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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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Higher Education
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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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Left Behind: Unequal Opportunity in Higher Education
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Richard D. Kahlenberg,
The Century Foundation,
11/4/2008
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The 1965 Higher Education Act and its successors have sought to ensure that no student would be denied a college education because of his or her financial condition. President Lyndon B. Johnson set out the ambitious goal that “a high school student anywhere in this great land of ours can apply to any college or any university in any of the fifty states and not be turned away because his family is poor.” Continue Reading Here (PDF).
Read other reports in the Reality Check series here. Originally Published in 2004, this publication was updated in November 2008.
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