Richard Rothstein
Research Associate
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