Education Policy Advocate

Terence Pell

1 article 1999

Terence Pell is a legal and education policy advocate who has been involved in issues related to affirmative action and college admissions. He served as president of the Center for Individual Rights, a public interest law firm that challenged racial preferences in higher education. He contributed to The Weekly Standard on the topic of discrimination in college admissions.

DISCRIMINATING COLLEGES

February 8, 1999 · Magazine

IT SEEMS THE EDUCATION ESTABLISHMENT is now prepared to concede that racial preferences in college admissions are really all about discrimination for its own sake. When preferences ended in California and Texas in 1997, educators predicted (mistakenly) that minority enrollment would drop…