Affirmative action is a political tool used to prevent or challenge social inequality for those groups in a position of inferiority, both as a consequence of discrimination being suffered and as a result of past discrimination whose effects are still...

Affirmative action, also referred to as positive and reverse discrimination, describes the deliberate policy of giving preferential treatment to some groups in a society on the grounds that they have hitherto been disadvantaged either by governmental...

The provision of resources to mitigate educational or other disadvantage caused by social and/or economic deprivation. This is often known as compensatory education. The Plowden Report recommended the identification of inner city districts which were...

Granting the minorities of society enhanced access to education and jobs in an attempt to reduce overall discrimination against them. This approach to helping the disadvantaged is deeply resented by the well-qualified applicants who are rejected and by...

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A lawsuit that prompted a 2003 U.S. Supreme Court decision over affirmative action admissions policies at the University of Michigan was settled Wednesday, concluding a nearly decade-old legal battle.The university will pay $10,000 each to plaintiffs Jennifer Gratz and Patrick Hamacher to cover miscellaneous costs,...

A conservative, student-run journal at Tufts university published a satirical Christmas carol that ridiculed black students and campus affirmative action policies, then issued an apology after some students called on the school to stop funding the journal.The carol, entitled, "O Come All Ye Black Folk,"...

Michigan's three top-tier universities can continue using race and gender in admissions and financial aid awards through the current admission cycle, under an agreement proposed Monday.A ballot measure passed Nov. 7 bars public universities and governments from using affirmative action in admissions and hiring. The...

India's Supreme Court suspended a government program Thursday to reserve spots for lower-caste students at the country's top medical, engineering and professional schools _ a plan that has repeatedly prompted widespread protests.The quota system for India's prestigious state-run professional schools was to come into effect...

In 1996 voters in California approved the California Civil Rights Initiative (CCRI), a measure that forbids the use of race, gender, or ethnicity as criteria in state hiring or public university admissions. No longer would businesses and universities be...

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Does affirmative action help protect the law?

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