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In Texas, where race-based admissions at the University of Texas were struck down by the courts in 1996, the state guaranteed admission to the top 10 percent of each public high school--and black admissions at UT rebounded.
But why would a black student who is near the top of his class at a lousy public high school--and therefore guaranteed college admission under the X Percent Solution--leave to go to a much better high school where he's apt to rank in the middle of the class?
That's the much-touted new drama by writers/producers/directors Ed Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz (who is divorced) about two divorced parents in the suburbs who meet cute--while dropping their kids off at school--and date even cuter.