THE MYTH THAT PREFERENTIAL COLLEGE ADMISSIONS CREATE HIGH BLACK-STUDENT DROPOUT RATES

Authors
CROSS TL
Citation
Tl. Cross, THE MYTH THAT PREFERENTIAL COLLEGE ADMISSIONS CREATE HIGH BLACK-STUDENT DROPOUT RATES, The Journal of blacks in higher education, (1), 1993, pp. 71-74
Citations number
NO
Journal title
The Journal of blacks in higher education → ACNP
ISSN journal
10773711
Issue
1
Year of publication
1993
Pages
71 - 74
Database
ISI
SICI code
1077-3711(1993):1<71:TMTPCA>2.0.ZU;2-T
Abstract
With an almost perverse ingenuity, education conservatives keep produc ing new arguments against preferential college admissions for African Americans. Some of these contentions are sound; some are flawed. The n ewest one seems unqualifiedly wrong and its widespread assertion in di stinctly harmful to the educational aspirations of many young blacks.