In the courts and the public square, affirmative action is losing support.

A decision last week by the U.S. Supreme Court advances the movement to end racial preferences in college admissions. Is there an alternative that still assures systematically disadvantaged students have a chance? I consider that question today.

Readers share their views, many of them skeptical, on the newly released state school grades. And an expert in the job placement field gives encouragement to liberal arts graduates that there are jobs out there for them.

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Scott Jackson (right), business service consultant for WorkSource Fulton, helps job seekers with their applications in a mobile career center at a job fair hosted by Goodwill Career Center in Atlanta. (Ziyu Julian Zhu/AJC)

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