Richard D. Kahlenberg, Former Senior Fellow
Richard D. Kahlenberg is a senior fellow at the Progressive Policy Institute and was formerly a senior fellow at The Century Foundation. He is the author of Excluded: How Snob Zoning, NIMBYism and Class Bias Build the Walls We Don’t See (PublicAffairs, 2023).
Can Separate Be Equal? The Overlooked Flaw at the Center of No Child Left Behind
“Can Separate Be Equal?” studies how the No Child Left Behind Act—despite important goals and high standards for student achievement—is more focused on remedying symptoms than their causes. The overlooked flaw at the heart of NCLB is its failure to recognize the effects of concentrated poverty in American schools or to address this issue through interdistrict transfers or other measures.
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