BOOKS & SELECTED ARTICLES
Richard Kahlenberg is the author or editor of these 18 books:
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2019
2014
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2012
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1996
1992
He is the author of hundreds of articles in dozens of publications. Here is a selection:
Selected op-eds from the New York Times
“Americanization 101,” August 19, 2007
“What Do School Tests Measure? The Problem for Low-Income Students,” August 3, 2009
“The Push-Back on Charter Schools: Missing - The Teacher’s Voice,” March 14, 2010
“Elite Colleges, or Colleges for the Elite?” September 29, 2010
“Newark Can Pay Middle-Class Suburbs to be Partners,” November 10, 2010
“Experience and Trust Helps in the Classroom and the Union Hall,” November 11, 2010
“Yes, College Choice Makes A Difference,” November 30, 2010
“Stronger Schools With an Income Mix,” January 26, 2011
“A Bipartisan Assault on Teachers,” March 6, 2011
“Affirmative Action for the Rich,” May 10, 2013
“Public Schools Have a Public Purpose,” January 24, 2012
“A Civil Right to Unionize,” February 9, 2012.
“Integrating Rich and Poor Matters Most,” May 21, 2012
“Legacy Admissions Favor Wealth Over Merit,” May 13, 2013
“Addressing the Economic Divide Is Better than Race-Based Affirmative Action,” June 25, 2013
“We Need Civil Rights for the Poor,” December 13, 2013
“Integrate Schools by Economic Class,” February 9, 2014
“Class-based Affirmative Action Works,” April 27, 2014
“Elite, Separate, Unequal,” June 22, 2014
“The Original Charter School Vision,” August 30, 2014
“Making Top Colleges Less Aristocratic and More Meritocratic,” September 12, 2014
“Student Data is A Powerful Force for Equity,” September 24, 2014
“Don’t Misunderstand How Charter Schools Succeed,” December 10, 2014
“Strong Unions, Strong Democracy,” January 12, 2016
“The Walls We Won’t Tear Down,” August 3, 2017
“The Bobby Kennedy Pathway,” March 16, 2018
“A School Strike That Never Quite Ended: The struggle over who should teach in the Ocean Hill-Brownsville district of Brooklyn 50 years ago changed the trajectory of modern liberalism,” November 17, 2018
“The Real College Scandal: We skimp on students who need the most,” April 25, 2019
“The ‘New Redlining’ Is Deciding Who Lives in Your Neighborhood: If you care about social justice, you have to care about zoning” April 19, 2021
“How to Fix College Admissions Now: Focus on Class, Not Race,” July 5, 2023
Selected op-eds from the Washington Post
“Bob Dole’s Colorblind Injustice,” June 2, 1996
“A Sensible Approach to Affirmative Action,” December 2, 1996
“Next Time, the Suburbs,” July 23, 1999
“The Colleges, the Poor, and the SATs” September 21, 1999
“Rewriting School Rules,” November 14, 1999
“This School Deserves a Second Chance,” September 9, 2001
“Affirmative Action: There’s a Third Way,” March 31, 2003
“Low-income students and KIPP charter schools,” June 11, 2011
“Do self-selection and attrition matter in KIPP schools?” June 14, 2011
“What tea party defeat in Wake County means for schools,” October 20, 2011
“2011: Best and worst in education,” December 23, 2011
“How to attack the growing educational gap between rich and poor,” February 10, 2012
“On Charles Murray, the black lawyer’s son, the white plumber’s son and college admissions,” March 8, 2012
“How zoning policies affect student achievement,” April 22, 2012
“Why the right to form a union should be a civil right,” August 31, 2012
“Why not an income-based affirmative action?” November 8, 2012
“Race v. class in college admissions: A false dichotomy or not?” June 15, 2013
“How D.C. schools can ward off the ‘Big Flip,’” January 24, 2014
“Education Department changes school lottery rules,” January 29, 2014
“An opening for Montgomery’s schools to lead the way on opportunity for all” April 25, 2014
“Why wealthy D.C. suburb shouldn’t reverse socioeconomic school integration,” March 28, 2016
“To really integrate schools, focus on wealth, not race,” June 7, 2016
“Yes, the Republican tax bill would help rich parents send their kids to private school,” November 8, 2017
“New York City should set ambitious diversity goals for public schools: New Report by panel commissioned by mayor,” February 12, 2019
"NYC school diversity panel recommends ending gifted programs in public schools. One member explains the surprising decision,” August 27, 2019
Selected op-eds from the Wall Street Journal
“Dishonest Defenders of Racial Preference,” September 13, 1996
“Should Colleges Consider Legacies in the Admissions Process? No: It Hurts the Deserving,” July 9, 2012
“A Liberal Critique of Racial Preferences: Programs to increase diversity in higher education should be based primarily on class,” October 10, 2012
Selected op-eds from the Atlantic
“The Affirmative Action That Colleges Really Need: Universities want to protect the status quo because it’s easy for them,” October 26, 2022
“Liberal Suburbs Have Their Own Border Wall,” July 23, 2023