Like the president whom Scaramucci would go on to serve, getting rich was the goal, and winning was everything.
Richard D. Kahlenberg
Richard D. Kahlenberg is Director of the American Identity Project at the Progressive Policy Institute and author of Class Matters: The Fight to Get Beyond Race Preferences, Reduce Inequality, and Build Real Diversity at America's Colleges.
Posted inBooks, June/July/August 2017, Magazine
Why Segregated Neighborhoods Persist
The long historical reach of racial housing policy.
Posted inPolitics
How the Legal Victory on Affirmative Action Undermines the Progressive Coalition
The University of Texas’ policies make it harder to build an enduring cross-racial class-based coalition in American politics.
Posted inBooks, Education, Higher Education, Magazine, March/April/May 2016
Racial Diversity Without Racial Preferences
The growing case for class-based affirmative action in college admissions.
Posted inEconomy, June/July/August 2015, Magazine
Immobile in America
Robert Putnam marshals the evidence that class is eclipsing race as our central source of inequality, and killing the American Dream.
Posted inBooks, Education, June/July/August 2014, K-12, Magazine
Making School Choice Work
Two D.C. schools, a traditional public and a nonunionized charter, are experimenting with socioeconomic integration.
Posted inEducation, January/February 2014, K-12, Magazine
Class Conscious
How high schools condition students to accept their lot.
Posted inBooks, Education, July/August 2013, K-12, Magazine
Union City Blues
How a poor New Jersey town and its teacher’s unions turned around its schools.
Posted inEducation, Higher Education
Why Everyone Is Wrong about Fisher vs. University of Texas
In 1978, when the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a racial quota system at the University of California at Davis Medical School and ordered a white student, Allan Bakke, admitted, many civil rights leaders were furious. As Randall Kennedy notes, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, called for a demonstration, and William T. Coleman, the chair of […]
Posted inBooks, Education, Higher Education, Magazine, May/June 2013
Profs in the Cloud
The perils and promise of online learning.
