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  1. Admissions Impossible
    Abigail Thernstrom and Stephan Thernstrom
    Californai without the SAT
    National Review, March 19, 2001, pp. 42-43
  2. [+]
    Almost ad Nauseam (Review)
    Abigail Thernstrom
    Faces at the Bottom of the Well, by Derrick Bell
    1. Faces at the Bottom of the Well by Derrick Bell
    National Review, November 16, 1992, p. 58
  3. America in Black and White (1997)
    Stephan Thernstrom and Abigail Thernstrom
    One Nation Indivisible
    11 Reviews, 3 Readable
  4. [+]
    American Politics (Review)
    Abigail Thernstrom
    Affirmative Action and the Stalled Quest for Black Progress, by W. Avon Drake and Rober...
    1. Affirmative Action and the Stalled Quest for Black Progress by W. Avon Drake and Robert D. Holsworth
    American Political Science Review, December 1997, p. 962
  5. 'America's Caste System'
    Jim Sleeper, Stephan Thernstrom, and Abigail Thernstrom, ...
    Two Exchanges
    The New York Review of Books, November 20, 1997, pp. 64-68
  6. Beyond the Color Line (2002)
    Abigail M. Thernstrom and Stephan Thernstrom
    New Perspectives on Race and Ethnicity in America
    1 Review
  7. Beyond the Pale
    Abigail Thernstrom
    Racial role models in education miss the point. The only thing that really matters is g...
    The New Republic, December 16, 1991, pp. 22-23
  8. Bilingual Mis-education
    Abigail M. Thernstrom
    The New Republic, April 18, 1981, pp. 15-16
  9. Bilingual Miseducation
    Abigail M. Thernstrom
    Commentary, February 1990, pp. 44-48
  10. Birth of a Gerrymander
    Abigail Thernstrom
    The Weekly Standard, February 20, 2006, pp. 14-16
  11. Black Progress
    Abigail Thernstrom and Stephan Thernstrom
    How Far We've Come--And How Far We Have to Go
    The Brookings Review, Spring 1998, pp. 12-16
  12. [+]
    Black Republicans? (Review)
    Abigail Thernstrom
    Behind the Mule, by Michael C. Dawson
    1. Behind the Mule by Michael C. Dawson
    The Public Interest, Summer 1995, pp. 106-110
  13. Courting Disorder in the Schools
    Abigail Thernstrom
    The Public Interest, Summer 1999, pp. 18-34
  14. The Democracy Reader (1992)
    Diane Ravitch and Abigail M. Thernstrom
    Classic and Modern Speeches, Essays, Poems, Declarations, and Documents on Fr...
    1 Review
  15. Don't Mend It, Defend It
    Abigail Thernstrom
    National Review, September 2, 1996, pp. 45-47
  16. E. Pluribus Plura
    Abigail M. Thernstrom
    Congress and Bilingual Education
    The Public Interest, Summer 1980, pp. 3-22
  17. Symposium
    Education Beyond Politics
    Digby Baltzell, Celeste Colgan, and Jean Elshtain, ...
    The Partisan Review, Summer 1992, pp. 343-419
  18. The End of Meritocracy: Should the SAT Account for Race?
    Abigail Thernstrom
    No: Instead of setting lower standards for minority students, we should focus on improv...
    The New Republic, September 27, 1999, pp. 27-29
  19. [+]
    Getting Beyond Race (3 Reviews)
    Abigail Thernstrom
    The Race Card, by Richard Thompson Ford
    1. The Race Card by Richard Thompson Ford
    2. Sellout: The Politics of Racial Betrayal by Randall Kennedy
    3. A Bound Man by Shelby Steele
    The Claremont Review of Books, December 2008, pp. 10-12
  20. Guinier Miss
    Abigail Thernstrom
    The jurisprudence of Lani Guinier
    The New Republic, June 14, 1993, pp. 16-18
  21. Have We Overcome?
    Abigail Thernstrom and Stephan Thernstrom
    Commentary, November 2004, pp. 49-53
  22. Hobson's Choice
    Abigail Thernstrom
    Whatever the virtues of vouchers, making education market-driven is not going to ensure...
    The New Republic, July 15, 1991, pp. 13-15
  23. [+]
    How Much Racial Progress? (Review)
    Abigail M. Thernstrom
    Racial Attitudes in America, by Howard Schuman, Charlotte Steeh, and Lawrence Bobo, ...
    1. Racial Attitudes in America by Howard Schuman, Charlotte Steeh, and Lawrence Bobo, ...
    The Public Interest, Fall 1986, pp. 96-100
  24. Integration Now
    Abigail Thernstrom
    National Review, June 22, 2009, pp. 32-33
  25. [+]
    Is Choice a Necessity? (3 Reviews)
    Abigail Thernstrom
    Politics, Markets and America's Schools, by John E. Chubb and Terry M. Moe
    1. Politics, Markets and America's Schools by John E. Chubb and Terry M. Moe
    2. Privatization and Educational Choice by Myron Lieberman
    3. Public School Choice by Myron Lieberman
    The Public Interest, Fall 1990, pp. 124-131
  26. Lani's Heir
    Abigail Thernstrom
    National Review, December 21, 2009, pp. 34-36
  27. Letters
    Zbigniew Brzezinski, Marco Carynnyk, and Nannerl O. Keohane, ...
    Commentary, December 1990, pp. 2-16
  28. Letters
    Francis Maude #2, William McGurn, and Harry V. Jaffa, ...
    Commentary, June 1990, pp. 2-16
  29. Letters
    Stephanie Coontz, Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, and Andrew Hacker, ...
    The New York Review of Books, September 24, 1998, pp. 84-88
  30. Losing Race
    John J. Miller and Abigail Thernstrom
    Is California's anti-affirmative action movement in trouble? A report from the front
    The New Republic, June 26, 1995, pp. 17-20
  31. The Lost Art of Educating Children
    Abigail Thernstrom
    The Women's Quarterly, Fall 2000, p. 8
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    The Making of the Counterculture (Review)
    Abigail Thernstrom
    In Struggle, by Clayborne Carson
    1. In Struggle by Clayborne Carson
    The New Republic, July 25, 1981, pp. 37-41
  33. No Excuses (2003)
    Abigail Thernstrom and Stephan Thernstrom
    Closing the Racial Gap in Learning
    9 Reviews, 4 Readable
  34. The Odd Evolution of the Voting Rights Act
    Abigail M. Thernstrom
    The Public Interest, Spring 1979, pp. 49-75
  35. On the Hill: Dole's Pass
    Abigail Thernstrom
    A GOP wimp-out on preferences
    The New Republic, April 1, 1996, p. 11
  36. On the Scarcity of Black Professors
    Abigail M. Thernstrom
    Commentary, July 1990, pp. 22-26
  37. Out-Classed
    Abigail Thernstrom
    Before we spend a fortune on education experiments, why not copy an existing success st...
    The New Republic, May 13, 1991, pp. 12-13
  38. Permaffirm Action
    Abigail Thernstrom
    Reverse discrimination is far too institutionalized to be ended by a few Supreme Court ...
    The New Republic, July 31, 1989, pp. 17-18
  39. The Prescience of Myrdal
    Abigail Thernstrom and Stephan Thernstrom
    The Public Interest, Summer 1997, pp. 36-54
  40. Racial Politics, As Ever
    Abigail Thernstrom
    Democrats will be demagogic; when will Republicans counter them?
    National Review, March 19, 2007, pp. 20-21
  41. Racial Preferences
    Stephan Thernstrom and Abigail Thernstrom
    What We Now Know
    Commentary, February 1999, pp. 44-50
  42. [+]
    The Politics of Equality Across the Globe (Review)
    Abigail Thernstrom
    Preferential Policies, by Thomas Sowell
    1. Preferential Policies by Thomas Sowell
    American Political Science Review, June 1991, p. 600
  43. [+]
    Television (Review)
    Abigail Thernstrom
    Unequal Justice, by Jerold S. Auerbach
    1. Unequal Justice by Jerold S. Auerbach
    The New Republic, May 22, 1976, p. 26
  44. [+]
    Book Reviews (Review)
    Abigail M. Thernstrom
    The Nationalization of American Politics, by William M. Lunch
    1. The Nationalization of American Politics by William M. Lunch
    Political Science Quarterly, September 1988, p. 577
  45. Rough Justice
    Abigail Thernstrom
    How the anti-Thomas lynch mob hanged itself
    The New Republic, November 11, 1991, pp. 14-15
  46. [+]
    The Souls of American Folk (Review)
    Abigail Thernstrom
    Enough, by Juan Williams
    1. Enough by Juan Williams
    National Review, November 6, 2006, pp. 50-52
  47. A Taboo Erodes
    Abigail Thernstrom
    The truth about blacks and education
    National Review, December 20, 1999, pp. 22-24
  48. NR Special: Education Section
    Testing and Its Enemies
    Abigail Thernstrom
    At the schoolhouse barricades
    National Review, September 11, 2000, pp. 38-40
  49. Reviews
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    Those who can't do (Review)
    Abigail Thernstrom
    Who's Teaching Your Children, by Vivian Troen, Katherine C. Boles, and Sydney S. Chelle...
    1. Who's Teaching Your Children by Vivian Troen, Katherine C. Boles, and Sydney S. Chellen, ...
    CommonWealth, Summer 2003, pp. 83-85
  50. 'Voting Rights' Trap
    Abigail Thernstrom
    The New Republic, September 2, 1985, pp. 21-23
  51. Voting Rights--And Wrongs (2009)
    Abigail Thernstrom
    The Elusive Quest for Racially Fair Elections
    1 Review, 1 Readable
  52. We Have Overcome
    Stephan Thernstrom and Abigail Thernstrom
    If public intellectuals ever stopped bemoaning the cultural divide between blacks and w...
    The New Republic, October 13, 1997, pp. 23-28
  53. Whose Votes Count? (1987)
    Abigail M. Thernstrom
    Affirmative Action and Minority Voting Rights
    8 Reviews, 1 Readable
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