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Affirmative Action

NPR's Claudio Sanchez reports that some key decisions against affirmative action in higher education have stunned educators who've spent the past 25 years working on improving diversity. At a recent meeting of the National Conference of Blacks in Education, many educators say that they're comfortable with the prospect that affirmative action may be scaled back at the nation's colleges and universities, and they're looking for other ways to improve admissions for minorities.

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