By Greg Anrig
Published by The Century Foundation Press, April 4, 2013
While the “education wars” dominate media coverage of school reform debates, largely unnoticed research is mounting that student outcomes are strongest in districts pursuing intensive collaboration among teachers and administrators—the inverse of the conflicts that attract so much attention. Beyond the Education Wars: Evidence That Collaboration Builds Effective Schools presents the best available research examining the connections between student outcomes and organizational practices, as well as case studies of districts that broke free from the ideological trenches that have proven to be so unproductive.
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By Alan S. Blinder, Andrew W. Lo, Robert M. Solow, editors
Published by Russell Sage Foundation, December 19, 2012
In its wide-ranging inquiry into the financial crash, Rethinking the Financial Crisis marshals an impressive collection of rigorous and yet empirically-relevant research that, in some respects, upsets the conventional wisdom about the [...]
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By Richard D. Kahlenberg, Halley Potter
Published by The Century Foundation, October 3, 2012
The U.S. Supreme Court case Fisher v. Texas could dramatically alter or eliminate race-based admissions policies at colleges and universities. In a new report, A Better Affirmative Action, Senior Fellow Richard [...]
By Tova Wang
Published by Cornell University Press, August 16, 2012
The Politics of Voter Suppression arrives in time to assess actual practices at the polls this fall and to reengage with debates about voter suppression tactics such as requiring specific forms [...]
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By Richard D. Kahlenberg, Halley Potter
Published by The Century Foundation, May 23, 2012
This report explores how some innovative charter schools are pursuing efforts to integrate students from different racial and economic backgrounds in their classrooms. [...]
By Richard D. Kahlenberg, Moshe Marvit
Published by The Century Foundation Press, April 3, 2012
Of the many causes of increased inequality—globalization, changes in technology, and the adoption of regressive tax policies—the virtual collapse of the American labor movement over the past quarter-century [...]
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By Tony Smith
Published by Princeton University Press, March 12, 2012
America's Mission argues that the global strength and prestige of democracy today are due in large part to America's impact on international affairs. [...]
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By Richard D. Kahlenberg, editor
Published by The Century Foundation Press, February 27, 2012
Almost fifty years ago the Coleman Report, widely regarded as the most important educational study of the twentieth century, found that the most powerful predictor of academic achievement is the socioeconomic status [...]
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By Monica Youn, editor
Published by The Century Foundation Press, May 9, 2011
In the wake of Citizens United, top constitional scholars launch a new jurisprudence to address the rise of unfettered money in politics. What is next for the First Amendment? And how can [...]
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By Lakhdar Brahimi, Thomas R. Pickering
Published by The Century Foundation Press, March 31, 2011
This report, the product of an international task force led by ambassadors Lakhdar Brahimi and Thomas R. Pickering, recommends a political path toward ending the war in Afghanistan. Peace is possible, the [...]
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By Richard D. Kahlenberg, editor
Published by The Century Foundation Press, September 15, 2010
Affirmative Action for the Rich sketches the origins of legacy preferences, examines the philosophical issues they raise, outlines the extent of their use today, studies their impact on university fundraising, and reviews [...]
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By Richard D. Kahlenberg, editor
Published by The Century Foundation Press, June 3, 2010
Today, higher education is a major force in promoting social mobility, yet colleges and universities seem more concerned with prestige than finding ways to make higher learning more accessible. Rewarding Strivers outlines [...]
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By Robert M. Ball
Published by The Century Foundation Press, April 23, 2010
The National Commission on Social Security Reform—better known as the Greenspan Commission—is widely credited with tackling the financing crisis Social Security faced in the 1980s. The National Commission [...]
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By Jeffrey R. Henig
Published by Russell Sage Foundation, December 8, 2009
In Spin Cycle, noted political scientist and education expert Jeffrey Henig explores how controversies over the charter school movement illustrate the use and misuse of research in policy debates. [...]
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By Morton H. Halperin, Michael Hochman Fuchs
Published by The Century Foundation Press, November 3, 2009
In this passionate and persuasive book, Morton Halperin and Michael Fuchs argue that abandoning the promotion of democracy would be a great mistake. Patient efforts over the past three decades have laid [...]
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By Amy Dean, David B. Reynolds
Published by Cornell University Press, August 13, 2009
In A New New Deal, the labor movement leaders Amy B. Dean and David B. Reynolds offer a bold new plan to revitalize American labor activism and build a sense of common [...]
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By Gordon MacInnes
Published by The Century Foundation Press, January 28, 2009
This is a story about what happens when a state education department partners with city school districts in an attempt to close the achievement gap between poor, minority city students and their [...]
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By Richard D. Kahlenberg, editor
Published by The Century Foundation Press, September 1, 2008
In Improving on No Child Left Behind, leading authorities assess the evidence around three central critiques of the act: that NCLB is underfunded; that the standards, testing, and accountability provisions are deeply [...]
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By James F. Dobbins
Published by The Century Foundation, August 10, 2008
In this paper, Dobbins argues that “nation-building” is now firmly back on the national and international agendas, and that the experience of activities led by the United States in Afghanistan [...]
By Henry J. Aaron, Jeanne M. Lambrew
Published by Brookings Institution Press, May 1, 2008
Everyone agrees on the need to reform Medicare but not on how to do it. In Reforming Medicare, Henry J. Aaron and Jeanne M. Lambrew deftly guide readers through this complex debate, [...]
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By John P. MacKenzie
Published by The Century Foundation Press, January 30, 2008
In Absolute Power, John P. MacKenzie looks at the origins and history of the unitary executive theory, examining its broad claims of presidential power in the light of the founders’ original [...]
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By Jeffrey Laurenti, Carl Robichaud , editors
Published by The Century Foundation Press, August 1, 2007
Curbing nuclear weapons has never been a more urgent priority for nations both great and small, but the global system of nuclear controls seems paralyzed. Have the instruments that once worked so [...]
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By Greg Anrig, Richard C. Leone, editors
Published by PublicAffairs, April 10, 2007
In this volume, experts, activists, and scholars report on the diverse actions, taken in the name of security, that will serve to undermine American liberties, and explain why the consequences of these [...]
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By Arnold Relman
Published by PublicAffairs, April 6, 2007
Dr. Arnold Relman, Professor Emeritus at Harvard Medical School and former editor-in-chief of The New England Journal of Medicine, brings together sixty years of experience in medicine in a book that holds [...]
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By Kenneth Pyle
Published by PublicAffairs, January 29, 2007
After more than half a century of withdrawal from international politics Japan is back. What are the implications for the rest of the world? [...]
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By Greg Anrig, Tova Wang, editors
Published by The Century Foundation Press, January 1, 2007
Since 1995, immigrants increasingly have bypassed the traditional gateway states—California, Texas, Illinois, Florida, New York, and New Jersey—in favor of new frontiers, and twenty-two other states have experienced extremely [...]
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By Peter R. Orszag, J. Mark Iwry, William G. Gale, editors
Published by The Century Foundation Press, August 1, 2006
Aging Gracefully gathers a collection of essays that highlight policy ideas for promoting greater retirement savings among Americans. [...]
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Published by The Century Foundation, June 15, 2006
Stem Cells and Public Policy provides a concise, comprehensive overview of the implications of stem cell research for the development for public policy. [...]
By Edward N. Wolff
Published by Oxford Unversity Press, April 25, 2006
This book challenges the conventional wisdom that greater schooling and skill improvement leads to higher wages, that income inequality falls with wider access to schooling, and that the Information Technology revolution will [...]
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Published by The Century Foundation Press, March 1, 2006
Apart at the Seams explores how this collapse of private sector retirement and health benefits came about and how it has affected the landscape of American social insurance. [...]
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By Morton Abramowitz, Stephen Bosworth
Published by The Century Foundation Press, February 1, 2006
Chasing the Sun addresses major policy problems of East Asia—from the management of our relations with China to the North Korean nuclear problem to the growth of East Asian regionalism. [...]
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By Joan Fitzgerald
Published by Cornell University Press, January 12, 2006
Moving Up in the New Economy explores specific programs in different sectors of the economy—health care, child care, education, manufacturing, and biotechnology—to offer a comprehensive analysis of this [...]
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By Jonas Pontusson
Published by Cornell University Press, December 15, 2005
Inequality and Prosperity provides a comparative overview of the two major models of labor markets and welfare systems in the advanced industrial world: the "liberal capitalist" system of the United States and [...]
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Published by The Century Foundation Press, July 30, 2005
The Century Foundation assembled the Post-2004 Election Working Group to find ways for states to implement future elections in a way that balances ballot integrity with voting rights and accessibility. This report [...]
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By Stephen J. Schulhofer
Published by The Century Foundation Press, June 15, 2005
In Rethinking the Patriot Act, Stephen J. Schulhofer explains the act's most important provisions and reviews the best information currently available to gauge their usefulness and their effects in practice. [...]
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Published by Century Foundation Press, August 15, 2004
Defeating the Jihadists: A Blueprint for Action assesses the nation's successes and failures on homeland security and calls for a stronger, more effective strategy for dealing with jihadists, including al Qaeda. [...]
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By Richard D. Kahlenberg, editor
Published by Century Foundation Press, January 13, 2004
A series of policy changes in federal and state governments, and at universities, have made it exceedingly difficult for students from low-income and working-class families to earn college degrees. In America's [...]
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By Richard D. Kahlenberg, editor
Published by The Century Foundation Press, December 15, 2003
In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision upholding the constitutionality of public funding for private religious schools, the debate over private school vouchers has intensified. At the same [...]
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By Kevin Mattson
Published by The Century Foundation Press, April 1, 2003
Analyzing the historical context to assess the extent to which youth have participated in the political process throughout the twentieth century, Engaging Youth makes the case for more extensive educational programs, public [...]
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Published by The Century Foundation Press, March 31, 2003
The United States and Turkey examines the changing relationship between Turkey and the United States, taking into account the continuing crisis in the Middle East and west Asia, the uncertainty over Cyprus, [...]
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By The Century Foundation Task Force on the Common School
Published by The Century Foundation Press, September 1, 2002
Most of the education reform community has sought ways to make "separate but equal" schooling work better, but is this really the best course for our students? This report by The Century [...]
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By The Century Foundation Working Group on Tax Expenditures
Published by The Century Foundation Press, September 1, 2002
As Congress and the White House move forward on reforming our tax system, policymakers are looking with increased scrutiny at the hundreds of tax expenditures that cost the United States as much [...]
Published by The Brookings Institution Press, February 21, 2001
This provocative book asks a simple question: Since we know that middle class schools tend to work best, why not give every child in America the opportunity to attend a public school [...]
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By Richard D. Kahlenberg, editor
Published by The Century Foundation Press, September 15, 2000
This volume of essays seeks to restore the notion that public education should be an engine for social mobility, a concern that animated Brown v. Board of Education and the 1965 Elementary and [...]
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By Robert Eisner
Published by The Century Foundation Press, February 28, 1998
In this clearly written, provocative report, Eisner rejects the most alarmist views about the solvency of Social Security and provides a blueprint for keeping the system strong and fair. He makes the [...]
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