Trends in Ed:The Unknown Victim  Submitted by Fred Rossoff on
Fri, 02/03/2012 - 6:04pm. Fred Rossoff's picture  Yesterday
Bloomberg published an article by the Physicist Stephen Hsu
calling for more transparency in the college admissions process.
Hsu takes the opportunity provided by a recent investigation by
the U.S. Department of Education into anti-Asian discrimination
in undergraduate admissions by Harvard and Princeton to argue
that we won’t be able to get a good sense of whether or not
discrimination is occurring, particularly as most colleges use
“holistic admissions,” without a general commitment to
transparency by the higher education community.  “It’s a common
belief among Asian-American families that their children are
held to higher academic standards than college applicants from
other ethnic groups,” Hsu claims, but then goes on to make an
argument against using race as a factor in admissions,
regardless of whether or not Asian-Americans are, in fact, being
discriminated against: “It is terrible