Senior fellow at the Century Foundation, a progressive think-tank, author of The Remedy: Class, Race and Affirmative Action, Tough Liberal: Albert Shanker and the Battles Over Schools, Unions, Race, and Democracy, and All Together Now: Creating Middle-Class Schools through Public School Choice
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