Richard D. Kahlenberg

1 week ago | the74million.org | Richard D. Kahlenberg

Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter On April 30, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case that could compel states with charter school laws to authorize religious charters. Reporters from the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal and The 74 said the court’s conservative majority bloc appeared “open to” religious charter schools. Such a ruling would be bad for the country and deeply disruptive.

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Richard D. Kahlenberg

On April 30, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case that could compel states with charter school laws to authorize religious charters. Reporters from the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal and The 74 said the court’s conservative majority bloc appeared “open to” religious charter schools. Such a ruling would be bad for the country and deeply disruptive.

3 weeks ago | insidephilanthropy.com | Richard D. Kahlenberg

The Supreme Court's 2023 Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard decision has opened many race-based programs to legal attack. Credit: Lovely Smilesonson/ShutterstockIn the past few weeks, we’ve seen the nation’s richest institution of higher education, Harvard University, and the nation’s wealthiest philanthropy, the Gates Foundation, have their status as tax-exempt organizations questioned.

3 weeks ago | slate.com | Richard D. Kahlenberg

Jurisprudence Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. On Wednesday, the Supreme Court is slated to consider a case that one education journal said could yield “the most significant legal decision to affect schooling in decades.” The justices will decide whether the religious liberty clause of the First Amendment requires the state of Oklahoma to fund the nation’s first religious charter school.

1 month ago | politico.com | Richard D. Kahlenberg

A focus on economic disadvantage is improving admissions for students of all races. Pedestrians walk through the gates of Harvard Yard at Harvard University. | Charles Krupa/AP Richard D. Kahlenberg is director of the American Identity Project at the Progressive Policy Institute and author of Class Matters: The Fight to Get Beyond Race Preferences, Reduce Inequality and Build Real Diversity at America’s Colleges, from which this essay is adapted.