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Gordon MacInnes, Century Foundation Press, 1/9/2009
Improving On No Child Left Behind: Getting Education Reform Back on Track
Richard D. Kahlenberg, Century Foundation Press, 10/15/2008
America's Untapped Resource
Richard D. Kahlenberg, Century Foundation Press, 1/14/2004
Public School Choice vs. Private School Vouchers
Richard D. Kahlenberg, Century Foundation Press, 9/24/2003
Can Separate Be Equal? The Overlooked Flaw at the Center of No Child Left Behind
Richard D. Kahlenberg, The Century Foundation, 4/23/2004
Divided We Fail: Coming Together through Public School Choice
The Century Foundation, Century Foundation Press, 9/18/2002
All Together Now
Richard D. Kahlenberg, Brookings Institution Press, 2/15/2001
A Notion at Risk
Richard D. Kahlenberg, Century Foundation Press, 9/15/2000
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Leaving Too Many Children Behind: A Demographer’s View on the Neglect of America’s Youngest Children
Harold L.  Hodgkinson, Institute for Educational Leadership, 4/1/2003

Long before children knock on the kindergarten door—during the crucial period from birth to age five when humans learn more than during any other five-year period—forces have already been put in place that encourage some children to “shine” and fulfill their potential in school and life while other forces stunt the growth and development of children who have just as much potential. The cost to the nation in terms of talent unfulfilled and lives of promise wasted is enormous. Certainly, efforts to even the playing field from kindergarten onward are useful, but they have to begin by dealing with the deficits created in many children from birth to age five. 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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