The Painful Truth About Affirmative Action
Introduction
“The Painful Truth About Affirmative Action” is an editorial published by Richard Sander and Stuart Taylor Jr. in magazine The Atlantic. Sander is a law professor and economist at the University of California- Los Angeles and has published several works studying the effects of racial preferences. Taylor is a contributing editor for National Journal and teaches news media and law at Stanford Law School. The content of the editorial is a criticism of affirmative action in college admissions and how it is inherently unfair and ineffective.
Summary
To begin the persuasive piece, the authors introduce the audience to a concept called “mismatch”. As they defined and explained, mismatch is a problem wherein students get admitted to incredibly selective universities where they would not have been accepted to had it not been for affirmative action, and thus do not perform or fit in as…
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