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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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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).
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.
View the Powerpoint presentation (PDF).
Using Socioeconomic Diversity to Improve School Outcomes
Richard D. Kahlenberg, The Century Foundation, 10/11/2007
View the Powerpoint presentation from Richard D. Kahlenberg's speech, "Using Socioeconomic Diversity to Improve School Outcomes." He delivered the presentation at the Rochester State of Fair Housing Conference on October 11, 2007.
View the Powerpoint presentation (PDF).
Wake County Schools: A Question of Balance
Todd Silberman, Century Foundation Press, 9/19/2002
Examining the choices confronting schools in Raleigh, North Carolina as they try to strike a balance between public opinion and their own policies for educational equity.
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La Crosse: One School District's Drive to Create Socioeconomic Balance
Richard Mial, Century Foundation Press, 9/18/2002
In the early 1990s, when the district recognized it would need to bus more students in order to fill two newly constructed schools, district administrators saw a new transportation plan as an opportunity to better balance the student population by socioeconomic status and improve student learning.
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Divided We Fail: Coming Together through Public School Choice
 The Century Foundation, Century Foundation Press, 9/18/2002
Schools are becoming increasingly segregated by economic status and, often simultaneously, by race. The authors recommend reintegration through public school choice, based on lessons learned from programs in Wisconsin, Missouri, North Carolina, and Massachusetts.
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