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U.S. Must Educate Itself Beyond Affirmative Action

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Since its inception in the 1960s, affirmative action has been constitutionally embattled, emotionally fraught and politically divisive.

Last week’s announcement by the U.S. Census Bureau that births to racial and ethnic minorities in the U.S. now outnumber births to whites promises that the quest for diversity in American institutions won’t be getting any less complicated.