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Kahlenberg for Kappan: Calling Bull**** on Contradictory College Diversification Claims

  • May 1, 2025
  • Richard D. Kahlenberg

At a time when the Trump administration is attacking diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies in K-12 schools and colleges and universities as part of a larger high-profile campaign against what Trump calls “woke ideology,” the press is faced again with the challenge of how to accurately report on these programs.

In the past, members of the media have not always risen to the challenge, downplaying education institutions’ economic incentives for racial preferences.

Polls show that most Americans support racial diversity in educational institutions, but most don’t like using racial preferences as the means of achieving that goal.

Read more in Kappan. 

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