Affirmative Action is Not Enough To Solve Disparities within the Educational System
Mark Wilson/Getty Images A judge has recently struck down a conservative legal group’s lawsuit challenging the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s affirmative action policies. A win for advocates of such policies, this lawsuit underscores the decades-long fight for equitable and reparational policies in the college admissions process. But it also represents a much larger issue at hand. While affirmative action policies provide a bandaid on inequity in the school sys