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Supreme Court Bans Affirmative Action in College Admissions

WSJ What’s News

The Wall Street Journal

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44K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2023

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

P.M. Edition for June 29. The Supreme Court has ruled that affirmative action is unconstitutional, forcing changes to college admissions. Supreme Court correspondent Jess Bravin explains the ruling and what it means for higher education and students. Plus, air travel leading up to the holiday weekend has been a bit messy. Airlines and air travel reporter Alison Sider provides an update. Annmarie Fertoli hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The Supreme Court rules that affirmative action is unconstitutional. What the landmark ruling

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means for higher education. For many years there's been an argument that admissions officers

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should be considering socioeconomic status and the particular challenges one faces when growing

1:06.0

up in poverty or away from any of the resources that better off students and families have.

1:11.7

So there's certainly going to be a renewed emphasis on many schools to look at that type of obstacle.

1:17.4

Plus we'll check in on air travel heading into the holiday weekend and Virgin Galactic launches

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its first commercial space flight. It's Thursday, June 29th. I'm Amary for Tolley for the Wall Street

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Journal. This is the PM edition of What's News, the top headlines and business stories that

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moved the world today.

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In an historic ruling, the Supreme Court today struck down affirmative action.

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Barring consideration of race in college admissions and eliminating a principal tool that the

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nation's most selective schools have used for decades to diversify their campuses. The 6-3 decision

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will force major changes to college admissions. Here now to talk about the ruling is our Supreme Court

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