Kenneth J. Cooper
WASHINGTON — As the Supreme Court prepares to hear yet another challenge to the consideration of race or ethnicity in college admissions, civil rights lawyers and educators are sharpening new arguments to defend affirmative action or defuse the issue.
Within the next year, the court will decide a federal lawsuit that contests the admission of 20 percent of University of Texas applicants through individual evaluations that consider race as one factor of eligibility. The other 80 percent of the flagship system’s students are admitted because they graduated in the top 10 percent of their high school class.
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