Office of Civil Rights: No Evidence of Anti-Asian Discrimination in Princeton Admissions
The US Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has concluded an investigation into admissions practices at Princeton University. The…
Category: Affirmative Action
Affirmative Action in China and the US: Chapter 1 | #ReappropriateReads
My mom and I have never really had the kind of relationship where we talked extensively about politics. However, one…
Affirmative Action in China and the US: Introduction | #ReappropriateReads
About six months ago, I was reading Frank Wu’s Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White, and I commented…
Dept. of Education Dismisses Complaint Filed Against Harvard By anti-Affirmative Action Asian American Groups
In a completely unsurprising turn of events, the Department of Education yesterday dismissed an administrative complaint filed in May against…
College Admissions is Not a Zero-Sum Game | #Edu4All
The affirmative action debate threatens to become the single defining issue of the Asian American electorate in the coming cycle, with…
The High Cost of High Stakes Testing
Over the weekend, 16-year-old Mira Hu went missing in San Marino, California. Hu — a student at San Marino High School…
Espenshade: Data are not Proof of anti-Asian Discrimination | #Edu4All
Thomas Espenshade Since the publication in 2009 of his influential study (with co-author Alexandria Walton Radford) on admission patterns in…
Asian American US Civil Rights Commissioners Issue Statement on Harvard Affirmative Action Complaint | #Edu4All
Today, a group of between 40 and 50 Asian American organizations will hold two coordinated press conferences in Washington DC and…
135+ AANHPI Organizations Come Together In Support of Affirmative Action | #Edu4All
Last year, California was poised to return affirmative action to the state’s institutions of higher education via a state constitutional amendment…
Mindy Kaling’s Brother Donned Blackface for 2 years in Twisted, Racist “Experiment”
(H/T M. Holt) Did y’all know Mindy Kaling had a brother? Yeah, neither did I. Turns out that the star…
NYC’s High-Stakes Testing for Elite Public Schools Is Not Helping Poor Asians Either
I’ve been writing in support of affirmative action in higher education for a few years now; and, with news that…
Do demographic data support lower admission rates for Asian applicants to Harvard? Maybe not. | #IAmNotYourWedge
Last week, I posted a surprising finding with regard to the evidence — or lack thereof — of an anti-Asian…