Mismatch: How Affirmative Action Hurts Students It's Intended to Help, and Why Universities Won't Admit It

Synopsis

Argues That Affirmative Action Actually Harms Minority Students And That The Movement Started In The Late 1960s Is Only A Symbolic Change That Has Become Mired In Posturing, Concealment, And Pork-barrel Earmarks. The Idea Of Mismatch And Why It Matters -- A Primer On Affirmative Action -- The Discovery Of The Mismatch Effect -- Law School Mismatch -- The Debate On Law School Mismatch -- The Breadth Of Mismatch -- Proposition 209: The High Road And The Low Road -- The Warming Effect -- Mismatch And The Swelling Ranks Of Graduates -- The Hydra Of Preferences: The Evasion Of Prop 209 At The University Of California -- Why Academics Avoid Honest Debate About Affirmative Action -- Media, Politics, And The Accountability Void -- The Supreme Court: Rewarding Opacity -- The George Mason Affair -- Transparency And The California Bar Affair -- Class, Race, And The Targeting Of Preferences -- Closing The Test Score Gap: Better Parenting And K-12 Education. Richard Sander, Stuart Taylor, Jr. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 291-302) And Index.