Trump-era investigations are casting doubt on Black achievement. However, educators say the myth of lower standards is not just wrong — but dangerous.
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When the Department of Education announced last month that they would investigate admissions practices at 50 of the nation’s elite colleges and universities, it declared that school DEI policies exclude qualified white and Asian college-bound students from campus.
Implied but not stated in the directive, experts say, is an assumption: that other minority high school seniors who’ve earned seats at top schools probably don’t deserve them — especially if they’re Black.
For Black students, who often have to fight uphill battles just to get accepted into America’s top universities, the assumption that admissions standards have been lowered just for the sake of diversity is not just harmful but false. That’s because the number of Black high school graduates has ticked up in recent years, along with the percentage of Black students who qualify for admission to elite institutions of higher education.
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