By Richard D. Kahlenberg (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) The responses to my article, “Socioeconomic School Integration,” make a number of important points that are themselves deserving of a reply. I group my comments around six themes. 1. Using Race in K-12 School Integration vs. Higher Education Affirmative Action. In the context of K-12 schooling, I … [Read more...] about “Socioeconomic School Integration – A Reply to the Responses” by Richard D. Kahlenberg (November-December 2001 P&R Issue)
A Response
There has been a long and largely unproductive debate in this country about the primacy of racial subordination or class to address our society’s growing inequality. Over the last several years, a growing number of scholars have persuasively demonstrated that these two hierarchical structures in our society are powerfully related, but nonetheless differ. Addressing the problem … [Read more...] about A Response
A Response
Richard Kahlenberg's might actually be the smart alternative to racial integration he asserts it is if it weren't for one troublesome thing -- racism. While not repeating Gary Orfield's fine critique of the piece, let me say that Kahlenberg appears to be unaware that racism is more than low income or limited access, that class cannot be a substitute for race. Additionally, the … [Read more...] about A Response
A Response
I join Gary Orfield’s observations in response to Richard D. Kahlenburg’s article on socioeconomic school integration. I write to articulate an analysis that may be implicit in Orfield’s observations and that is absent or ignored in Kahlenburg’s. Both articles failed to confront the core of the school integration issue, whether it is defined by race or by class: white racism … [Read more...] about A Response
A Response
Richard Kahlenberg suggests that the economic integration of our public schools – or, more specifically, their transformation into “majority middle-class” schools – is both the necessary and achievable response to our society’s inability, and unwillingness, to achieve racial the desegregation of its schools and its housing patterns. Social science research demonstrates that … [Read more...] about A Response
