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| School Turnaround Strategies: A Debate
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The Century Foundation & The Center for American Progress
- 11/12/2009
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The Obama administration has made it a major priority to turn around the nation's lowest performing schools but there is considerable debate over how to accomplish this goal. Some argue for bringing in new teachers or new organizations such as charter schools to turnaround failing institutions, contending that improved educational opportunities do not require a change in the mix of students in a school. Others argue that it is very difficult to take successful high poverty de facto segregated schools to scale and that magnet approaches can turn around failing institutions by attracting a different mix of students, parents, and faculty.
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| Closing the Achievement Gap Through Additional Funding, High Quality Instruction, and a Focus on Early Literacy: Lessons From New Jersey Districts
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The Century Foundation & The Center for American Progress
- 4/7/2009
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On April 7, The Center for American Progress and The Century Foundation held a discussion of the book In Plain Sight, Simple, Difficult Lessons from New Jersey's Expensive Effort to Close the Achievement Gap by Gordon MacInnes. The author and our expert panelists will discuss the lessons learned by these districts as well as the implications for state and federal policy.
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| NewTalk Panel Discusses ‘No Child Left Behind’ for Education Month Series
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NewTalk
- 11/18/2008
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The online discussion site NewTalk (www.NewTalk.org) will host a fourth and final installment in its special month-long series of conversations on education. Centered on the possibility of ending ‘No Child Left Behind,’ the three-day discussion will run November 18 - 20. The Century Foundation's Senior Fellow and editor of the recently released book, Improving On No Child Left Behind: Getting Education Reform Back on Track, Richard D. Kahlenberg will be part of the discussion.
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| Improving on No Child Left Behind: Recommendations for a New President and Congress
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The Century Foundation
- 10/15/2008
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The election of a new president and Congress will provide a new set of hands to fix the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). What should be done about funding levels? How can the standards, testing, and accountability provisions be improved? How can the promise of allowing students in low performing schools to move to better ones be realized? To answer these questions and others, The Century Foundation has released a new book, Improving on No Child Left Behind: Getting Education Reform Back on Track and sponsored a forum with the volume’s leading authors.
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| Book Talk and Breakfast
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The Century Foundation & The Committee for Economic Development
- 11/27/2007
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The Committee for Economic Development (CED) in partnership with The Century Foundation cordially invites you to attend a breakfast discussion on Richard Kahlenberg’s new book, "Tough Liberal: Albert Shanker and the Battles Over Schools, Unions, Race, and Democracy". The discussion will take place on November 27 from 8:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. at the East Side Marriott in New York City (525 Lexington Avenue, at 49th Street).
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| Roundtable Discussion on Albert Shanker's Legacy
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The Century Foundation
- 9/6/2007
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Albert Shanker was a legendary and controversial leader of New York
City's United Federation of Teachers (UFT) from 1964-1986 and the American
Federation of Teachers (AFT) from 1974-1997. Richard Kahlenberg's book, Tough Liberal,
which provides the first complete narrative of Shanker's life, raises a
number of questions for contemporary debates over education, labor, civil
rights, and the future of liberalism.
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| Math Lessons: How to Make New Funds Count for New York City Public Schools
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The Century Foundation
- 2/28/2007
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Governor Spitzer's proposal to increase spending on education for New York City has sparked debate over how much the city should get for schools and how that money should be used. Panel participants will discuss these issues and look across the Hudson to determine what lessons can be learned from New Jersey's longstanding implementation of school finance litigation.
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| The Growing Educational Divide
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Demos
- 1/10/2006
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TCF's Richard Kahlenberg joins Robert Jackson for a discussion of increasing economic segregation in education.
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| Race, Class, and Higher Education
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The Century Foundation
- 8/10/2005
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The Summer Policy Lunch Forum Series is a brown bag lunch forum for young people working and studying in New York to talk about politics and important public policy issues with experts and advocates.
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| Charter Schools: Are They Working?
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The Century Foundation
- 10/27/2004
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Taking stock of the recent evidence and debate about charter schools and their effectiveness.
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| Unfinished Business: Keeping the Promise of Brown v. Board of Education
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The Century Foundation, The Center for American Progress, Institute for Educational Leadership
- 5/10/2004
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Leading experts present effective strategies for fulfilling the promise of Brown on the fiftieth anniversary of the landmark decision.
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| The Coming Debate over Equity in Higher Education
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The Century Foundation
- 1/14/2004
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Marking the release of a new volume from The Century Foundation: America's Untapped Resource: Low-Income Students in Higher Education Richard D. Kahlenberg (editor)
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| School Vouchers in DC and Beyond: Risks, Benefits, and Alternatives
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The Century Foundation
- 9/25/2003
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Panel discussion of implications of current vouchers legislation and release of new Century Foundation volume, Public School Choice vs. Private School Vouchers.
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| Should Race Count? A Policy Discussion on the Future of Affirmative Action
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The Century Foundation
- 3/31/2003
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A discussion on the future of affirmative action exploring the effects of race-neutral alternatives to such policies at the nation’s most selective colleges.
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| The Next Battle in the Voucher Wars: Alternatives for Public School reform
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The Century Foundation
- 10/18/2002
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Part of the Policy in Perspective series.
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| Common School Task Force Report
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The Century Foundation
- 9/18/2002
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Task force members discuss their recommendations and explain why integration through public school choice is more promising than current strategies, like testing and vouchers.
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| Public School Choice and Integration
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The Century Foundation
- 2/22/2001
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President Bush's education plan, including its call for private school vouchers, has spawned two major responses from voucher opponents.
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| Progressive Alternatives to School Vouchers
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The Century Foundation
- 9/27/1999
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Three of the communities most opposed to vouchers -- civil rights groups, civil liberties groups, and teachers unions -- respond to supporters' claims.
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