On higher ground
Subtitle: education and the case for affirmative action
By: Walter Feinberg ; foreword by Julian Bond
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 97
ISBN-13: 9780585368382
Subjects: Discrimination in education; Prevention; Affirmative action programs; Educational equalization; Minorities; Education; Programmes d'action positive; Démocratisation de l'enseignement; Minorités; Éducation; EDUCATION; Educational Policy & Reform; General; Administration; Bildungswesen; Quotierung
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 89-92) and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Julian Bond; title: Ch. 1. Toward a Theory of Affirmative Action. The Political and Economic Climate for the Backlash Against Present Race- and Gender-based Policy. What Is Affirmative Action? A Brief History of Affirmative Action. Affirmative Action and Higher Education. Recent Attacks on Affirmative Action. The Need for a Theory of Affirmative Action. A Sketch of the Central Argument; title: Ch. 2. Markets, Measurement, and Affirmative Action. The Market as a Fair Selector; title: Problems with the Theory. The Problem with the Empirical Evidence: Market Efficiency and Educational Selection. Affirmative Action and Poverty; title: Ch. 3. A Case for a Backward-looking Gender- and Race-based Policy. The Problem: Race-based or Need-based Affirmative Action? Conservative and Liberal Varieties of Need-based Affirmative Action. Some Differences Between the Two Approaches to Affirmative Action. The Preliminary Case for Race- and Gender-based Affirmative Action. Summary; title: Ch. 4. Group Rights and Historical Obligations. Defining Group Rights. Why Affirmative Action Is Confused with a Group Right: The Strategy of Simultaneity. Do Group-based Rights Violate Other People's Individual Rights? Affirmative Action as Addressing Historical Debt. To Whom Is the Debt Owed? A Return to the Question of Group Rights. Summary; title: Ch. 5. Need, Diversity, and Group Variation. A Review of the Argument. Returning to the Role of Need and Diversity. Affirmative Action Should Work Differently for Different Groups. Conclusion.