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In Plain Sight: Simple, Difficult Lessons from New Jersey's Expensive Effort to Close the Achievement Gap
Gordon MacInnes,
Century Foundation Press,
1/9/2009
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Improving On No Child Left Behind: Getting Education Reform Back on Track
Richard D. Kahlenberg,
Century Foundation Press,
10/15/2008
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America's Untapped Resource
Richard D. Kahlenberg,
Century Foundation Press,
1/14/2004
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Public School Choice vs. Private School Vouchers
Richard D. Kahlenberg,
Century Foundation Press,
9/24/2003
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Can Separate Be Equal? The Overlooked Flaw at the Center of No Child Left Behind
Richard D. Kahlenberg,
The Century Foundation,
4/23/2004
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Divided We Fail: Coming Together through Public School Choice
The Century Foundation,
Century Foundation Press,
9/18/2002
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All Together Now
Richard D. Kahlenberg,
Brookings Institution Press,
2/15/2001
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A Notion at Risk
Richard D. Kahlenberg,
Century Foundation Press,
9/15/2000
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Brown v. Board of Education at 55
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Richard D. Kahlenberg,
The Century Foundation,
5/20/2009
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This past Sunday marked the 55th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, but to the extent it was noticed at all, the case’s meaning was pretty well diluted beyond recognition. Brown was about ending segregated schooling and upending the noxious legal principle laid down in Plessy v. Ferguson that “separate” schooling for black and white could be “equal.” Today, however, Brown has become for most education leaders a loose metaphor for improving education for minority students and is utterly divorced from the original notion that so long as disadvantaged minority students attend schools separately from more advantaged white students, those schools will be unequal. Continue Reading on the Taking Note Blog.
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Obama: Stay Away from Notre Dame's Commencement
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Richard D. Kahlenberg,
Steve Shadowen,
The Century Foundation,
5/15/2009
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Conservative Catholics have been berating Notre Dame for extending a commencement-speaking invitation to a pro-choice president. We agree that President Barack Obama shouldn't speak at Notre Dame—but abortion has nothing to do with it. Notre Dame practices pervasive discrimination in its admissions policies. Every year the school reserves 25 percent of the seats in its entering class for children of alumni. These "legacy preferences" result in applicants being granted or denied admission based not on their merit but on their ancestry. Continue Reading on the Taking Note Blog.
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What Obama's Education Speech Was Missing
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Richard D. Kahlenberg,
The Century Foundation,
3/10/2009
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In President Barack Obama's speech on education today to the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, he outlined four pillars of K-12 school reform: Investing in early childhood initiatives; encouraging better standards and tests; recruiting, preparing and rewarding outstanding teachers; and promoting innovation through charter schools and longer school days and school years. These are mostly very good and important ideas, worthy of support, but I was left wondering about a fifth pillar -- the need to attack the fountainhead of unequal schooling: our system of educating low-income and minority students separately from middle-class and white students. Especially before an audience of Latinos, whose children are more segregated in schools even than African Americans, why not address this question head-on? Continue Reading on the Taking Note Blog.
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Building on Success: Educational Strategies that Work
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Greg Anrig,
The Century Foundation,
3/5/2009
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As President Barack Obama continues to shape his domestic agenda, he has indicated that he plans to identify, support and expand programs that work, while eliminating things that don’t work. In a new policy brief from The Century Foundation, Greg Anrig, vice president for policy, looks at three highly successful state education initiatives that are working for children, their families, and their communities.
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A Better Alternative on DC School Vouchers
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Richard D. Kahlenberg,
The Century Foundation,
3/3/2009
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The Washington Post and Wall Street Journal editorial pages have teamed up to denounce a provision in the 2009 omnibus spending bill which they say will effectively kill the ongoing Washington D.C. school voucher program that gives public funds to low-income students to attend private and religious schools. Part of the argument made by The Post and The Journal, is that it would be unfair to dump these voucher students midstream back into the largely dysfunctional Washington D.C. public school system. Continue Reading on the Taking Note Blog.
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The Problem with Ethnic Charter Schools
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Richard D. Kahlenberg,
The Century Foundation,
1/15/2009
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On Monday, a committee of the New York State Board of Regents approved a proposal to create a Hebrew-language charter school in Brooklyn. The school is part of a growing movement among charter schools to target specific ethnic or racial groups. As Sara Rimer noted in a front page New York Times story on Saturday, there are 30 ethnic charter schools in Minnesota alone, catering to groups such as Somali, Ethiopian and Hmong immigrants. Continue Reading on the Taking Note Blog.
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The Best and Worst in Education - 2008
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Richard D. Kahlenberg,
The Century Foundation,
12/22/2008
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In many ways, 2008 was a great year for education, with the election of a new president who is willing to both invest in and reform American schools. Also encouraging was the emergence of a new kind of school integration based primarily on economic status to replace race-based plans struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court. At the same time, however, 2008 was deeply disheartening year for education, as long-running tensions between some civil rights groups and liberal pundits on the one hand, and teacher unions and academics on the other, threatened to deteriorate into an all-out education war on the left.. Continue Reading on the Taking Note Blog.
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Arne Duncan Moves to the National Stage
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Richard D. Kahlenberg,
The Century Foundation,
12/16/2008
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President-Elect Barack Obama’s new choice of Education Secretary, Chicago schools CEO Arne Duncan, is receiving wide praise from various factions of the Democratic Party, and even from some Republicans. Everyone seems to support the choice, from outgoing Education Secretary Margaret Spellings to the National Education Association. Like Obama, Duncan has embraced charter schools and teacher pay for performance, which pleases some, but he’s also implemented reforms in cooperation with the local teachers union, and doesn’t demonize teacher voice like some do. Moreover, as a big advocate of pre-K programs in Chicago, he recognizes that poverty is the biggest source of the achievement gap, not teacher unions. Continue Reading on the Taking Note Blog.
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In A New Book from The Century Foundation National Education Experts Offer Advice for Next Administration on How to Fix No Child Left Behind
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10/15/2008
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October 15, 2008, Washington —Among the early challenges for the new president and Congress next year will be getting national education reform back on track by fixing the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), which is up for reauthorization. NCLB was passed in 2001 with broad bipartisan support, but the controversial legislation, which requires states receiving federal funding to test students in reading and math in grades 3 through 8 and to hold schools accountable for making adequate yearly progress in raising student achievement, is now widely acknowledged to need a major overhaul when it is reauthorized.
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Ocean Hill-Brownsville at 40
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Richard D. Kahlenberg,
The Century Foundation,
9/9/2008
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New York City public schools opened peaceably again this year, making it all the more remarkable to recall the chaos that rocked the system 40 years ago. On what was to be the opening day, September 9, 1968, the vast majority of city schools were shut down as more than 50,000 New York City public school teachers went out on strike. The day marked the beginning of the first of three walkouts that kept 1.1 million students out of school for a total of 36 days through mid-November, constituting what was at the time the longest and largest series of teacher strikes in American history.Continue Reading on the Taking Note Blog.
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Opening School Choice to the Suburbs
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Richard D. Kahlenberg,
The Century Foundation,
8/27/2008
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One of the big problems with the No Child Left Behind Act is its failure to deliver on the promise to allow kids in low-performing schools to transfer to better performing institutions. Only about 1% of students transfer under the Act’s provisions, in part because in many urban districts, there are very few good schools to transfer into. Continue Reading on the Taking Note Blog.
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Radical idea: Open the doors of affluent suburban schools to Chicago students
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Richard D. Kahlenberg,
Chicago Tribune,
8/22/2008
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Sen. James Meeks' (D-Chicago) proposed student boycott of Chicago public schools next month has sparked furious controversy. Should students miss their first day of class for the worthy goal of promoting equity in public school spending? Leaders such as Mayor Richard Daley and Chicago Public Schools Chief Arne Duncan are worried about the disruption involved as Meeks seeks to enroll Chicago students at New Trier High School in Winnetka.
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