Richard Rothstein
Research Associate
Areas of expertise
Education
Biography
Richard Rothstein is a research associate of the Economic Policy Institute and senior fellow of the Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Law and Social Policy at the University of California (Berkeley) School of Law. 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.
Publications by Richard Rothstein
Blog
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Jan. 15, 2013 | International tests show achievement gaps in all countries, with big gains for U.S. disadvantaged students
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Oct. 31, 2012 | Government has flouted its obligation to affirmatively further fair housing
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Oct. 11, 2012 | Joel Klein’s false stories
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Sept. 14, 2012 | Teacher accountability and the Chicago teachers strike
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Aug. 22, 2012 | Segregation, the black-white achievement gap, and the Romneys
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May 15, 2012 | Addressing unfair expectations for the next wave of educators
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March 7, 2012 | Montana judge’s actions provide an opportunity to confront the origins of America’s racial divide
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Feb. 27, 2012 | Arne Duncan’s policies have yet to match his rhetoric
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Feb. 3, 2012 | The ‘end of the segregated century?’
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Jan. 25, 2012 | Discriminatory mortgage lending intensifies racial segregation
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Jan. 23, 2012 | ‘Reformers’ playbook on failing schools fails a fact check
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Oct. 14, 2011 | California’s governor refuses to add more speedometers to a broken education vehicle
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Oct. 11, 2011 | Congress aims for “continuous improvement” from students
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Sept. 26, 2011 | A bet over No Child Left Behind
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Sept. 12, 2011 | A dire prediction: The achievement gap will grow
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Sept. 6, 2011 | Schools confront poverty, why don’t education policies?
Report
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Jan. 28, 2013 | What do international tests really show about U.S. student performance?
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Aug. 22, 2012 | A different kind of choice: Educational inequality and the continuing significance of racial segregation
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Jan. 23, 2012 | A comment on Bank of America/Countrywide’s discriminatory mortgage lending and its implications for racial segregation
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March 8, 2011 | Fact-challenged policy
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Oct. 28, 2010 | Where Has All The Money Been Going?
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Oct. 14, 2010 | How to fix our schools
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Aug. 27, 2010 | Problems with the use of student test scores to evaluate teachers
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Aug. 27, 2010 | Racial segregation and black student achievement
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April 20, 2010 | Let’s do the numbers: Department of Education’s “Race to the Top” Program Offers Only a Muddled Path to the Finish Line
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March 27, 2010 | A blueprint that needs more work
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Oct. 13, 2009 | The Prospects for No Child Left Behind
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Dec. 19, 2008 | Education Accountability Policy in the New Administration
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Jan. 1, 1993 | Setting the Standard: International Labor Rights and U.S. Trade Policy
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June 1, 1991 | Fast Track, Fast Shuffle: The Economic Consequences of the Bush Administration’s Proposed Trade Agreement with Mexico
Book
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May 14, 2009 | Teachers, Performance Pay, and Accountability: What Education Should Learn From Other Sectors
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Nov. 10, 2008 | Narrowing the Achievement Gap for Low-Income Children: A 19-Year Life Cycle Approach
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Oct. 20, 2008 | Grading Education: Getting Accountability Right
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Feb. 28, 2008 | Holding Accountability to Account: How Scholarship and Experience in Other Fields Inform Exploration of Performance Incentives in Education
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Feb. 14, 2008 | A Report Card on Comprehensive Equity: Racial Gaps in the Nation’s Youth Outcomes
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Nov. 14, 2006 | ‘Proficiency for All’—An Oxymoron
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April 4, 2005 | The Charter School Dust-Up: Examining the evidence on enrollment and achievement
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May 12, 2004 | Class and Schools: Using Social, Economic, and Educational Reform to Close the Black–White Achievement Gap
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Sept. 1, 1999 | Can Public Schools Learn From Private Schools? (EPI book)
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Sept. 1, 1998 | The Way We Were? The Myths and Realities of America’s Student Achievement
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Nov. 1, 1997 | Where’s the Money Going? Changes in the Level and Composition of Education Spending, 1991-96
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Nov. 1, 1995 | Where’s the Money Gone? Changes in the Level and Composition of Education Spending
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Jan. 1, 1993 | School Choice: Examining the Evidence
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Jan. 1, 1989 | Keeping Jobs in Fashion: Alternatives to the Euthanasia of the U.S. Apparel Industry
Commentary
Dec. 17, 2012 | Race and public housing: Revisiting the federal role
April 3, 2012 | Subprime loan debacle intensified segregation
March 7, 2012 | Furor over Montana judge presents opportunity to confront the origins of our racial divide
Feb. 26, 2012 | He’s looked at life from both sides now – or has he? Arne Duncan claims the high ground, but school clinics still face needless obstacles
Feb. 3, 2012 | Racial segregation continues, and even intensifies: Manhattan Institute report heralding the “end” of segregation uses a measure that masks important demographic and economic trends
Oct. 11, 2011 | Congress can make students improve, and improve, and improve, and improve, and…
Aug. 29, 2011 | Grading the Education Reformers
May 4, 2011 | Has spending on public schools risen too high?
March 1, 2011 | A look at the health-related causes of low student achievement
Oct. 18, 2010 | An overemphasis on teachers
Oct. 6, 2010 | Can $100 Million Change Newark’s Schools?
March 24, 2010 | Is education on the wrong track?
March 16, 2010 | Moment of Clarity
Feb. 1, 2010 | Unions not an important impediment to removing ineffective teachers
Jan. 4, 2010 | How the jobs crisis creates an education crisis
Aug. 13, 2009 | Replacing No Child Left Behind
July 21, 2009 | College graduates: supply and demand
Jan. 23, 2009 | Getting Accountability Right
June 2, 2008 | The Corruption of School Accountability
April 17, 2008 | Whose Problem Is Poverty?
April 7, 2008 | ‘A Nation at Risk’ Twenty-Five Years Later
Jan. 1, 2008 | Leaving ‘No Child Left Behind’ Behind
Oct. 1, 2007 | Schools as Scapegoats
March 5, 2007 | A Test of Time: Unchanged Priorities for Student Outcomes
Dec. 4, 2006 | The Goals of Education
Sept. 5, 2006 | Should we repair ‘No Child Left Behind’ or Trade It In?
Aug. 30, 2006 | Social Class, Schooling and Achievement…Again
June 1, 2006 | Reforms that could help narrow the achievement gap
Jan. 18, 2006 | Equity and Excellence in American Higher Education
Dec. 23, 2005 | Should the federal government be involved in school accountability?
May 19, 2004 | Social class leaves its imprint
March 3, 2004 | We Are Not Ready to Assess History Performance