Diversity and the Formation of Elites: France-USA

Sociétés contemporaines
Volume 79, Issue 3, July 2010

Pages: 160
Publisher: Presses de Sciences Po

Page 5 to 17

Diversity and the Formation of Elites: France-USA
Introduction
Daniel Sabbagh, Agnès van Zanten

Page 19 to 39

Affirmative Action and the Texas Top-Ten-Percent Admission Law: Balancing Equity and Access to Higher Education
Marta Tienda, Sigal Alon, Sunny X. Niu

Page 41 to 67

Towards Indirect Affirmative Action?
New Strategies for Promoting “Diversity” in Public Institutions of Higher Education in California (1995–2008)
Daniel Sabbagh

Page 69 to 95

Widening Participation in the “Grandes Ecoles”: Diversifying Elites or Renewing Public Policies in Education?
Agnès van Zanten

Page 97 to 119

Investing in Intelligence
Intellectual Precocity Diagnosis, Educational Dispositions and School Perspectives
Wilfried Lignier
Translated from the French by JPD Systems

Page 121 to 143

The Struggle over Mental Health and Its Responsibility in the French Energy Sector (1985–2008)
Marlène Benquet, Pascal Marichalar, Emmanuel Martin

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