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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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What Obama's Education Speech Was Missing
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Richard D. Kahlenberg,
The Century Foundation,
3/10/2009
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In President Barack Obama's speech on education today to the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, he outlined four pillars of K-12 school reform: Investing in early childhood initiatives; encouraging better standards and tests; recruiting, preparing and rewarding outstanding teachers; and promoting innovation through charter schools and longer school days and school years. These are mostly very good and important ideas, worthy of support, but I was left wondering about a fifth pillar -- the need to attack the fountainhead of unequal schooling: our system of educating low-income and minority students separately from middle-class and white students. Especially before an audience of Latinos, whose children are more segregated in schools even than African Americans, why not address this question head-on? Continue Reading on the Taking Note Blog.
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