Striking Down Affirmative Action Hurts All of Us
Every spring I relive the fever dream of the college admissions cycle. “Didn’t you hear?” My mom will tell me…
Tag: Harvard
Department of Justice Demands Harvard Admissions Records in Affirmative Action Investigation
Spurred by a complaint lodged by conservative anti-affirmative action Asian American groups, the Department of Justice launched an investigation into…
The New York Times Doubles Down On Its Erasure of AAPI Student Victims of Suicide
When we were freshmen first entering Cornell, an older student told Snoopy in a dubious effort to introduce us to the…
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…
Asian American Student Suicide Rate at MIT is Quadruple the National Average
Regular readers of this blog will know that mental health, depression and suicide within the Asian American community is a topic…
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…
Do enrollment data really show a cap quota against Asians at Harvard? Maybe not. | #IAmNotYourWedge
There is an extremely popular New York Times infographic that Asian American opponents of affirmative action often share to suggest that…
#IAmNotYourWedge: Lawsuits against Harvard & UNC assert anti-Asian discrimination in admissions
On Monday, a newly formed group called Students for Fair Admissions which was created by Edward Blum — a Republican…