The Supreme Court of the United States heard the Fisher v. Texas argument on October 10, 2012. The case could dramatically alter or eliminate race-based admissions policies at colleges and universities. In A Better Affirmative Action, Senior Fellow Richard Kahlenberg and Policy Associate Halley Potter look at alternatives to racial preferences in Affirmative Action.
A Better Affirmative Action
State Universities That Created Alternatives to Racial Preferences
Richard D. Kahlenberg, Former Senior Fellow
Richard D. Kahlenberg is a senior fellow at the Progressive Policy Institute and was formerly a senior fellow at The Century Foundation. He is the author of Excluded: How Snob Zoning, NIMBYism and Class Bias Build the Walls We Don’t See (PublicAffairs, 2023).
Halley Potter, Senior Fellow and Director of PK-12 Education Policy
Halley Potter is a senior fellow and director of PK-12 education policy at The Century Foundation, where she researches public policy solutions for addressing educational inequality.
