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Orfield, Gary; Jarvie, Danielle – Civil Rights Project - Proyecto Derechos Civiles, 2020
The brief first presents new facts on the extraordinary segregation of Black and Latino students in the state's public schools. Second, it shows that those groups are doubly segregated by race and poverty at the most educationally unsuccessful schools. These children are, on average, from families with far lower income and wealth and with parents…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Equal Education, Affirmative Action, African American Students
Jones, Tiffany – Postsecondary Value Commission, 2021
The value of higher education is complex. There are the economic payoffs for individuals as indicated by higher wages and opportunities in the job market and for society in creating a stronger tax base and greater prosperity for a state or region. But there are also social benefits like the opportunity to foster civic engagement, personal…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Role of Education, Racial Bias, Equal Education
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Poon, Oiyan A.; Segoshi, Megan S.; Tang, Lilianne; Surla, Kristen L.; Nguyen, Caressa; Squire, Dian D. – Harvard Educational Review, 2019
Utilizing a critical raceclass theory of education, OiYan A. Poon and colleagues analyze interviews with Asian Americans who have publicly advocated for or against affirmative action and acknowledged how their understandings of racial capitalism informed their perspectives and actions. Limited research has considered Asian American subjectivity in…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Affirmative Action, Racial Factors, Political Issues
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Tran, Hoang Vu – Critical Questions in Education, 2020
Affirmative action in education is once again in the media and cultural spotlight. The Trump administration, along with a decidedly rightward shift on the Supreme Court, signal a bleak outlook for affirmative action policies in higher education. However, as educators, we can also use this historical moment to have robust and critical conversations…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Social Justice, Social Systems, Ability
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Barnhardt, Cassie L.; Young, Ryan L.; Sheets, Jessica K. E.; Phillips, Carson W.; Parker, Eugene T., III; Reyes, Kimberly – Research in Higher Education, 2017
Using a census sampling, this analysis evaluates the campus structures and practices that are predictive of a campus being affiliated with stakeholder legal advocacy regarding the Fisher Supreme Court affirmative action case of 2013. Findings reveal that a campus utilizing selective admissions operated as a sufficient, but not a necessary,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Stakeholders, College Admission, Selective Admission
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Donnor, Jamel K. – Urban Education, 2021
Despite being academically unqualified for admission to the University of Texas at Austin, Abigail Fisher, a White female, argued that she was not admitted due to the university's diversity policy. In addition to framing postsecondary admissions as a zero-sum phenomenon, Ms. Fisher intentionally frames students of color who are admitted to the…
Descriptors: Race, Critical Theory, Preferences, Educational Policy
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Syamprasad, K. V. – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2019
This article aims to offer a theoretical critique of the propaganda against the affirmative action programmes, as well as to unpack the veil of merit and provide justifications for affirmative action for the underprivileged in Kerala. For this purpose, Bourdieu's concept of cultural capital and its origin would be introduced as the central focus…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Class, Cultural Capital, Affirmative Action
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Squire, Dian D. – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2020
Using a short story fiction counter-narrative, this critical race study examines how faculty of color within higher education and student affairs doctoral-granting programs bring critical epistemologies to their decision-making in the student admissions process and work to decolonize the academy despite neoliberal pressures. Faculty of color…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Race, College Faculty, African American Teachers
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Sanchez, Tarquino; Naranjo, David; Vidal, Jack; Salazar, Diego; Pérez, Cristina; Jaramillo, Marianela – Journal of Technology and Science Education, 2021
The present work analyzes the academic performance of students from at-risk groups from the perspective of Social Network Analysis (SNA), studying the academic and interaction information of 45 students belonging to at-risk groups who attended a pilot socio-academic course during one academic term. This information was used to create a sociogram,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, At Risk Students, Socioeconomic Background, Social Networks
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Riccomini, Fernanda Edileuza; Cirani, Claudia Brito Silva; de Carvalho, Carolina Corrêa; Storopoli, José Eduardo – International Journal of Educational Management, 2021
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to characterize the trends for educational innovation in higher education in Brazil, constructing a conceptual model of innovation trends in the sector. Design/methodology/approach: A preliminary profile online was done with 76 experts in university education, and 17 were contacted for in-depth perceptions.…
Descriptors: Educational Trends, Trend Analysis, Educational Innovation, Foreign Countries
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Baker, Dominique J. – American Educational Research Journal, 2019
Eight states currently have bans on affirmative action, yet little research has focused on the characteristics of states that predict ban adoption. To begin filling this gap in the literature, I conduct discrete-time survival analysis on an aggregated data set of 47 states from 1995 to 2012 to investigate the extent to which various…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, College Admission, Public Colleges, Predictor Variables
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Fontana, Lorenza B. – Journal of Education Policy, 2019
Policy initiatives that seek to account for ethno-cultural differences in education and schooling have become increasingly popular over the past few decades. These include affirmative action measures and bilingual education models. The rationale for the implementation of these policies focuses on their potential to rectify historical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Educational Policy, Inclusion
Hill, Catharine Bond; Kurzweil, Martin; Tobin, Eugene – ITHAKA S+R, 2023
With a decision pending in two lawsuits challenging race-conscious admissions practices at Harvard and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), many observers are predicting that the US Supreme Court will significantly limit, if not completely prohibit, the use of race in college and university admissions. However if the United…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Race, College Admission, Prediction
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Woessner, Matthew C.; Maranto, Robert – International Journal of Educational Reform, 2020
Despite efforts to redress racial grievances, American's most progressive institutional sector, higher education, suffers racial incidents with disturbing frequency. We hypothesize that one explanation lies in the bureaucratization of higher education. Various trends have led to what Benjamin Ginsberg calls "the fall of the faculty" and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Faculty, College Administration, Racial Relations
Mickey-Pabello, David – Civil Rights Project - Proyecto Derechos Civiles, 2020
In November of 1996, California voted and approved Proposition 209 (also known as the California Civil Rights Initiative) by a tally of 54.55% to 45.45%. It is unknown how many of those voters voted for the initiative because the name implied that it was pro-civil rights. Nonetheless, California became the first state to ban the practice of…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, State Legislation, Educational Policy, Diversity
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