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Effects of Affirmative Action after 10 Years in Brazil
As a result of the high court’s decision in June, most colleges and most universities must now consider factors other than race.
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Effects of Affirmative Action after 10 Years in Brazil
The country has a law that permits both racial and economic quotas for its federal or public universities.
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Effects of Affirmative Action after 10 Years in Brazil
Three researchers wrote about the effects of affirmative action in Brazil for the Journal of Economic Surveys
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Effects of Affirmative Action after 10 Years in Brazil
They condensed their findings in a piece for The Conversation, an online publication. Neil Lewis Jr.
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Effects of Affirmative Action after 10 Years in Brazil
of Cornell University in New York state, Inacio Bo of the University of Macau and Rodrigo Zeidan of New York University’s Shanghai campus worked on the article.
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Effects of Affirmative Action after 10 Years in Brazil
They explained the background of affirmative action in Brazil and the kinds of students the policy affects. They say the policy “has proved to be quite beneficial.”
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Effects of Affirmative Action after 10 Years in Brazil
At the time, many people worried that Brazilian students, who were already attending college, would suffer.
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Effects of Affirmative Action after 10 Years in Brazil
They argued that professors would have to lower the level of their teaching in order to connect with a larger number of Black and indigenous students from poor areas.
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Effects of Affirmative Action after 10 Years in Brazil
They said wealthy students with a good early education would leave for private universities. In some cases, the writers noted, wealthy students did go to other universities.
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Effects of Affirmative Action after 10 Years in Brazil
Others said Black high school students in Brazil would not work as hard because they knew the universities were holding places for them. A study showed that this was true for stud…
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Effects of Affirmative Action after 10 Years in Brazil
However, the writers said students in a lower group worked harder because they knew they could continue with their studies.
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Effects of Affirmative Action after 10 Years in Brazil
Overall, they said, the quotas permitted a larger group of minority students to continue their education. Only one of Brazil’s 81 senators voted against the law.
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Effects of Affirmative Action after 10 Years in Brazil
In a story published in 2012, the New York Times quoted Brazil’s current president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, as saying the policy would help some racial groups “make up for lost…
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Effects of Affirmative Action after 10 Years in Brazil
Lula had been president from 2003 to 2010.
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Effects of Affirmative Action after 10 Years in Brazil
The researchers talked about what they considered the difference between Brazil’s quota system and the affirmative action policy in the United States.
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Effects of Affirmative Action after 10 Years in Brazil
In Brazil, at least half of the places at federal universities are held for students who are either poor or from racial minority groups.
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Effects of Affirmative Action after 10 Years in Brazil
In the U.S., quotas have been unlawful for more than 40 years. But universities could use data about race and wealth to decide the best combination of students.
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Effects of Affirmative Action after 10 Years in Brazil
In Brazil, most students, including those from wealthy families, hope to go to federal universities. The schools are both high-quality and cost-free.
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Effects of Affirmative Action after 10 Years in Brazil
One concern about the federal universities, however, is that openings are limited. Some people will not get in and will have to find other schools for higher education.
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Effects of Affirmative Action after 10 Years in Brazil
The researchers said students admitted because of the quotas performed well.
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Effects of Affirmative Action after 10 Years in Brazil
If they lacked learning compared to wealthier students, they learned the necessary skills by graduation.
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Effects of Affirmative Action after 10 Years in Brazil
In addition, some quota students got better grades than the traditional students.
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Effects of Affirmative Action after 10 Years in Brazil
The researchers said not all students from wealthy parts of Brazil with good high schools were guaranteed to do well in their university studies.
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Effects of Affirmative Action after 10 Years in Brazil
When the affirmative action plan came out in Brazil, da Silva said it was hard to find Black doctors, dentists and bank supervisors.
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Effects of Affirmative Action after 10 Years in Brazil
Many students, they said, would not have moved on to higher education if they did not have places set aside at the universities.
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