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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
Improving On No Child Left Behind: Getting Education Reform Back on Track
Richard D. Kahlenberg, Century Foundation Press, 10/15/2008
America's Untapped Resource
Richard D. Kahlenberg, Century Foundation Press, 1/14/2004
Public School Choice vs. Private School Vouchers
Richard D. Kahlenberg, Century Foundation Press, 9/24/2003
Can Separate Be Equal? The Overlooked Flaw at the Center of No Child Left Behind
Richard D. Kahlenberg, The Century Foundation, 4/23/2004
Divided We Fail: Coming Together through Public School Choice
The Century Foundation, Century Foundation Press, 9/18/2002
All Together Now
Richard D. Kahlenberg, Brookings Institution Press, 2/15/2001
A Notion at Risk
Richard D. Kahlenberg, Century Foundation Press, 9/15/2000
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Integration

 
Does Obama Believe in School Integration?
Richard D. Kahlenberg, The Century Foundation, 11/17/2009
Over the past 10 months, we’ve heard a great deal about the Obama Administration’s support for charter schools, education standards, and performance pay for teachers. But what does the Administration think of racial and socioeconomic school integration? On Friday, a slew of major civil rights organizations held a national conference at Howard University Law School and invited several key Obama Administration officials to speak, including Carmel Martin, Assistant Secretary for Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development at the Department of Education; Russlynn Ali, the Education Department’s Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights; and Derek Douglas, Special Assistant to the President for Urban Affairs in the Domestic Policy Council. Continue Reading on the Taking Note Blog.
Turnaround Schools That Work: Moving Beyond Separate but Equal
Richard D. Kahlenberg, The Century Foundation, 11/12/2009
Education Secretary Arne Duncan’s far-reaching efforts to transform the country’s lowest performing schools into successful ones, don’t reach far enough according to a new report from The Century Foundation. In “Turnaround Schools That Work: Moving Beyond Separate but Equal,” TCF Senior Fellow Richard Kahlenberg details why ‘turnaround” approaches that focus on changing principals and teachers but fail to address issues related to parents and students, have fallen short of expectations.
Turnaround Schools that Work (Powerpoint Presentation)
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Housing Integration in Westchester
Richard D. Kahlenberg, The Century Foundation, 8/12/2009

Yesterday’s New York Times brought welcome news that suburban Westchester County New York had agreed to a landmark housing desegregation settlement to create more than 600 homes and apartments for moderate income residents in overwhelmingly white communities.  For many people, the idea of integration – of housing and of schools – has a 1970's ring to it, but if we really want to provide equal opportunity for kids, and to fulfill the promise of a single nation, the Westchester agreement must be a harbinger of things to come.Continue Reading on the Taking Note Blog.

Socioeconomic and Racial School Integration
Richard D. Kahlenberg, 1/22/2009
View a PDF of the PowerPoint presentation from Richard D. Kahlenberg's speech on a conference: "Passing the Torch: The Past, Present and Future of Inter-district School Desegregation” Charles Hamilton Houston Institute, Harvard Law School, January 17, 2009
View the Powerpoint presentation (PDF).
The Problem with Ethnic Charter Schools
Richard D. Kahlenberg, The Century Foundation, 1/15/2009
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.
Socioeconomic Affirmative Action
Richard D. Kahlenberg, 4/11/2008
View the Powerpoint presentation from Richard D. Kahlenberg's speech on affirmative action cosponsored by the Ford Foundation and Howard Samuels Center.
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Rescuing Brown v. Board of Education: Profiles of Twelve School Districts Pursuing Socioeconomic School Integration
Richard D. Kahlenberg, The Century Foundation, 6/28/2007
The recent U.S. Supreme Court decision to curtail significantly the ability of school districts to integrate by race has shifted attention to a new and growing alternative form of integration based on the socioeconomic status of students. In a report released on June 28, TCF Senior Fellow, Richard D. Kahlenberg examines twelve school systems and finds that when socioeconomic school integration plans are well implemented, they can boost academic achievement and also provide students with a racially integrated schooling environment. Download the PDF document here.
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