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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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Obama's No Child Left Behind Revisions
Richard D. Kahlenberg, The Century Foundation, 2/1/2010

According to today’s New York Times, President Obama will propose a number of important changes to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which under the Bush Administration was known as No Child Left Behind.  The good news is that Obama plans to eliminate some of the most problematic features of NCLB.  The bad news is that he may introduce some new problems, drawing on the administration’s current “Race to the Top” education program. Continue Reading on the Taking Note blog.

No Child Left Behind’s Incentive Game
Marco Basile, The Century Foundation, 8/17/2009
At a recent education policy gathering of top social scientists from fifteen universities and several policy research organizations, the best line of the day came from a reporter at the back of the room. Various longitudinal studies of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) had been presented at a conference dedicated to evaluating the 2001 Act by the time a young reporter raised his hand, stood up, and asked with a straight face: “Could any of today’s speakers please tell us whether or not the No Child Left Behind Act is working?” Continue Reading on the Taking Note Blog.
Can Separate Be Equal? The Overlooked Flaw at the Center of No Child Left Behind
Richard D. Kahlenberg, The Century Foundation, 11/4/2008
NCLB's failure to recognize the effects of concentrated poverty in American schools.Read the Reality Check (PDF).
Improving On No Child Left Behind: Getting Education Reform Back on Track
Richard D. Kahlenberg, Century Foundation Press, 10/15/2008
In Improving On No Child Left Behind: Getting Education Reform Back on Track, a new book from The Century Foundation edited by Senior Fellow Richard D. Kahlenberg, some of the nation’s most respected authorities on education reform examine three central defects of the act: the under-funding of NCLB; the flawed implementation of the standards, testing, and accountability provisions; and major difficulties with the provisions that are designed to allow students to transfer out of failing public schools. The authors detail what needs to be addressed in each of these areas, and propose ways to fix the problems.
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Fixing No Child Left Behind
Richard D. Kahlenberg, The Century Foundation, 6/12/2008
The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) was passed in 2001 with broad bipartisan support, but in the years since its enactment it has come under sharp attack from many quarters. 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. Richard D. Kahlenberg explores these issues. Download the PDF here to continue reading.
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