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Riding Into The Sunset In A "Post-Racial" World: Lessons In Equal Educational Opportunity And College Admissions Schemes In France And The United States, Kristen Barnes Jan 2012

Riding Into The Sunset In A "Post-Racial" World: Lessons In Equal Educational Opportunity And College Admissions Schemes In France And The United States, Kristen Barnes

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The purpose of this paper is to evaluate and compare two strategies designed to promote ethno-racial inclusion that were initiated in France and the United States in the context of higher education. In particular, I examine the Priority Education Agreements Program or CEP, an innovative affirmative action program which was implemented in 2001 by the Sciences Po, one of France’s elite universities, in relation to the Texas Ten Percent Plan that was established in 1997 in the United States by the State of Texas.

Sections I and II of this paper will provide the historical and social contexts in which …