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Opinion: Does Affirmative Action Help College Students?

Dec 24th 2010 – 5:00AM
Glen Cooper, Getty Images

Glen Cooper, Getty Images

All across the country, high school seniors are gearing up to apply to college. Many of them assume that the best thing they can do to ensure a bright future is to attend the most prestigious school that has accepted them -- even if their race, athletic prowess or rich uncle helped them get in. But according to a December...

Background on u s commission on civil rights

The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights is historically a bipartisan, independent commission of the U.S. federal government, created in 1957, that is charged with the responsibility for investigating, reporting on, and making recommendations concerning civil rights issues that face the nation.

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