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Focuses on a study which reported a number of high schools that are accounted for the entering class in the University of Texas at Austin in 2000 after lawmakers approved a plan to admit the top 10 percent of graduates from every high school in the state in 1996. Comparison on the number of students in the university between 1996 and 2000; One of the criticisms of the class-rank plan.

Reports that students rallied to support affirmative-action programs at various universities in 1998. Low turnout for the event titled `National Days of Action to Defend Affirmative Action'; Largest rally held at the University of California at Berkeley; Comments from Bob Jensen, professor at the University of Texas at Austin.

Reports on a variety of stories from across the United States related to higher education. The chancellor of the University of Texas System deciding not to finance a political-action committee; None of the black applicants to the University of California at San Diego's School of Medicine being accepted; The Idaho State Board of Education denying a grant for a project on gay history; A growth of college-savings plans among middle-income families.

Offers news briefs having to do with higher education. How the University of California Board of Regents was accused of violating the state's open-meeting law in deciding to restrict affirmative action; How the Texas Legislature has approved a constitutional amendment that could increase the funds that the University of Texas receives; How teacher-education students get higher scores on the Praxis II test for teacher licensure than do people who have never enrolled in a teacher-training program; Others.