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Direct linkHanushek, Eric A. – Education Next, 2016
The Coleman report, "Equality of Educational Opportunity," is the fountainhead for those committed to evidence-based education policy. Remarkably, this 737-page tome, prepared 50 years ago by seven authors under the leadership of James S. Coleman, still gets a steady 600 Google Scholar citations per year. But since its publication, views…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Family Influence, Equal Education, Educational Opportunities
Ritter, Gary; Jensen, Nathan; Kisida, Brian; McGee, Joshua – Education Next, 2010
In January 2010, the UCLA-based Civil Rights Project (CRP) released "Choice without Equity: Charter School Segregation and the Need for Civil Rights Standards." The study intended to report on, among other things, levels of racial segregation in charter schools across the United States. The authors use 2007-08 data from the U.S. Department of…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Racial Segregation, School Segregation, Racial Composition
Peterson, Paul E. – Education Next, 2011
Recently, two separate studies--one by Alan Ginsburg, a former director of Policy and Program Studies in the U.S. Department of Education, the other by a committee constituted by the National Research Council (NRC)--have sought to discredit the work of Michelle Rhee, former chancellor of schools for the District of Columbia. According to Ginsburg,…
Descriptors: Evidence, Academic Achievement, Politics of Education, Superintendents
Eaton, Susan; Rivkin, Steven – Education Next, 2010
The Supreme Court declared in 1954 that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal." Into the 1970s, urban education reform focused predominantly on making sure that African American students had the opportunity to attend school with their white peers. Now, however, most reformers take as a given that the typical low-income minority…
Descriptors: School Restructuring, Racial Integration, Educational Change, Desegregation Effects
Williams, Joe; Noguera, Pedro – Education Next, 2010
Since the run-up to the 2008 election, the Democratic Party has been home to two prominent and very different reform wings. One, spearheaded by the group Democrats for Education Reform and notable school-district chiefs like New York's Joel Klein and Washington, D.C.'s Michelle Rhee, is the Education Equality Project (EEP). The other, A Broader,…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, School Choice, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Change
Epstein, Richard A.; Pianko, Daniel; Schnur, Jon; Wyner, Joshua – Education Next, 2011
For a decade, at least since the passage of No Child Left Behind, the nation's foremost education goal has been to erase achievement "gaps" in which African American, Latino, and low-income students dramatically lag behind their peers. This emphasis has enjoyed broad support through the Bush and Obama administrations, and from major…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, Federal Legislation, Academic Standards, Educational Quality
