About the Author

Richard D. Kahlenberg is a senior fellow for education at The Century Foundation. He is the author of All Together Now: Creating Middle-Class Schools through Public School Choice (Brookings Press, 2001) and the editor of Affirmative Action for the Rich: Legacy Preferences in College Admissions (The Century Foundation Press, 2010) and Rewarding Strivers: Helping Low-Income Students Succeed in College (TCF Press, 2010).