Richard D. Kahlenberg, a senior fellow at The Century Foundation, is author of All Together Now: Creating Middle-Class Schools through Public School Choice (Brookings Press, 2001) and the coauthor (with Halley Potter) of A Smarter Charter: Finding What Works for Charter Schools and Public Education (Teachers College Press, 2014).
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Taking on Class and Racial Discrimination in Housing
Cory Booker’s big idea to rein in exclusionary zoning Read more
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Reviving the Fair Housing Act at 50
New efforts in progressive states focus on affordability—which would also diminish segregation. Read more
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Acting Education Secretary Champions Economic, Racial Integration
Acting Education Secretary John B. King has signaled that racial and socioeconomic integration will now take center stage in federal education policy. Read more
The Class-Based Future of Affirmative Action
Progressives must move on from the idea of race-based admissions policies. Read more
The Affirmative Action Trap
Obama is weighing in on the University of Texas's affirmative action policy, but it may be politically dangerous for him to do so. Read more
Can Separate Be Equal?
The classroom is where poor and middle-class kids should meet -- to the benefit of both. Read more
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. Read more
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. Read more
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. Read more
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. Read more
