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...Winthrop Professor of History Stephan Thernstrom says Harvard students are far more accepting of homosexuality than the American public. Eighty percent of students polled agreed that gays should be allowed to marry. Thernstrom says only 11 percent of the Americans feel the same...
...announced panelists, Abigail Thernstrom, co-author of America in Black and White: One Nation, Indivisible and Nicholas Lemann '76, author of The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy...
Could this ethnic rearrangement be a good thing? Yes, says Abigail Thernstrom, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a leading affirmative-action critic. Thernstrom argues that minorities suffer when affirmative action puts them on campuses that otherwise wouldn't have admitted them. The dropout rate of black U.C. undergraduate students back in the days of affirmative action was 42%--twice the rate of whites. That stands to reason, Thernstrom says, because blacks and Hispanics were forced to compete against whites and Asians who came to the same schools with higher test scores and grade-point averages. "As students...
...education for all children (see the accompanying story). The racial gap in academic achievement starts in the earliest grades and grows worse. Among California 10th-graders, 88% of Asians and 76% of whites go on to graduate, but only 61% of blacks and 58% of Hispanics do. Thernstrom and civil rights groups both say the early grades are where the most work needs to be done...
...Thernstrom said that while she doesn't agree with OCR's logic, she can understand why the office chose to focus on standardize testing...