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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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Public School Choice and Integration
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The Century Foundation
2/22/2001
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
National Press Club, Washington, DC
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Featuring Richard Kahlenberg, Sandra Feldman, Ann Majestic, and Steven A. Holmes.
President Bush's education plan, including its call for private school vouchers, has spawned two major responses from voucher opponents. Some emphasize the need to improve existing neighborhood schools with programs to reduce class size, improve teacher training, raise academic standards, and invest more in early childhood education. Other voucher opponents have emphasized the need for greater public school choice as a way of freeing children from inadequate low income schools without giving up on public education.
Does President Bush's premise - that student assignment based on residence is fundamentally unfair to those who cannot afford to live in better neighborhoods - offer the opportunity for progressive reform? Should communities follow the lead of Wake County, North Carolina, which recently adopted a plan to better integrate
the low income student population?
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