. A big hurdle do-good companies face
  28. Are State Department cuts a major setback for genocide prevention?
  29. When do moviegoers become pilgrims?
  30. Welfare as we know it now: 6 questions answered
  31. Creating a high-speed internet lane for emergency situations
  32. Concussions and CTE: More complicated than even the experts know
  33. Why you may not need all those days of antibiotics
  34. Is Congress' plan to save Puerto Rico working?
  35. Nutrient pollution: Voluntary steps are failing to shrink algae blooms and dead zones
  36. The backstory behind the unions that bought a Chicago Sun-Times stake
  37. Who becomes a saint in the Catholic Church, and is that changing?
  38. Bridges and roads as important to your health as what's in your medicine cabinet
  39. Trump isn't letting Obamacare die; he's trying to kill it
  40. Why crowds aren’t always wise: Lessons from mini-flash crashes on Wall Street
  41. Editing human embryos with CRISPR is moving ahead – now's the time to work out the ethics
  42. Measuring up US infrastructure against other countries
  43. Data science can help us fight human trafficking
  44. Why a 2,500-year-old Hebrew poem still matters
  45. Storing data in DNA brings nature into the digital universe
  46. Thinking like an economist can make your next trip abroad cheaper
  47. Reviving the war on drugs will further harm police-community relations
  48. What marsupials taught us about embryo implantation could help women using IVF
  49. To restore our soils, feed the microbes
  50. The D.A.R.E. Sessions wants is better than D.A.R.E.