Affirmative action is on the ropes once again, and deservedly so.
Last week, a federal court struck down an affirmative action plan at the University of Michigan Law School, and two similar cases from Washington and Texas law schools may be on the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. But the problem isn't confined to law schools. But nowhere are racial preferences more dangerous than in medical schools. And now CEO has found evidence that racial preferences are determining who gets into medical school, where the stakes for the public welfare are far higher than in colleges or law schools. Using freedom of information laws, CEO obtained admissions data from publicly funded medical schools across the country and, this week, released a detailed study of how affirmative action operates at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, with more studies to follow.