Class Affirmative Action
All Affirmative Action is an abomination for those who think that people should be treated as individuals, but this would make more sense than basing it on race.
A recent study released by Public Agenda notes that the main reason college students drop out of school is because they have to work.
So The Chronicle of Higher Education posed a series of interesting questions to a group of scholars and experts related to this topic, including: ?Has the time come for an affirmative-action policy based on socioeconomic status??
Richard D. Kahlenberg, a senior fellow at the Century Foundation, told the Chronicle that ?three trends are likely to push the idea of affirmative action for low-income students to the forefront in the next couple of years. ...
?First, the enormous underrepresentation of low-socioeconomic students at selective institutions, always an embarrassment to higher education, is getting worse. ...
?Second, increasing attacks on race-based affirmative action will very likely push universities to put in place class-based programs as an indirect and legally sound way of promoting racial diversity.
