Richard D. Kahlenberg
Articles

The Community College Summit
Richard D. Kahlenberg, The Century Foundation, 10/8/2010 

A Response to Supporters of Legacy Preferences
Richard D. Kahlenberg, The Century Foundation, 10/1/2010 

The Legacy Racket: The Problem With College Admission Preferences For Children Of Alumni
Richard D. Kahlenberg, The Century Foundation, 9/22/2010 

Who Are The Real Education “Reformers”?
Richard D. Kahlenberg, The Century Foundation, 9/17/2010 

Does Affirmative Action Matter?
Richard D. Kahlenberg, The Century Foundation, 7/29/2010 

Ross Douthat and Affirmative Action
Richard D. Kahlenberg, The Century Foundation, 7/22/2010 

White Flight in Higher Education
Richard D. Kahlenberg, The Century Foundation, 6/4/2010 

The Ominous Increase in High Poverty Schools
Richard D. Kahlenberg, The Century Foundation, 5/27/2010 

Rewarding Strivers
Richard D. Kahlenberg, The Century Foundation, 5/24/2010 

Charles Murray Sort of Making Sense?
Richard D. Kahlenberg, The Century Foundation, 5/6/2010 

DOE vs. DOJ on School Integration
Richard D. Kahlenberg, The Century Foundation, 4/20/2010 

Obama’s Affirmative Action Trap
Richard D. Kahlenberg, The Century Foundation, 4/6/2010 

Firing Teachers in Rhode Island
Richard D. Kahlenberg, The Century Foundation, 3/5/2010 

Raleigh’s Innovative Economic Diversity Plan
Richard D. Kahlenberg, The Century Foundation, 3/1/2010 

Obama’s No Child Left Behind Revisions
Richard D. Kahlenberg, The Century Foundation, 2/1/2010 

SOTU and Education
Richard D. Kahlenberg, The Century Foundation, 1/28/2010 

Charter vs. Magnet Schools
Richard D. Kahlenberg, The Century Foundation, 1/8/2010 

The Best and Worst in Education of 2009
Richard D. Kahlenberg, The Century Foundation, 12/21/2009 

Does Obama Believe in School Integration?
Richard D. Kahlenberg, The Century Foundation, 11/17/2009 

Kristof’s Misplaced War on Teacher Unions
Richard D. Kahlenberg, The Century Foundation, 10/15/2009 

Housing Integration in Westchester
Richard D. Kahlenberg, The Century Foundation, 8/12/2009 

The Beginning of the End of Racial Affirmative Action?
Richard D. Kahlenberg, The Century Foundation, 6/30/2009 

Brown v. Board of Education at 55
Richard D. Kahlenberg, The Century Foundation, 5/20/2009 

Obama: Stay Away from Notre Dame’s Commencement
Richard D. Kahlenberg, Steve Shadowen, The Century Foundation, 5/15/2009 

What Obama’s Education Speech Was Missing
Richard D. Kahlenberg, The Century Foundation, 3/10/2009 

A Better Alternative on DC School Vouchers
Richard D. Kahlenberg, The Century Foundation, 3/3/2009 

Eric Holder’s Counterproductive Race Speech
Richard D. Kahlenberg, The Century Foundation, 2/25/2009 

The Problem with Ethnic Charter Schools
Richard D. Kahlenberg, The Century Foundation, 1/15/2009 

The Best and Worst in Education - 2008
Richard D. Kahlenberg, The Century Foundation, 12/22/2008 

Arne Duncan Moves to the National Stage
Richard D. Kahlenberg, The Century Foundation, 12/16/2008 

Ocean Hill-Brownsville at 40
Richard D. Kahlenberg, The Century Foundation, 9/9/2008 

Opening School Choice to the Suburbs
Richard D. Kahlenberg, The Century Foundation, 8/27/2008 

Radical idea: Open the doors of affluent suburban schools to Chicago students
Richard D. Kahlenberg, Chicago Tribune, 8/22/2008 

Brown vs. Board of Education Lives
Richard D. Kahlenberg, The Century Foundation, 7/21/2008 

Charles Moskos, RIP
Richard D. Kahlenberg, The Century Foundation, 6/4/2008 

The New Look of School Integration
Richard D. Kahlenberg, The American Prospect, 6/3/2008 

A Touch of Class
Richard D. Kahlenberg, Guardian Unlimited, 5/23/2008 

Ocean Hill-Brownsville, 40 Years Later
Richard D. Kahlenberg, Chronicle of Higher Education, 4/25/2008 

An Affirmative Action Alternative
Richard D. Kahlenberg, The Century Foundation, 4/16/2008 

Rethinking Charter Schools
Richard D. Kahlenberg, The Century Foundation, 4/4/2008 

The Best and Worst of 2007: Education
Richard D. Kahlenberg, The Century Foundation, 12/26/2007 

Mr. Shanker’s Lesson
Richard D. Kahlenberg, Los Angeles Times, 10/21/2007 

Americanization 101
Richard D. Kahlenberg, New York Times, 8/19/2007 

The New York Times on Economic School Integration
Richard D. Kahlenberg, The Century Foundation, 7/16/2007 

Reinventing Brown v. Board of Education
Richard D. Kahlenberg, The Century Foundation, 7/5/2007 

How To Keep Brown Alive
Richard D. Kahlenberg, Slate, 7/2/2007 

Reviving Brown v. Board of Education
Richard D. Kahlenberg, The Century Foundation, 6/28/2007 

Barack Obama, Tony Jack and Affirmative Action
Richard D. Kahlenberg, The Century Foundation, 5/29/2007 

John Edwards’s Plan to Reduce Economic Segregation
Richard D. Kahlenberg, The Century Foundation, 5/7/2007 

Utah’s School Voucher Folly
Richard D. Kahlenberg, The Century Foundation, 2/22/2007 

The Best and Worst in Education, 2006
Richard D. Kahlenberg, The Century Foundation, 12/21/2006 

Reaching Justice Kennedy
Richard D. Kahlenberg, The Century Foundation, 12/6/2006 

No Child Left Behind’s Impotence on the Achievement Gap
Richard D. Kahlenberg, The Century Foundation, 11/21/2006 

The Price of Admission
Richard D. Kahlenberg, The Century Foundation, 9/27/2006 

Enforcing the No Child Left Behind Act
Richard D. Kahlenberg, The Century Foundation, 7/25/2006 

Find Ways to Merge Two Pasadena Identities
Richard D. Kahlenberg, Pasadena Star News, 6/17/2006 

Universal Preschool in California: Why David Brooks is Wrong
Richard D. Kahlenberg, The Century Foundation, 6/5/2006 

The New Underground Railroad
Richard D. Kahlenberg, Washington Monthly, 5/1/2006 

Integration by Income
Richard D. Kahlenberg, American School Board Journal, 4/1/2006 

Cost Remains a Key Obstacle to College Access
Richard D. Kahlenberg, Chronicle of Higher Education, 3/10/2006 

The Best and Worst in Education, 2005
Richard D. Kahlenberg, The Century Foundation, 12/26/2005 

Breaking out of Old Debates: Raleigh’s Innovative Education Plan
Richard D. Kahlenberg, The Century Foundation, 9/27/2005 

Katrina’s Children
Richard D. Kahlenberg, The Century Foundation, 9/7/2005 

The New BMOC: Economic Diversity
Richard D. Kahlenberg, The Century Foundation, 8/24/2005 

Springtime for Summers
Richard D. Kahlenberg, The Century Foundation, 4/12/2005 

Boolah Moolah
Richard D. Kahlenberg, The Century Foundation, 3/10/2005 

Tuition Troubles
Richard D. Kahlenberg, The Century Foundation, 10/21/2004 

Hard Lessons about Charter Schools
Richard D. Kahlenberg, Bernard Wasow, The Century Foundation, 8/24/2004 

The Bad News and Good News About Brown
Richard D. Kahlenberg, Voices in Urban Education, 8/1/2004 

Brown at 100
Richard D. Kahlenberg, The Century Foundation, 5/17/2004 

Schools of Hard Knocks
Richard D. Kahlenberg, The Century Foundation, 5/3/2004 

Toward Affirmative Action for Economic Diversity
Richard D. Kahlenberg, Chronicle of Higher Education, 3/15/2004 

LBJ’s Forgotten Vision
Richard D. Kahlenberg, The Century Foundation, 1/14/2004 

Class Acts Review of No Excuses: Closing the Racial Gap in Learning
Richard D. Kahlenberg, Washington Post, 11/30/2003 

Howard Dean in Harvard Yard
Richard D. Kahlenberg, The Century Foundation, 11/26/2003 

School Vouchers Hypocrisy
Richard D. Kahlenberg, The Century Foundation, 10/22/2003 

What Makes Schools Work?
Bernard Wasow, Richard D. Kahlenberg, Boston Review, 10/15/2003 

The Conservative Victory in Grutter and Gratz
Richard D. Kahlenberg, Jurist: Legal News & Research, 9/9/2003 

Philosopher or King?
Richard D. Kahlenberg, Education Next, 7/1/2003 

The New Brown Integration by class, not race, can fix schools in poor cities
Richard D. Kahlenberg, Legal Affairs, 5/1/2003 

A Response to Richard Lamm
Richard D. Kahlenberg, The Piton Foundation, 11/1/2002 

The New Educational Divide
Richard D. Kahlenberg, Christian Science Monitor, 10/9/2002 

Socioeconomic School Integration Through Public School Choice: A Progressive Alternative to Vouchers
Richard D. Kahlenberg, Howard Law Journal, 7/1/2002 

Socioeconomic Integration and Magnet Schools
Richard D. Kahlenberg, The Century Foundation, 5/1/2002 

The Whys and Hows of Socioeconomic School Integration
Richard D. Kahlenberg, The Piton Foundation, 5/1/2002 

Review: Good Schools, Good Citizens
Richard D. Kahlenberg, The American Prospect, 3/25/2002 

Remembering Al Shanker Five years after his death, Al Shanker’s tough liberalism looks better than ever.
Richard D. Kahlenberg, Education Week, 2/27/2002 

Radical in the Center
Richard D. Kahlenberg, The American Prospect, 12/3/2001 

Cambridge: Economic Factors in School Integration
Richard D. Kahlenberg, Boston Globe, 12/2/2001 

Socioeconomic School Integration: A Reply to the Responses Is class or race the central inequality in education?
Richard D. Kahlenberg, Poverty & Race Research Action Council, 12/1/2001 

Socioeconomic School Integration
Richard D. Kahlenberg, Poverty & Race Research Action Council, 9/15/2001 

The Fall and Rise of School Segregation
Richard D. Kahlenberg, The American Prospect, 5/21/2001 

A Better Third Way It’s Time For a Liberal Philosophy Focusing On Social Justice and Economic Inequality
Richard D. Kahlenberg, Ruy Teixeira, The Nation, 3/5/2001 

An Unambitious Legacy
Richard D. Kahlenberg, Education Week, 2/21/2001 

Letters - Economic Integration: Do We Have the Will?
Richard D. Kahlenberg, Education Week, 5/10/2000 

Socioeconomic Integration: A Promising Alternative Every child should be able to enjoy the benefits of attending a solidly middle-class school.
Richard D. Kahlenberg, National Association of Elementary School Principals, 5/1/2000 

Promoting Social Cohesion Amid Diversity
Richard D. Kahlenberg, Center for National Policy, 3/1/2000 

Race/Racism: A Wake-Up Call for Liberals
Richard D. Kahlenberg, Poverty & Race Research Action Council, 11/15/1999 

Rewriting School Rules Integrate, But Not by Race
Richard D. Kahlenberg, Washington Post, 11/14/1999 

Broken Contract: A Memoir of Harvard Law School
Richard D. Kahlenberg, University of Massachusetts Press, 11/8/1999 

The Colleges, The Poor, and the SATS
Richard D. Kahlenberg, Washington Post, 9/29/1999 

The Next Time, the Suburbs
Richard D. Kahlenberg, Washington Post, 7/23/1999 

Economic School Desegregation
Richard D. Kahlenberg, Education Week, 3/31/1999 

Class-Based Affirmative Action
Richard D. Kahlenberg, Boston Globe, 1/19/1999 

The Practice Book Review of THE GOOD BLACK, A True Story of Race in America by Paul M. Barrett
Richard D. Kahlenberg, New York Times, 1/3/1999 

Race-Sensitive Admissions in Higher Education: Commentary on How the Supreme Court is Likely to Rule
Richard D. Kahlenberg, Derrick Bell, Richard  Delgado, Jean Stefancic, Michael C. Dorf, Mark V. Tushnet, The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, 1/1/1999 

Letter to the Editor - Income Integration: LaCrosse Shows How
Richard D. Kahlenberg, Education Week, 12/16/1998 

Rethinking Busing
Richard D. Kahlenberg, Intellectual Capital, 9/10/1998 

Review: Bench Marks
Richard D. Kahlenberg, New York Times, 6/14/1998