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| Middle-Class Schools for All
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Richard D. Kahlenberg,
Democracy Journal,
3/1/2008
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Senior Fellow, Richard D. Kahlenberg discusses middle-class school integration in the Spring 2008 issue of the Democracy Journal.
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Download the article here (PDF).
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| Racial Diversity in Public Schools
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CQ Researcher,
CQ Researcher,
9/14/2007
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View Report (PDF).
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| Rethinking High School Graduation Rates and Trends
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Economic Policy Institute,
4/1/2006
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This study reviews the available data on high school completion and dropout rates and their historical trends and finds that high school completion has been increasing and dropouts declining for over 40 years, though the improvements have been modest over the last 10 years or so.
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Link to Book
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| Student Loans in Bush's Budget
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Center for American Progress,
2/7/2006
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If 100 percent of loans were disbursed through the direct loan program, the savings could be redirected to the Pell Grant Program to provide up to 1.5 million new grants to students.
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Link to Report
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| School Admissions in the United States: Policy, Research and Practice
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Josh Hillman,
Institute For Public Policy Research,
1/25/2006
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This paper reviews and distills a considerable body of U.S. evidence from research and practice to inform the school admissions policy debate in the United Kingdom.
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Link to Report
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| No Child Left Behind: How to Give It a Passing Grade
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Brown Center on Education Policy ,
12/1/2005
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The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) has the potential to improve many of America's schools, but this potential is currently undermined by serious flaws in how the program evaluates school performance.
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Link to Report
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| Getting Smarter, Becoming Fairer
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Center for American Progress,
8/23/2005
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A progressive education agenda for a stronger nation.
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Link to Report
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| Restoring the Balance between Academics and Civic Engagement in Public Schools
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American Youth Policy Forum ,
4/1/2005
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Although the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 refocused a generation-long emphasis on the importance of “core” subjects such as math and reading in our schools, this heightened concern with academics has a blind spot.
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Link to Report (PDF)
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| Brookings, Princeton Announce Publication of First Joint Future of Children Journal
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Patrick Glavin,
Brookings Institution Press,
Woodrow Wilson School,
2/9/2005
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The publication of the first volume of the Future of Children journal called
"School Readiness: Closing Racial and Ethnic Gaps," focuses on children's lives before they get to kindergarten in an effort to understand how to close the racial and ethnic gaps in school achievement.
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Link to Report
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| Affordability of Postsecondary Education: Equity and Adequacy Across the 50 States
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Edward P. St. John,
Center for American Progress,
Institute for America's Future,
1/1/2005
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Inequality in financial access to postsecondary education for low-income students in the U.S. and disparities in financial access across states.
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Link to Report
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| Leave No Teacher Behind
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Carmel Martin,
Center for American Progress,
12/20/2004
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Recent research that tracks individual student progress demonstrates that if students consistently have high quality teachers, we can make real progress in closing achievement gaps. Unfortunately, young people with high SAT and ACT scores are much less likely to elect teaching as a career than other professions, and those who do are twice as likely to leave the profession after only a few years.
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Link to Report
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| Fast Track to College: Increasing Postsecondary Success for All Students
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Hillary Pennington,
Center for American Progress,
12/10/2004
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Access to family-supporting jobs now requires education or training beyond high school, but college is becoming less affordable and the education “pipeline” from high school to and through college remains shockingly inefficient, despite the reform efforts of the past several decades.
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Link to Report
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| Constituents of Change: Community Organizations and Public Education Reform
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Kavitha Mediratta,
Institute for Education and Social Policy,
9/1/2004
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In urban communities across America, organizations like PACT (People Acting for Community Together) are increasingly intervening in public school reform.
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Link to Report (PDF)
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| Renewing Our Schools, Securing Our Future: A National Task Force on Public Education
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Center for American Progress,
Institute for America's Future,
8/27/2004
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American public schools have not kept up with the times. We've entered the 21st century, but in fundamental ways our school system reflects the needs and realities of a bygone era.
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New Link to Report
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| The Source of the River
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Douglas S. Massey,
Garvey Lundy,
Camille Charles,
Mary Fischer,
Princeton University Press,
6/24/2004
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Tracing the roots of minority underperformance in selective colleges and universities.
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Order Online
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| Collected Education Columns
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Richard Rothstein,
Economic Policy Institute,
4/1/2004
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The Economic Policy Institute has launched a searchable online archive of education scholar and TCF author Richard Rothstein's New York Times columns.
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Visit the Archive
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| High Point High Schools Choice/Magnet Plan
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Guilford County School District, Greensboro, North Carolina,
4/1/2004
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Read the plan for public school choice in Guildford County and background materials highlighting research on the benefits of socioeconomic integration.
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Link to Report
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| Charter School Funding in New York: Perspectives on Parity with Traditional Public Schools
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Robin Jacobowitz,
Jonathan S. Gyurko,
Institute for Education and Social Policy,
3/1/2004
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The New York State Charter Schools Act, passed in 198, identifies a bundle of resources available to charter schools from a variety of local, state, and federal sources. Yet since the passage of the Act, and since New York State’s first five charter schools opened their doors in the fall of 1999, charter school advocates and operators have argued that this funding is insufficient.
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Link to Report (PDF)
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| The Finance Gap: Charter Schools and Their Facilities
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Institute for Education and Social Policy,
1/1/2004
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Districts across the country are facing unmet needs for the renovation and construction of public school facilities, dwindling capital funding streams, and voter resistance to property tax increases. Our study focuses on fourteen states and the District of Columbia, jurisdictions which house 75 percent of the nation’s charter schools and have a high need for public school facilities caused by student growth and/or facilities repair needs.
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Link to Report (PDF)
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| ECS Report to the Nation
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Education Commission of the States,
1/1/2004
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According to the Education Commission of the States, this is the most comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of states' progress toward implementing the No Child Left Behind Act, is available on our Web site.
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Link to Report
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| Preparing School Principals: A National Perspective on Policy and Program Innovations
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Elizabeth Hale,
Hunter Moorman,
Institute for Educational Leadership,
9/1/2003
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Laser-like attention is being focused on one of the variables critical to effective education: leadership. Today, school leadership — more specifically, the principalship — is a front burner issue in every state.
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Link to Report (PDF)
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| Annual Poll on the Public's Attitudes Toward Public Schools
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Gallup Polling,
Gallup,
9/1/2003
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The poll focuses on NCLB, the extension of the Elementary and
Secondary Education Act, which became law in January 2002.
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Link to Report (PDF)
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| Conversation on School Vouchers
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Economic Policy Institute,
6/12/2003
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Five experts on what policy significance, if any, can be derived from the body of research on school vouchers.
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Read the Publication
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| Making the Difference: Research and Practice in Community Schools
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Martin J. Blank,
Atelia Melaville,
Bela P. Shah,
Coalition for Community Schools,
5/1/2003
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Universal education is a valued tradition in America, and with good reason— a democracy rises and falls on the education of its children. Universal, however, does not necessarily mean equal or even adequate.
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Link to Report
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| Leaving Too Many Children Behind: A Demographer’s View on the Neglect of America’s Youngest Children
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Harold L. Hodgkinson,
Institute for Educational Leadership,
4/1/2003
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No common structure exists in the United States to serve all children before their fifth birthday, although this is the most vulnerable period in terms of the forces that can hinder or promote social, psychological, and intellectual development.
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Link to Report (PDF)
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| Economically Segregate Schools Hurt Poor Kids, Study Shows
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Alan Gottlieb,
The Piton Foundation,
5/1/2002
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A study indicates that grouping high concentrations of low-income Denver students in neighborhood schools stifles their potential achievement.
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Link to Paper (PDF)
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| Inequality at the Starting Gate
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Valerie E. Lee,
David T. Burkam,
Economic Policy Institute,
1/1/2002
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An EPI study by two education experts from the University of Michigan analyzing the learning gap between rich and pooor children when they enter kindergarten.
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Learn more about the book
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| Rhetoric versus Reality
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Brian P. Gill,
RAND,
1/1/2001
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This book seeks to identify and articulate the full range of empirical questions that must be answered to fully assess the wisdom of policies that promote either voucher or charter policies for our nation's public education system.
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Order Online
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| Lasting Benefits of Preschool Programs
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Lawrence Schweinhart,
ERIC Digest,
6/1/1994
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Learn more about the report
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| Evidence-Based Reform: Advancing the Education of Students at Risk
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Center for American Progress
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Despite some recent improvements, the academic achievement of American students remains below that of those in most industrialized nations, and the gap between African American and Hispanic students and White students remains substantial.
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Link to Report
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