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• Justices will review racial preference for college (AP)
• Top court to hear university race admissions case (Reuters)
• Affirmative action in college admissions goes back before Supreme Court (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Obama takes tougher stance on higher education (AP)

Justices will review racial preference for college (AP) Posted: 21 Feb 2012 04:17 PM PST AP - The Supreme Court is setting an election-season review of racial preference in college admissions, agreeing Tuesday to consider new limits on the contentious issue of affirmative action programs.

Top court to hear university race admissions case (Reuters) Posted: 21 Feb 2012 01:53 PM PST Reuters - The U.S. Supreme Court said on Tuesday it would decide whether a state university may consider an applicant's race to achieve a more diverse student body, revisiting in an election year a divisive social issue it last addressed nine years ago.

Affirmative action in college admissions goes back before Supreme Court (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 21 Feb 2012 08:44 AM PST The Christian Science Monitor - The US Supreme Court agreed on Tuesday to take up a potential blockbuster case testing the constitutionality of race-based admissions policies at the University of Texas.

Obama takes tougher stance on higher education (AP) Posted: 20 Feb 2012 11:37 PM PST AP - Access to college has been the driving force in federal higher education policy for decades. But the Obama administration is pushing a fundamental agenda shift that aggressively brings a new question into the debate: What are people getting for their money?

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