I visited my old high school in the Lee-Miles neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio, not long ago. It was hard to believe that it has been forty-three years since I walked its halls. For the most part, John F. Kennedy High School, a fortress-like brown-brick building devoid of any architectural flair, looks very much as it […]
race
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 inJune/July/August 2014, Magazine, Politics
Why the White Working Class Matters
The bad news: Dems can’t govern without them.
The good news: Blue-collar whites are far more diverse
than during the era of the Reagan Democrats.
Posted inJune/July/August 2014, Magazine, Politics
Beyond Identity Politics
To reach the white working class, promise an economy that “works for everyone.”
Posted inEducation, January/February 2014, K-12, Magazine
Class Conscious
How high schools condition students to accept their lot.
Posted inJanuary/February 2014, Law and Justice, Magazine
Driving While Black
“Stop and frisk” isn’t just a reality in New York City. New data shows how police target African Americans on highways across America.
Posted inEducation, Higher Education, Magazine, November/December 2013
How “Race Neutrality” Can Save Affirmative Action
Americans’ surprising commitment to fairness.
Posted inEducation, Higher Education, Magazine, September/October 2013
Dropouts Tell No Tales
An African American journalist returns to his college alma mater to find out why so many students like him never make it out.
Posted inBooks, Government, July/August 2013, Magazine
What Dr. King Didn’t Say
Misremembering the March on Washington.
Posted inPolitics
Introduction: Race, History, and Obama’s Second Term
In the summer of 2011, under siege from both the left and the right for his efforts to broker a budget deal to avoid a debt default, Barack Obama defended his leadership with a telling historical analogy. He noted that the Emancipation Proclamation, a copy of which hangs on his Oval Office wall, outlawed slavery […]
