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| Fixing No Child Left Behind
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Richard D. Kahlenberg,
The Century Foundation,
6/12/2008
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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. Download the PDF here to continue reading.
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| Socioeconomic Affirmative Action
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Richard D. Kahlenberg,
4/11/2008
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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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| 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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| Using Socioeconomic Diversity to Improve School Outcomes
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Richard D. Kahlenberg,
The Century Foundation,
10/11/2007
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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.
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| Rescuing Brown v. Board of Education: Profiles of Twelve School Districts Pursuing Socioeconomic School Integration
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Richard D. Kahlenberg,
The Century Foundation,
6/28/2007
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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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| Could Transparency Bring Economic Diversity?
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Richard D. Kahlenberg,
New England Board of Education-Connection,
4/1/2007
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The Spellings Commission report calls for greater access to higher education for low—and moderate income students, greater transparency in the way higher education works and greater accountability for producing results. These recommendations are all significant in their own right, but the three concepts also converge to provide powerful support for an important new idea: requiring greater transparency and accountability of colleges for whether or not they are honoring a commitment to the American Dream—the ideal that someone from even the most humble background can, through hard work and talent, get a good education and do well in American society. Continue reading PDF document.
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| A New Way on School Integration
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Richard D. Kahlenberg,
The Century Foundation,
11/27/2006
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This term, the U.S. Supreme Court is considering challenges in two school districts to the constitutionality of voluntary racial school integration plans in elementary and secondary education. In the latest issue brief from the Century Foundation, Richard D. Kahlenberg discusses the possible effects of the court's decision.
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View a transcript of the Issue Brief release event here (PDF).
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| The American Middle Class in International Perspective
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Bernard Wasow,
The Century Foundation,
10/23/2006
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In this issue brief, The Century Foundation's Bernard Wasow takes a close look at why most Americans want to be categorized as middle class. He notes that the poor are perceived as losers, the rich as snobs—the middle is where America’s hard-working families want to see themselves.
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| Promoting School Readiness Through Universal Preschool
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Kristen J. Oshyn,
Laura Newland,
The Century Foundation,
10/18/2006
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The federal government should provide financial incentives for states to add high-quality universal preschool programs to their public school systems in order to promote higher student achievement among students of all socioeconomic classes and provide long-term benefits to society.
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| Helping Children Move from Bad Schools to Good Ones
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Richard D. Kahlenberg,
The Century Foundation,
6/15/2006
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A guide for specific changes to the No Child Left Behind Act that would provide the opportunity for more children to attend economically integrated middle-class public schools.
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| One Pasadena: Tapping the Community's Resources to Strengthen the Public Schools
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Richard D. Kahlenberg,
Pasadena Educational Foundation,
5/24/2006
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The research suggests that low-income students can learn at high levels if given the right environment. But in Pasadena-area schools – and in much of the country – low-income and minority students are not reaching their full potential because they are educated in separate schools, outside the mainstream.
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| Race, Class and Education
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Richard D. Kahlenberg,
The Century Foundation,
5/5/2006
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A presentation on socioeconomic integration prepared for the Center for Children and Childhood Studies of Rutgers University.
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| Economic Diversity on Campus
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Richard D. Kahlenberg,
The Century Foundation,
4/14/2005
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Powerpoint presentation from National College Action Network conference.
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| All-Day, All-Year Schools (Rev. 2004)
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Ruy Teixeira,
The Century Foundation,
4/27/2004
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To alleviate public school overcrowding, provide more effective instruction, raise the performance level of students, and reduce pressure on working parents, the federal government should support a move to keep public schools open all day and throughout the year. A Century Foundation Idea Brief.
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| Can Separate Be Equal? The Overlooked Flaw at the Center of No Child Left Behind
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Richard D. Kahlenberg,
The Century Foundation,
4/23/2004
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NCLB's failure to recognize the effects of concentrated poverty in American schools.
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| Left Behind: Unequal Opportunity in Higher Education
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Richard D. Kahlenberg,
The Century Foundation,
3/19/2004
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America has failed to make good on the promise of equal opportunity in higher education, even though the benefits of having a college education are greater than ever.
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| America's Untapped Resource
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Richard D. Kahlenberg,
Century Foundation Press,
1/14/2004
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A group of notable experts examine the substantial economic divide in higher education and discuss the ramifications of that divide.
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| Public School Choice vs. Private School Vouchers
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Richard D. Kahlenberg,
Century Foundation Press,
9/24/2003
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This collection of The Century Foundation's extensive work on the issue of school vouchers seeks to go beyond the arguments that the marketplace delivers better results for anything, including education, than the public sector.
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| Economic Affirmative Action in College Admissions
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Richard D. Kahlenberg,
The Century Foundation,
4/2/2003
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Three alternatives for affirmative action programs in higher education: race-based preferences, admission based on high-school class rank, and preferences for economically disadvantaged applicants regardless of race.
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| Socioeconomic Status, Race/Ethnicity, and Selective College Admissions
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Stephen J. Rose,
Anthony P. Carnevale,
The Century Foundation,
3/31/2003
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Seeks to expand the traditional debate over race and ethnicity in admissions to selective colleges by analyzing the issue of whether low-income students, too, should benefit from affirmative action policies.
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| Pell Grant Recipients in Selective Colleges and Universities
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Donald E. Heller,
The Century Foundation,
3/31/2003
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Pell Grant eligibility is a better indicator of status as a lower-income student than the often-used marker of students who are designated as “eligible for financial aid.” Data gleaned from reports on Pell Grants can indicate roughly the socioeconomic make-up of college classes.
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| Time to Care: Redesigning Childcare to Promote Education, Support Families, and Build Communities
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Joan Lombardi,
Temple University Press,
11/1/2002
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Joan Lombardi, one of America's foremost experts on child care, shows how our current system is not meeting the needs of America's families.
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| Side-by-Side Comparisons of Leading (ESEA) Reauthorization Proposals
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The Century Foundation,
The Century Foundation,
10/7/2002
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Comparison of leading Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) reauthorization proposals submitted in 2002 from President George W. Bush, Sen. Joe Lieberman, and Rep. George Miller.
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| A Response to Chester Finn
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Richard D. Kahlenberg,
The Century Foundation,
9/27/2002
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Response to a critique of Divided We Fail: Coming Together through Public School Choice.
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| Wake County Schools: A Question of Balance
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Todd Silberman,
Century Foundation Press,
9/19/2002
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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
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Richard Mial,
Century Foundation Press,
9/18/2002
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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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| St. Louis: Desegregation and School Choice in the Land of Dred Scott
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William H. Freivogel,
Century Foundation Press,
9/18/2002
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St. Louis’s voluntary school desegregation program survives as an example of the new era of twenty-first-century school choice and integration.
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| Divided We Fail: Coming Together through Public School Choice
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The Century Foundation,
Century Foundation Press,
9/18/2002
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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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| Economic School Integration
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Richard D. Kahlenberg,
The Century Foundation,
9/18/2002
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An update on the research and policy developments that occurred in the two and a half years following the publication of Economic School Integration. Significant growth in the number of students attending economically integrated schools, plus additional positive research on the topic, make the case for economic schools integration even stronger.
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| Controlled Choice in Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Edward B. Fiske,
Century Foundation Press,
9/18/2002
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Examining controlled school choice in Cambridge, with a focus on the city’s 2001 decision to use socioeconomic status, rather than race, as the primary factor for promoting diversity in schools.
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| The Problem of Taking Private School Voucher Programs to Scale
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Richard D. Kahlenberg,
The Century Foundation,
6/27/2002
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Even if it is true, as voucher proponents claim, that small voucher programs for low-income children increase the achievement of African American students, the best evidence suggests that if those programs were expanded to include much larger numbers of low-income students, the benefits would quickly fade away.
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| Hard Work for Good Schools
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Gary Orfield,
Elizabeth H. DeBray,
The Century Foundation,
1/1/2002
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Leading education authorities look at the 1994 Title I reforms and how they have been implemented, examine recent research, and explore the future of the program.
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| Raising Standards or Raising Barriers?
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Gary Orfield,
Mindy L. Kornhaber,
Century Foundation Press,
4/15/2001
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More and more states require students to pass large-scale tests as a condition of promotion or graduation. But the benefits of such tests are assumed, and the costs are often ignored.
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| All Together Now
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Richard D. Kahlenberg,
Brookings Institution Press,
2/15/2001
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Combining the classic educational concept of a “common school” for those from all social, economic, and cultural backgrounds with the current enthusiasm for choice in public schools, Richard Kahlenberg argues for the economic integration of schools to create more middle-class learning environments.
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| Charter Schools and Racial and Social Class Segregation
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Camille Wilson Cooper,
Alejandra Lopez,
Jennifer Jellison Holme,
Amy Stuart Wells,
Century Foundation Press,
9/15/2000
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Even as society becomes more racially and ethnically diverse, our public schools are becoming more racially and ethnically homogeneous. Charter schools can either improve or reinforce this situation, depending on how stringently diversity regulations are enforced.
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| A Notion at Risk
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Richard D. Kahlenberg,
Century Foundation Press,
9/15/2000
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Focusing on the needs and shortcomings of urban public schools, especially those in poor neighborhoods, this volume’s contributing authors explore various facets of inequality in schooling and ask how different educational policies can reform our weakest schools.
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| Expanding the Supply of Quality Teachers
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Ruy Teixeira,
Thad Hall,
Catherine Bloniarz,
The Century Foundation,
8/9/2000
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In order to address the current shortage of qualified teachers, the federal government should promote an initiative for attracting them with higher salaries and cultivating them with higher qualification and performance standards. A Century Foundation Idea Brief.
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| Class Based Affirmative Action in College Admissions
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Richard D. Kahlenberg,
The Century Foundation,
5/24/2000
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To ensure greater fairness in the college admissions process and to maintain diversity at selective universities, affirmative action programs should be “mended” rather than “ended” so that preferences are provided on the basis of economic disadvantage. A Century Foundation Idea Brief.
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| Universal Preschool
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Eric Rhodes,
The Century Foundation,
3/28/2000
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Although public education has historically been viewed as an equalizing institution, educational inequality usually begins before children enter school. A federally supported universal preschool program would ensure that quality preschool education is available to every child in America.
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| Economic School Integration
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Richard D. Kahlenberg,
The Century Foundation,
2/4/2000
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A system of public school choice and a commitment by school officials to ensure that, in all public schools, a majority of students comes from middle-class households could promote genuinely equal educational opportunity for America’s students. A Century Foundation Idea Brief.
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| Kids Who Pick the Wrong Parents and Other Victims of Voucher Schemes
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Gordon MacInnes,
The Century Foundation,
9/1/1999
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Investigating the debate over voucher programs.
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| The Way We Were?
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Richard Rothstein,
Century Foundation Press,
9/1/1998
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American public education is better than we think.
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| Hard Lessons
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Carol Ascher,
Robert Berne,
Norm Fruchter,
Century Foundation Press,
12/15/1996
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This report argues that the strong rhetoric asserting that the privatization of the nation’s public schools, using tax dollars, can lead to a no-cost improvement in urban schools is based on wishful thinking.
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| Facing the Challenge: Report of the Task Force on School Governance
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Century Foundation Press,
4/15/1992
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Believing that other educational reform efforts will have only limited impact until the role of governance is addressed and the question of how basic decisions are made is answered, the Task Force report calls for fundamental changes in the structure and operation of the institutions of local educational governance.
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