What's Next for Affirmative Action
Ruminating with Rick Kahlenberg about the SCOTUS decision and the promise of class-based preferences
On June 29th, the Supreme Court outlawed race-based preferences in college admissions. I oppose the decision, for reasons outlined here by Ruth Marcus in the Washington Post, and by the Century Foundation, (a liberal think tank where I’m a board member) and Rick Kahlenberg, whom I met in the early 1990s, was a longtime fellow. Rick, now a sen…