Richard Rothstein

Research Associate

Richard Rothstein

Biography
Richard Rothstein is a research associate of the Economic Policy Institute. From 1999 to 2002 he was the national education columnist of The New York Times. He is the author of Grading Education: Getting Accountability Right (Teachers College Press and EPI, 2008) and Class and Schools: Using Social, Economic and Educational Reform to Close the Black-White Achievement Gap (Teachers College Press 2004). He is also the author of The Way We Were? Myths and Realities of America's Student Achievement (1998). Other recent books include The Charter School Dust-Up: Examining the Evidence on Enrollment and Achievement (co-authored in 2005); and All Else Equal. Are Public and Private Schools Different? (co-authored in 2003). Contact Richard Rothstein at riroth@epi.org.

 

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DateTitleType
03/24/10 Is education on the wrong track? Analysis & Opinion
03/16/10 Moment of Clarity Analysis & Opinion
02/01/10 Unions not an important impediment to removing ineffective teachers Analysis & Opinion
01/04/10 How the jobs crisis creates an education crisis Analysis & Opinion
08/13/09 Replacing No Child Left Behind Analysis & Opinion
07/21/09 College graduates: supply and demand Analysis & Opinion
01/23/09 Getting Accountability Right Analysis & Opinion
06/02/08 The Corruption of School Accountability Commentary
04/17/08 Whose Problem Is Poverty? Commentary
04/07/08 ‘A Nation at Risk’ Twenty-Five Years Later Commentary
01/01/08 Leaving ‘No Child Left Behind’ Behind Commentary
10/01/07 Schools as Scapegoats Commentary
03/05/07 A Test of Time: Unchanged Priorities for Student Outcomes Commentary
12/04/06 The Goals of Education Commentary
09/05/06 Should we repair ‘No Child Left Behind’ or Trade It In? Commentary
08/30/06 Social Class, Schooling and Achievement…Again Commentary
06/01/06 Reforms that could help narrow the achievement gap Commentary
01/18/06 Equity and Excellence in American Higher Education Commentary
12/23/05 Should the federal government be involved in school accountability? Commentary
05/19/04 Social class leaves its imprint Commentary
03/03/04 We Are Not Ready to Assess History Performance Commentary
04/25/03 Lessons—Students in a Fog Education Column Archive
10/30/02 Lessons—Juggling 3 School Goals, Texas Trips Education Column Archive
10/23/02 Lessons—Voter Mandates and Bilingual Education Education Column Archive
10/16/02 Lessons—With This Gift Horse, Take a Very Close Look Education Column Archive
10/09/02 Lessons—Dropout Rate Is Climbing and Likely to Go Higher Education Column Archive
10/02/02 Lessons—Books Often Give History a Facelift Education Column Archive
09/25/02 Lessons—Teacher Shortages Vanish When the Price Is Right Education Column Archive
09/18/02 Lessons—How U.S. Punishes States With Higher Standards Education Column Archive
09/11/02 Lessons—Rx for Good Health and Good Grades Education Column Archive
09/04/02 Lessons—Conservatives, Teachers Unions and Poisoned Debate Education Column Archive
08/28/02 Lessons—Better at Sums Than at Summarizing: The SAT Gap Education Column Archive
08/21/02 Lessons—Schools’ Chosen Cure for Money Ills: A Sugar Pill Education Column Archive
08/07/02 Lessons—Schools Can Use Help Teaching Parents to Get Involved Education Column Archive
07/24/02 Lessons—Fairy Tales as a Learning Tool for Young Offenders Education Column Archive
07/10/02 Lessons—Raising School Standards and Cutting Budget: Huh? Education Column Archive
07/03/02 Lessons—Failed Schools? The Meaning Is Unclear Education Column Archive
06/26/02 Lessons—Some Fair Steps to Take Before Firing Teachers Education Column Archive
06/19/02 Lessons—A Voucher Program Flunks Special Ed Education Column Archive
06/12/02 Lessons—The Other Role for the Urban School Education Column Archive
06/05/02 Lessons—When Mothers on Welfare Go to Work Education Column Archive
05/22/02 Lessons—Testing Reaches a Fork in the Road Education Column Archive
05/15/02 Lessons—Court Lacks Last Word in Aid to Religious Schools Education Column Archive
05/01/02 Lessons—States Teeter When Balancing Standards With Tests Education Column Archive
05/01/02 Lessons—Two Cities, Two Elections and Two Different Worlds Education Column Archive
04/24/02 Lessons—A Melting Pot Recipe for Immigrant Students Education Column Archive
04/17/02 Lessons—Mr. Mayor, Schools Chief. Mr. Fix-It Is Another Story Education Column Archive
04/10/02 Lessons—Schools, Accountability and a Sheaf of Fuzzy Math Education Column Archive
04/03/02 Lessons—Getting Far Too Much of a Good Thing Education Column Archive
03/29/02 Lessons—News Analysis—Fuzzy Data on Race Education Column Archive
03/27/02 Lessons—National Test Is Out of Tune With Times Education Column Archive
03/20/02 Lessons—Between Public and Private, a Third Way Education Column Archive
03/13/02 Lessons—Parents Play Crucial Role in Expanding Universities Education Column Archive
03/06/02 Lessons—Going Beyond Mere Facts in the Study of History Education Column Archive
02/27/02 Lessons—Recognizing the Secret Value of Lunchroom Duty Education Column Archive
02/20/02 Lessons—Apples, Oranges and Eighth Graders Education Column Archive
02/13/02 Lessons—The Other Side of Choice - After Top Students Leave Education Column Archive
02/06/02 Lessons—Linking Infant Mortality to Schooling and Stress Education Column Archive
01/30/02 Lessons—When Tried, Real Integration Provess Worthwhile Education Column Archive
01/23/02 Lessons—Let Education Guide Welfare Education Column Archive
01/16/02 Lessons—Created: Bigger U.S. Role; Evolving: What the Role Is Education Column Archive
01/09/02 Lessons—In Some Important Ways, the Day Only Starts at 3 Education Column Archive
01/02/02 Lessons—Augmenting a Home-School Education Education Column Archive
12/19/01 Lessons—The Education Bill: Many Trials Ahead Education Column Archive
12/12/01 Lessons—An Economic Recovery Will Tell in the Classroom Education Column Archive
12/05/01 Lessons—Doubling of A’s at Harvard: Grade Inflation or Brains? Education Column Archive
11/28/01 Lessons— Statistics, a Tool for Life, Is Getting Short Shrift Education Column Archive
11/21/01 Lessons—Forming the Hand That Holds the Chalk Education Column Archive
11/14/01 Lessons—Assessing Money’s Role in Making Schools Better Education Column Archive
11/07/01 Lessons—Politics and Curriculum: How History Is Taught Education Column Archive
10/31/01 Lessons—Linking Poor Performance to Working After School Education Column Archive
10/24/01 Lessons—Hindsight Gives History Its ‘Best’ Young Soldiers Education Column Archive
10/17/01 Lessons—Terror and Teachers, and Excuses and Explanations Education Column Archive
10/10/01 Lessons—National Crises, Real and Imagined Education Column Archive
10/03/01 Lessons—Decrees on Fixing Schools May Fail the Reality Test Education Column Archive
09/26/01 Lessons—The other war, against intolerance Education Column Archive
09/19/01 Lessons—Teach More Than Where to Put H in Afghanistan Education Column Archive
09/12/01 Lessons—Doing the Voucher Math Is Not as Easy as It Seems Education Column Archive
09/05/01 Lessons—Consensus in Reading War If Sides Would Only Look Education Column Archive
08/29/01 Lessons—SAT Scores Aren’t Up. Not Bad, Not Bad at All. Education Column Archive
08/15/01 Lessons—One Answer on College Doesn’t Fit All Graduates Education Column Archive
08/01/01 Lessons—When There’s Simply Not Enough Food for Thought Education Column Archive
07/18/01 Lessons—In Standardized Tests, Standards Vary Education Column Archive
07/11/01 Lessons—What Produces Voters? Apparently Not Civics Classes Education Column Archive
07/04/01 Lessons—True or False: Schools Fail Immigrants Education Column Archive
06/27/01 Lessons—To Peace on Math’s Battlefield Education Column Archive
06/20/01 Lessons—Vouchers Dead, Alternatives Weak Education Column Archive
05/30/01 Lessons—A Rebellion Is Growing Against Required Tests Education Column Archive
05/23/01 Lessons—How to Ease the Burden of Homework for Families Education Column Archive
05/16/01 Lessons—Weighing Students’ Skills and Attitudes Education Column Archive
05/09/01 Lessons—Flaws in Voucher Findings Education Column Archive
05/02/01 Lessons—New Ingredient in a Voucher Plan Education Column Archive
04/25/01 Lessons—How Tax Code Worsens Education Gap Education Column Archive
04/18/01 Lessons—Novel Way on Teacher Pay Education Column Archive
04/11/01 Lessons—A Misstep in the Senate Education Column Archive
04/04/01 Lessons—A Passover Way to Teach Education Column Archive
03/28/01 Lessons—The SAT Debate Ought to Be Broader Education Column Archive
03/21/01 Lessons— In the Kindergartens, a Misguided Push Education Column Archive
03/14/01 Lessons—There’s More to Reading Than Phonics Education Column Archive
03/07/01 Lessons—Seeing Achievement Gains By an Attack on Poverty Education Column Archive
02/28/01 Lessons—‘Scaffolding’ Is Raised, and So Are Sights Education Column Archive
02/21/01 Lessons—A Worthwhile Substitute for the Regents Exams Education Column Archive
02/14/01 Lessons—A School District Refuses to Worship Scores Alone Education Column Archive
02/07/01 Lessons—Of Schools and Crimes, and Gross Exaggeration Education Column Archive
01/31/01 Lessons—Lessons From Afar, Some Worthwhile Education Column Archive
01/24/01 Lessons—Flaws in Annual Testing Education Column Archive
01/17/01 Lessons—Does Money Not Matter? The Data Suggest It Does Education Column Archive
01/11/01 Lessons—The Challenge: The Unforeseen Costs of Raising Academic Standards Education Column Archive
01/10/01 Lessons—Let the Questioning Begin Education Column Archive
01/03/01 Lessons—Poverty and Achievement, And Great Misconceptions Education Column Archive
12/20/00 Lessons—Limits? What Limits? I.Q. and Brain Research Education Column Archive
12/13/00 Lessons—Judging Vouchers’ Merits Proves to Be Difficult Task Education Column Archive
12/06/00 Lessons—How to Help Solve the Teacher Shortage Education Column Archive
11/29/00 Lessons—Are the Three R’s Crowding Out P.E.? Education Column Archive
11/22/00 Lessons—For Teaching’s Real Pros, Coaches on the Sidelines Education Column Archive
11/15/00 Lessons—Polls Only Confuse Education Policy Education Column Archive
11/08/00 Lessons—Bilingual Ed: Debunking Double Talk Education Column Archive
11/01/00 Lessons—Supply, Demand, Wages and Myth Education Column Archive
10/25/00 Lessons—Add Social Changes to the Factors Affecting Declining Test Scores Education Column Archive
10/18/00 Lessons—Better Than a Voucher, a Ticket to Suburbia Education Column Archive
10/11/00 Lessons—When Culture Affects How We Learn Education Column Archive
10/04/00 Lessons—Offering Students a Hand to Move Up Education Column Archive
09/27/00 Lessons—Reality Check is Overdue In Preventing Drug Abuse Education Column Archive
09/13/00 Lessons—How Tests Can Drop The Ball Education Column Archive
09/06/00 Lessons—How to Create a Skilled-Labor Shortage Education Column Archive
08/30/00 Lessons—Positive Trends Hidden in SAT and ACT Scores Education Column Archive
08/02/00 Lessons—Bush’s Confusing Message on Education Education Column Archive
07/19/00 Lessons—Results of Clinton Gamble on Education Are Unclear Education Column Archive
07/05/00 Lessons—Rethinking Special Needs Without Losing Ground Education Column Archive
06/21/00 Lessons—A City Rebels Against State Standards Education Column Archive
06/07/00 Lessons—Creationists’ Approach: Separating Fact and Theory Education Column Archive
05/24/00 Lessons—Accountability by Tests Alone Shortchanges Schools Education Column Archive
05/10/00 Lessons—Education and Job Growth Education Column Archive
04/26/00 Lessons—Making a Case Against Performance Pay Education Column Archive
04/12/00 Lessons—A Teacher in the Trenches of the Nation’s Math Wars Education Column Archive
03/29/00 Lessons—Rx for Nation’s Troubled Teacher Colleges Is Medicine, Not Poison Education Column Archive
03/15/00 Lessons—The Suburbs Vote for Public Education Education Column Archive
03/01/00 Lessons—What Toddlers Could Use - Some Graying Boomers Education Column Archive
02/16/00 Lessons—A Conservative Picks a Path Less Taken Education Column Archive
02/02/00 Lessons—And So Just What Good Were the Good Old Days? Education Column Archive
01/19/00 Lessons—Inner-City Nomad - Route to Low Grades Education Column Archive
01/05/00 Lessons—Closing the Gap in State School Spending Education Column Archive
12/29/99 Lessons—For Urban Schools Chiefs, Goals Hopelessly at Odds Education Column Archive
12/22/99 Lessons—‘Goals 2000’ Scorecard: Failure Pitches a Shutout Education Column Archive
12/08/99 Lessons—In Judging Schools, One Standard Doesn’t Fit All Education Column Archive
11/24/99 Lessons—Emphasis on Scores Comes at a Price Education Column Archive
11/10/99 Lessons—Does Poverty at Home Mean Low Achievement? Education Column Archive
10/27/99 Lessons—Shortage of Skills? A High-Tech Myth Education Column Archive