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** America: Is This What You Voted For?
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By Will Marshall
Founder and President of the Progressive Policy Institute
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President Trump ([link removed]) is off to a manic start, carpet bombing Washington with executive orders of dubious legality, firing hundreds of thousands of federal workers and souring relations with America’s neighbors and allies.
I get that Trump was elected to shake up a status quo that working-class voters believe stacks the odds against them. But Rep. Al Green ([link removed]) (D-Texas) was right: Trump has no mandate to inflict ruinous trade wars on America’s friends, disable the federal government rather than reform it and throw Ukraine to the Russian wolves.
Green’s protest got him ejected ([link removed]) from the president’s stemwinder in Congress Tuesday night, during which Trump served up his usual smorgasbord of self-congratulatory fantasies to rapt Republicans and dejected Democrats.
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ICYMI: HBCUs and the Future of Artificial Intelligence
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Richard Kahlenberg, Director of Housing Policy and PPI's American Identity Project: Time to Ditch DEI in Favor of Something Better
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Ed Gresser, Vice President and Director for Trade and Global Markets: PPI Applauds Introduction of Pink Tariffs Study Act to Examine How Tariffs Drive Up Costs for American Women
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Tamar Jacoby, Director of PPI's New Ukraine Project: Europe’s Rude Awakening
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Richard Kahlenberg: How College Admissions Has Changed—and Will Continue to Change—after Affirmative Action
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Bruno Manno, Senior Advisor: Who Needs College Anymore? Creating The Experience First College
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Tamar Jacoby: Trump’s Moral Blindness Should Disqualify Him as a Peacemaker
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** Ending Legacy Preferences is Key to Current Admissions Reforms
By Richard Kahlenberg
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Director of Housing Policy and the American Identity Project
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Nearly two years ago, the Supreme Court struck down the use of racial preferences ([link removed]) in college admissions — a momentous decision that has reverberated through the landscape of higher education and begun to usher in a new approach to diversity.
In response to the ruling, then-President Joe Biden urged colleges ([link removed]) to keep their commitment to diversity but adopt a “new standard” in admissions to reward students who had overcome adversity, including a lack of financial means.
How has that worked out?
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Staff Spotlight: Richard Kahlenberg
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Richard D. Kahlenberg is the Director of Housing Policy at the Progressive Policy Institute, and the Director of the American Identity Project, where he is working on to strengthen American identity through public education. The author or editor of eighteen books, he has expertise in education, civil rights, and equal opportunity. Kahlenberg has been called “the intellectual father of the economic integration movement” in K–12 schooling and “arguably the nation’s chief proponent of class-based affirmative action in higher education admissions.” He is also an authority on teachers’ unions, charter schools, community colleges, housing segregation, and labor organizing.
Kahlenberg’s articles have been published in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, The New Republic, and elsewhere. He has appeared on ABC, CBS, CNN, FOX, C-SPAN, MSNBC, and NPR.
Previously, Kahlenberg was a nonresident scholar at the Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy, a senior fellow at The Century Foundation, a fellow at the Center for National Policy, a visiting associate professor of constitutional law at George Washington University, and a legislative assistant to Senator Charles S. Robb (D-VA). He also serves on the advisory board of the Pell Institute, and the Albert Shanker Institute, and as a professorial lecturer at George Washington University’s Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration. In addition, he is the winner of the William A. Kaplin Award for Excellence in Higher Education Law and Policy Scholarship. Reflecting on Kahlenberg’s work on higher education, William G. Bowen and Michael S. McPherson wrote that he “deserves more credit than anyone else for arguing vigorously and relentlessly for stronger efforts to address disparities by socioeconomic status.” He graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Law
School and was a Rotary scholar at the University of Nairobi School of Journalism.
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