Current legal issue in education

             All over the world, United States of America is acknowledged as "the
             land of opportunity." However, all this time, it has been apparent that
             some Americans give the impression to be short of the opportunities that
             others have, or give the impression to be less capable to receive benefit
             of these opportunities. Particularly, in the American universities, tenured
             male teachers outnumber tenured female teachers by a ratio of 10 to 1. In
             this day and age, approximately no one would ascribe such a disproportion
             to an innate male intellectual dominance. In terms of working out for a
             university education, it has been observed that Americans of African decent
             are lagging a long way behind their white equivalents. In 1983 for
             instance, barely 600 blacks in America achieved over 1200 on the SAT,
             contrasted with 60,000 whites (Thomas, 1994). The figures for black
             Americans outside the educational dominion, on the other hand, are far
             grimmer. More college-age black males are in prison, or are regulars of the
             correctional structure, rather than in school.
             Such differences in "the land of opportunity" have provoked
             sympathetic people to take a variety of actions to endeavor to make things
             more reasonable and identical for members of underprivileged groups.
             Cooperatively, these measures have come to be recognized as "affirmative
             action." They vary from efforts like extensive job advertising to groups
             that are underrepresented in honored positions, to out-and-out quotas
             authorizing that a certain number of positions have got to be set out-of-
             the-way for minorities. In view of the fact that these programs began in
             the mid 1960s, numerous minority accomplishments and success stories can,
             in some measure, be accredited to these affirmative action efforts.
             Legal Structure of Affirmative Ac...

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