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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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| Press Releases |
| Is Race to the Top Prompting a Rush to Judgment on Charter Schools?
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8/9/2010
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| Six of the 19 finalists announced in the second round of the U.S. Department of Education’s Race to the Top competition raised or eliminated caps on charter schools in order to improve their chances of winning up to $700 million through the controversial competition for federal money to help states overhaul their education systems. The Obama administration strongly supports expanding charter schools, as Secretary of Education Arne Duncan made clear at the beginning of the process a year ago when he said that states that limited the growth of charter schools would jeopardize their applications under the Race to the Top Fund. But is the race to increase charter schools prompting a rush to judgment about their effectiveness?
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| Are Efforts to Increase Equity in Higher Education Working? New Report From The Century Foundation Offers Plans to Help Low-Income Students Succeed in College
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6/17/2010
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| June 17, New York City — Over the last several years, new policies have been enacted to make higher education more equitable. Roughly 100 colleges and universities have reached out to lower and moderate-income students with more generous financial aid packages. Likewise, the Obama Administration has recently boosted funding for Pell Grants and community colleges. But are these and other efforts to increase equity in higher education working? Download the Press Release (PDF).
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| Digital Promise Project Reaches Goal for Creation of National Center For Research in Advanced Information and Digital Technologies
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1/27/2010
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| After more than a decade of nationwide effort, the Digital Promise Project has achieved an essential goal the creation of the National Center for Research in Advanced Information and Digital Technologies. The Digital Promise Project had its beginnings as a project sponsored by The Century Foundation. This year the Department of Education, as provided by their 2010 appropriations legislation, will make available the initial funding required to launch the National Center. In the words of the Centers authorizing legislation, The purpose of the Center shall be to support a comprehensive research and development program to harness the increasing capability of advanced information and digital technologies to improve all levels of learning and education, formal and informal, in order to provide Americans with the knowledge and skills needed to compete in the global economy
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| Turnaround Schools That Work: Moving Beyond Separate but Equal
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11/12/2009
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| Nov. 12, 2009, Washington, DC — 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. In the report, he also looks at charter schools, such as Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP) schools and the Harlem Children’s Zone (HCZ) Promise Academies. He finds that, while these schools have been highly successful with low income students, the models would not likely be successfully employed to improve student achievement in the nation’s five thousand lowest-performing public schools, which are the focus of Duncan’s current efforts.
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| Eight Reasons Not to Tie Teacher Pay to Standardized Test Results: A New Issue Brief from The Century Foundation
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10/28/2009
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| Should teachers be judged by how well their students perform on standardized test? The U.S. Department of Education has determined that the answer is “yes.” In the proposed rules for the Race to the Top Fund—the federal program that is seeking to distribute $4.3 billion in aid to states that are implementing innovative and ambitious plans for increasing student achievement—Education Secretary Arne Duncan insists that in order to receive these funds, states should be ready evaluate and compensate teachers based in part on how well their students perform on standardized tests.
In a new issue brief, Eight Reasons Not to Tie Teacher Pay to Standardized Test Results released today by The Century Foundation, Fellow Gordon MacInnes points out why this plan doesn’t make the grade.
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| New Policy Brief from The Century Foundation Makes the Case for the Federal Government to Build on the Success of State and Local Education Initiatives
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3/5/2009
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| March 5, 2009 — As President Barack Obama continues to shape his domestic agenda, he has indicated that he plans to identify, support and expand programs that work, while eliminating things that don’t work. In a new policy brief from The Century Foundation, Greg Anrig, vice president for policy, looks at three highly successful state education initiatives that are working for children, their families, and their communities.
Download the Press Release.
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| Back To The Future In Education Reform: New Book On New Jersey’s Efforts To Close The Achievement Gap Shows That Money Matters – But So Do Well-Supported Teachers And A Coherent Plan
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1/15/2009
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| With the No Child Left Behind Act up for renewal, education reform
is among the many areas the Obama administration will need to address. As the president and his
team consider policies and funding to improve academic success for all students, a new book
from The Century Foundation about New Jersey’s efforts to close the achievement gap offers
lessons about how – and how not – to improve public education.
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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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| Century Foundation Introduces “The Agenda,” Information on Issues Important to the 2008 Election
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6/13/2008
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| June 13, 2008, New York—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.
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| A New Report from The Century Foundation: Socioeconomic Integration Plans Steer Clear of Supreme Court’s Objections on Race and Meet Goals of Achievement and Racial Diversity
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6/28/2007
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| Communities that are committed to fostering diversity in public schools were dealt a serious blow today when, in an historic ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court restricted the ability of school districts to use race as a factor in school assignment plans. Districts should not give up on integration, however, says Richard D. Kahlenberg, senior fellow at The Century Foundation.
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| The Future of School Integration: Race, Class, and the U.S. Supreme Court
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11/15/2006
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| On November 28th, The Century Foundation will host a forum and release a New Issue Brief by Richard D. Kahlenberg entitled, "A New Way on School Integration". This event will highlight the U.S. Supreme Court's December 4th hearing on the constitutionality of racial school integration plans in Louisville, Kentucky and Seattle, Washington.
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| Brief Calls For Changes In The No Child Left Behind Act To Help Children Move From Bad Schools To Good Ones
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6/15/2006
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| A new brief proposes that the federal No Child Left Behind Act should be revised to enable more low-income students to attend good middle-class public schools—a strategy that has already been successful in raising achievement in a number of local school districts. This report is is the first brief in The Century Foundation’s Security and Opportunity Agenda series.
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| Some of the Nation's Leading Education Policy Experts Come Together for a Roundtable on How to Keep the Promise of Brown v. Board of Education
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4/28/2004
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| This roundtable discussion of leading education experts will focus on the future of education policy in our nation and examine strategies for fulfilling the promise of Brown, including racial integration, economic integration, housing integration, fiscal equity, school choice, and standards-based reform.
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| A New Volume From The Century Foundation Makes the Case for Refocusing Efforts to Help Low-Income Students Get College Educations
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1/14/2004
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| In America's Untapped Resource: Low-Income Students in Higher Education, a group of notable experts
examine the economic divide in higher education.
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| New Volume From The Century Foundation Offers Fresh Insights on the Debate over School Vouchers
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9/24/2003
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| The impending Senate vote on a voucher plan for Washington, D.C. public school students has renewed the volatile debate over programs that provide public money for students to attend private schools.
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| Class Warfare Fact and Fiction
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2/12/2003
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| Century Foundation Series debunks myths that fuel economic policy debate
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