by Richard D. Kahlenberg
“A thoroughly researched and engaging biography”
–Wall Street Journal
“A spirited and readable biography”
–Washington Post
“[A] stirring account”
–Slate
“[An] excellent new biography”
–The American Prospect
“A gripping portrait”
–Publishers Weekly
“Absolutely must reading”
–Eduwonk
“Judicious and engaging”
–The Weekly Standard
"[A] fascinating biography"
–City Journal
“A well-drawn portrait”
–Newsday
“A fine biography [and] vivid portrait”
–Jerusalem Post
“Compelling[]”
–New Leader
“[An] excellent new biography”
–The Washington Times
“A splendid read”
–The Doyle Report
“Impressive[]”
–Democracy Journal
"A Must Read Education Book of the Year"
–American School Board Journal
"Moving to the Radical Center," Huffington Post, September 17, 2008
"How the Left Can Avoid a New Education War," American Prospect, July 9, 2008
"Albert Shanker's Tough Liberalism," American Educator, Summer 2008
"Albert Shanker and the Future of Teacher Unions," Phi Delta Kappan, June 2008
"Ocean Hill-Brownsville: Unleashing American Liberalism," New York Sun, May 8, 2008
"Inequality and Solidarity,"Washington Monthly, April, 2008
"Ocean Hill-Brownsville, 40 Years Later," The Chronicle of Higher Education, April 25, 2008
"The Charter School Idea Turns 20," Education Week, March 26, 2008
“The Right Way to Oust the Wrong Teachers,” Washington Post, November 11, 2007.
“In Defense of Bloomberg's Bribe,” Slate, November 6, 2007.
“Balkanizing Utah's Schools,” Politico, November 1, 2007.
“Mr. Shanker's Lesson,” LA Times, October 21, 2007.
“The Agenda that Saved Public Education,” American Educator, Fall 2007. (cover story)
“No Child Left Behind: What Would Al Think?” Education Week, September 5, 2007.
“A World Without Teacher Unions?” American Prospect Online, September 4, 2007.
“Americanization 101,” New York Times, August 19, 2007.
“Albert Shanker,” in Stephen H. Norwood and Eunice G. Pollack (eds), Encyclopedia of American Jewish History (ABC-CLIO, 2007). (August)
“Taking Teacher Unions to Task,” Washington Post, April 18, 2007.
“Universal Pre-K in California: Why David Brooks is Wrong,” The Century Foundation, June 5, 2006.
“The History of Collective Bargaining Among Teachers,” in Jane Hannaway and Andrew J. Rotherham (eds), Collective Bargaining in Education (Harvard Education Press, 2006). (February)
“Philosopher or King?: Shanker sought to transform teacher unions into a powerful voice for education reform, proposing ideas that were unconventional for a union president,” Education Next, Summer 2003.
“Hire Education – The Strike That Changed New York,” Washington Monthly, January-February, 2003.
“Remembering Al Shanker,” Education Week, February 27, 2002.
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
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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
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The Century Foundation,
3/1/2010
Obama's No Child Left Behind Revisions
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The Century Foundation,
2/1/2010
SOTU and Education
Richard D. Kahlenberg,
The Century Foundation,
1/28/2010
Charter vs. Magnet Schools
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The Century Foundation,
1/8/2010
The Best and Worst in Education of 2009
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The Century Foundation,
12/21/2009
Does Obama Believe in School Integration?
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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
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The Century Foundation,
8/12/2009
The Beginning of the End of Racial Affirmative Action?
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The Century Foundation,
6/30/2009
Brown v. Board of Education at 55
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The Century Foundation,
5/20/2009
Obama: Stay Away from Notre Dame's Commencement
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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
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The American Prospect,
6/3/2008
A Touch of Class
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Guardian Unlimited,
5/23/2008
Ocean Hill-Brownsville, 40 Years Later
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Chronicle of Higher Education,
4/25/2008
An Affirmative Action Alternative
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The Century Foundation,
4/16/2008
Rethinking Charter Schools
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The Century Foundation,
4/4/2008
The Best and Worst of 2007: Education
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The Century Foundation,
12/26/2007
Mr. Shanker's Lesson
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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
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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
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The Century Foundation,
9/27/2005
Katrina's Children
Richard D. Kahlenberg,
The Century Foundation,
9/7/2005
The New BMOC: Economic Diversity
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The Century Foundation,
8/24/2005
Springtime for Summers
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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
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Poverty & Race Research Action Council,
9/15/2001
The Fall and Rise of School Segregation
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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
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Washington Post,
9/29/1999
The Next Time, the Suburbs
Richard D. Kahlenberg,
Washington Post,
7/23/1999
Economic School Desegregation
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Education Week,
3/31/1999
Class-Based Affirmative Action
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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
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Education Week,
12/16/1998
Rethinking Busing
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Intellectual Capital,
9/10/1998
Review: Bench Marks
Richard D. Kahlenberg,
New York Times,
6/14/1998