Education

Most K-12 education reforms are about trying to make "separate but equal" schools for rich and poor work well. The results of these efforts have been discouraging. The Century Foundation looks at ways to integrate public schools by economic status through public school choice.  At the higher education level, we examine ways to open the doors of selective and non-selective institutions to students of modest means.

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Senior Fellow Richard D. Kahlenberg

Richard D. Kahlenberg is a senior fellow at The Century Foundation and writes about education, equal opportunity, and civil rights.

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  Richard D. Kahlenberg’s Commentary on Fisher v. Texas

  Earlier this week, the U.S. Supreme Court decided to hear Fisher v. Texas, the most recent legal challenge to affirmative action. Century Foundation...
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  Century Foundation Convenes National Task Force to Recommend Ways to Strengthen Community Colleges

  Panel Will Seek to Address Growing Racial and Economic Divide between Two- and Four-Year Institutions
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  Richard Kahlenberg on CUNY's City Talk

  Richard D. Kahlenberg discusses his book "Tough Liberal: Albert Shanker and the Battles Over Schools, Unions, Race and Democracy" on CUNY's City Talk.
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  Public Schools Have a Public Purpose

  Richard Kahlenberg participates in New York Time's Room for Debate.
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  Rewarding Strivers: Helping Low-Income Students Succeed in College

  Richard Kahlenberg's PowerPoint presentation as keynote speaker at a University of Wisconsin conference on higher education.
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  Can NCLB Choice Work? Modeling the Effects of Interdistrict Choice on Student Access to Higher-Performing Schools

  A new TCF report of the No Child Left Behind legislation by Meredith P. Richards, Kori J. Stroub and Jennifer Jellison Holme.
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  The Charter School No-Pension “Innovation”

  When Albert Shanker first proposed charter schools in 1988, he envisioned institutions where teachers could try new and creative...
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  Improving the Odds for Failing Schools

  A new issue brief by Gordon MacInnes takes a close look at the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and the Race to the Top programs.
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  Housing Policy Is School Policy

  Heather Schwartz suggests that a promising strategy to make high-poverty schools better involves providing low-income families a chance to live in more-advantaged neighborhoods, where their children can attend low-poverty public schools.
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  Turnaround Schools That Work: Moving Beyond Separate but Equal

  Education Secretary Arne Duncan’s far-reaching efforts to transform the country’s lowest performing schools into successful ones, don’t reach far enough according to a new report from The Century Foundation. In “Turnaround Schools That Work: Moving Beyond Separate but Equal,” TCF Senior Fellow Richard Kahlenberg details why ‘turnaround” approaches that focus on changing principals and teachers but fail to address issues related to parents and students, have fallen short of expectations.

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