The classroom is where poor and middle-class kids should meet — to the benefit of both.
Richard D. Kahlenberg
Richard D. Kahlenberg, a senior fellow at The Century Foundation, is author or editor of 17 books. He is working on a book about housing segregation.
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Obama: Stay Away From Notre Dame’s Commencement
Abortion has nothing to do with it. A progressive president shouldn’t support an institution that reserves 25 percent of its admissions seats for legacies.
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How the Left Can Avoid a New Education War
A battle is brewing between portions of the civil-rights community and teacher unions over the future of liberal education policy.
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The New Look of School Integration
A bad Supreme Court decision overturning race-based integration programs in Louisville, KY, and Seattle, WA, has produced a positive result. A new initiative in Louisville does something even better for children — it integrates them by class.
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A World Without Teacher Unions?
Despite the myriad criticisms of teacher unions, their abolition would be a huge loss for supporters of public education — and for the American labor movement as a whole.
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Schools of Hard Knocks
The fights over education — school vouchers, the No Child Left Behind Act, affirmative action, and access to higher education — resonate deeply with people because they are literally fights over the American dream. Americans used to be able to move up economically with a high-school degree and a blue-collar, unionized job, and their kids […]
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Good Schools, Good Citizens
Making Good Citizens: Education and Civil Society Edited by Diane Ravitch and Joseph P. Viteritti. Yale University Press, 358 pages, $35.00 The contentious debate over whether public funds should support private schools revolves around a central paradox: Most Americans believe that private schools do a somewhat better job of promoting academic achievement than public schools, […]
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Radical in the Center
The Radical Center: The Future of American Politics By Ted Halstead andMichael Lind. Doubleday, 272 pages, $24.95 The Next Agenda: Blueprint for a New Progressive Movement Edited byRobert L.Borosage and Roger Hickey. Westview, 386 pages, $18.00 How the Left Can Win Arguments and Influence People: A Tactical Manual forPragmatic Progressives By John K. Wilson. New […]
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Labor Organizing as a Civil Right
H ere is a Labor Day idea. Why not make the right to join a union a basic civil right? In theory the Wagner Act gives workers the right to freely vote in a union, but in practice the price to employers for violating the law is small. Employers who retaliate by firing workers are […]
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The Fall and Rise of School Segregation
Brown v. Board of Education: A Civil Rights Milestone and Its Troubled Legacy, James T. Patterson. Oxford University Press, 285 pages, $27.50. What are we to think of Brown v. Board of Education nearly a half-century after the Supreme Court handed down the decision? On the one hand, the momentous ruling of May 17, 1954, […]
