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Affirmative action could harm minority students: Study

By Jeremiah Poff
Published July 7, 2022 9:35pm ET
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Affirmative action could harm minority students: Study
Guixue Zhou of North Potomac, Md., left, and Samuel Yan, of Loudoun County, Va., protest against racial quotas during a rally outside the Supreme Court in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2015, as the court hears oral arguments in the Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin affirmative action case. At right is Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., speaking in solidarity with the Asian American Coalition for Education protest. | (Jacquelyn Martin/AP)


A study from a conservative think tank says affirmative action policies have a mixed record in helping minority students and may, in fact, harm the academic prospects of those students in some circumstances.

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