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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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In A New Book from The Century Foundation National Education Experts Offer Advice for Next Administration on How to Fix No Child Left Behind
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10/15/2008
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October 15, 2008, Washington —Among the early challenges for the new president and Congress next year will be getting national education reform back on track by fixing the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), which is up for reauthorization. NCLB was passed in 2001 with broad bipartisan support, but 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.
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Ocean Hill-Brownsville at 40
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Richard D. Kahlenberg,
The Century Foundation,
9/9/2008
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New York City public schools opened peaceably again this year, making it all the more remarkable to recall the chaos that rocked the system 40 years ago. On what was to be the opening day, September 9, 1968, the vast majority of city schools were shut down as more than 50,000 New York City public school teachers went out on strike. The day marked the beginning of the first of three walkouts that kept 1.1 million students out of school for a total of 36 days through mid-November, constituting what was at the time the longest and largest series of teacher strikes in American history.Continue Reading on the Taking Note Blog.
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Opening School Choice to the Suburbs
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Richard D. Kahlenberg,
The Century Foundation,
8/27/2008
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One of the big problems with the No Child Left Behind Act is its failure to deliver on the promise to allow kids in low-performing schools to transfer to better performing institutions. Only about 1% of students transfer under the Act’s provisions, in part because in many urban districts, there are very few good schools to transfer into. Continue Reading on the Taking Note Blog.
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Radical idea: Open the doors of affluent suburban schools to Chicago students
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Richard D. Kahlenberg,
Chicago Tribune,
8/22/2008
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Sen. James Meeks' (D-Chicago) proposed student boycott of Chicago public schools next month has sparked furious controversy. Should students miss their first day of class for the worthy goal of promoting equity in public school spending? Leaders such as Mayor Richard Daley and Chicago Public Schools Chief Arne Duncan are worried about the disruption involved as Meeks seeks to enroll Chicago students at New Trier High School in Winnetka.
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Sharpton, Education Plan May Tear Union Ties
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6/12/06
Decades-long ties between civil rights groups and teachers unions could be split by a new effort, led by the Rev. Al Sharpton and New York City Schools Chancellor Joel Klein, to close the nagging achievement gap between white and minority students.
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The New Look of School Integration
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Richard D. Kahlenberg,
The American Prospect,
6/3/2008
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When the U.S. Supreme Court struck down racial integration plans in Jefferson County (Louisville), Kentucky and Seattle, Washington last June, some feared the decisions spelled the end of America's commitment to Brown v. Board of Education.
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A Touch of Class
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Richard D. Kahlenberg,
Guardian Unlimited,
5/23/2008
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Republicans, who watched Barack Obama's numbers plummet over the inflammatory sermons of Rev Jeremiah Wright, are surely on the lookout for something similar. As Obama turns to November's presidential campaign, a racially-charged sleeper issue—not much discussed yet—has the danger of becoming the next Rev Wright.
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Ocean Hill-Brownsville, 40 Years Later
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Richard D. Kahlenberg,
Chronicle of Higher Education,
4/25/2008
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They were the pink slips that helped change American liberalism.
Forty years ago—on May 9, 1968—the local school board in Brooklyn's black ghetto of Ocean Hill-Brownsville sent telegrams to 19 unionized educators, informing them that their employment in the district was terminated.
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Philanthropy and School Reform
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Greg Anrig,
The Century Foundation,
3/12/2008
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The most notable aspect of the Sunday Times Magazine’s roundtable on the “new world of educational philanthropy,” which was intended to promote outside-the-box thinking on school reform, was how the entire discussion was locked in the tired old box of trying to make “separate but equal” a workable reality.
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Spin Cycle: How Research Is Used in Policy Debates: The Case of Charter Schools
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Jeffrey R. Henig,
Century Foundation Press,
Russell Sage Foundation,
2/11/2008
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One important aim of social science research is to provide unbiased information that can help guide public policies. However, social science is often construed as politics by other means. Nowhere is the polarized nature of social science research more visible than in the heated debate over charter schools. In Spin Cycle, noted political scientist and education expert Jeffrey Henig explores how controversies over the charter school movement illustrate the use and misuse of research in policy debates.
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The Best and Worst of 2007: Education
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Richard D. Kahlenberg,
The Century Foundation,
12/26/2007
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The world of education suffered two major set backs in 2007—the adoption of a radical private school vouchers program by the Utah state legislature, and a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down voluntary racial integration plans in Louisville and Seattle—but the good news is that both have been met with powerful responses.
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