It’s class, not race. And we know how to solve it.
Carl Chancellor and Richard D. Kahlenberg
Carl Chancellor and Richard D. Kahlenberg collaborated on this piece. Chancellor is editorial director at the Center for American Progress. For more than twenty years he was a reporter and columnist for the Knight-Ridder news service and its flagship paper the Akron Beacon Journal, where he won a Pulitzer Prize. Kahlenberg is a senior fellow at the Century Foundation, the coauthor (with Halley Potter) of A Smarter Charter: Finding What Works for Charter Schools and Public Education, and the editor of The Future of School Integration: Socioeconomic Diversity as an Education Reform Strategy.