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| Economic School Integration: An Update |
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Richard D. Kahlenberg,
The Century Foundation,
9/18/2002
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| An update on the research and policy developments that occurred in the two and a half years following the publication of Economic School Integration. Significant growth in the number of students attending economically integrated schools, plus additional positive research on the topic, make the case for economic schools integration even stronger. |
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| Economic School Integration |
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Richard D. Kahlenberg,
The Century Foundation,
2/4/2000
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| A system of public school choice and a commitment by school officials to ensure that, in all public schools, a majority of students comes from middle-class households could promote genuinely equal educational opportunity for America’s students. A Century Foundation Idea Brief. |
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| Commentary |
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| Does Obama Believe in School Integration? |
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Richard D. Kahlenberg,
The Century Foundation,
11/17/2009
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| Over the past 10 months, we’ve heard a great deal about the Obama Administration’s support for charter schools, education standards, and performance pay for teachers. But what does the Administration think of racial and socioeconomic school integration? On Friday, a slew of major civil rights organizations held a national conference at Howard University Law School and invited several key Obama Administration officials to speak, including Carmel Martin, Assistant Secretary for Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development at the Department of Education; Russlynn Ali, the Education Department’s Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights; and Derek Douglas, Special Assistant to the President for Urban Affairs in the Domestic Policy Council. Continue Reading on the Taking Note Blog.
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| Housing Integration in Westchester |
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Richard D. Kahlenberg,
The Century Foundation,
8/12/2009
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Yesterday’s New York Times brought welcome news that suburban Westchester County New York had agreed to a landmark housing desegregation settlement to create more than 600 homes and apartments for moderate income residents in overwhelmingly white communities. For many people, the idea of integration – of housing and of schools – has a 1970's ring to it, but if we really want to provide equal opportunity for kids, and to fulfill the promise of a single nation, the Westchester agreement must be a harbinger of things to come.Continue Reading on the Taking Note Blog.
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| The Problem with Ethnic Charter Schools |
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Richard D. Kahlenberg,
The Century Foundation,
1/15/2009
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| On Monday, a committee of the New York State Board of Regents approved a proposal to create a Hebrew-language charter school in Brooklyn. The school is part of a growing movement among charter schools to target specific ethnic or racial groups. As Sara Rimer noted in a front page New York Times story on Saturday, there are 30 ethnic charter schools in Minnesota alone, catering to groups such as Somali, Ethiopian and Hmong immigrants. Continue Reading on the Taking Note Blog. |
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| Barack Obama, Tony Jack and Affirmative Action |
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Richard D. Kahlenberg,
The Century Foundation,
5/29/2007
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| Which academically talented student deserves a preference in college admissions—the African American daughter of Harvard educated lawyers, or the African American son of a high school educated school security guard? The traditional answer of most liberal advocates of affirmative action is “both.” Affirmative action is about creating racially diverse campuses, or combating racial discrimination, which knows no economic bounds. |
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| John Edwards’s Plan to Reduce Economic Segregation |
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Richard D. Kahlenberg,
The Century Foundation,
5/7/2007
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| In a front page Washington Post story today, reporter Alec MacGillis questions former Democratic Senator John Edwards’s signature idea for alleviating poverty: reducing economic segregation. Edwards argues, “if we truly believe that we are all equal, then we should live together too,” and proposes providing 1 million rental housing vouchers that the poor could use to live in more affluent neighborhoods. |
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| Reaching Justice Kennedy |
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Richard D. Kahlenberg,
The Century Foundation,
12/6/2006
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| This week, as the U.S. Supreme Court took up the constitutionality of voluntary racial school integration, all eyes were on Justice Anthony Kennedy. In two cases, which involve the question of whether the Seattle and Louisville school districts can use race as a factor in deciding where students attend elementary and secondary school, Kennedy is seen as the swing vote on a court whose other justices are likely split on the issue, 4–4. |
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| Integration by Income |
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Richard D. Kahlenberg,
American School Board Journal,
4/1/2006
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| Spurred in part by increased state and federal pressure to raise overall student achievement and to reduce the achievement gap between groups, a growing number of districts are pursuing policies of socioeconomic school integration. |
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| The Bad News and Good News About Brown |
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Richard D. Kahlenberg,
Voices in Urban Education,
8/1/2004
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| Century Foundation Senior Fellow Richard Kahlenberg looks back on the fifty years of education change since Brown v. Board of Education and finds both good and bad news. |
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| Brown at 100 |
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Richard D. Kahlenberg,
The Century Foundation,
5/17/2004
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| As we commemorate the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark
decision in Brown vs. Board of Education, overturning the policy of "separate
but equal" in schooling, much of the focus has been on the past. But it's
also important to ask where we're headed. What will schools look like 50 years
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| The Fall and Rise of School Segregation |
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Richard D. Kahlenberg,
The American Prospect,
5/21/2001
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| What are we to think of Brown v. Board of Education nearly a half-century after the Supreme Court handed down the decision? |
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| The Next Time, the Suburbs |
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Richard D. Kahlenberg,
Washington Post,
7/23/1999
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| The recent Boston School Committee case poignantly raises the question: What new policies can better promote equal educational opportunity in the next generation? |
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