A Notion at Risk: Preserving Public Education as an Engine for Social Mobility

Richard D. Kahlenberg

Century Foundation Press, 2000 - Education - 356 pages

The 2000 presidential campaign is ushering in a renewed focus on public education. The question is, what would be best for our children?This volume of essays seeks to restore the notion that public education should be an engine for social mobility, a concern that animated Brown v. Board of Education and the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act. It identifies the leading sources of inequality —both in the home and in school —and proposes concrete public policy remedies. The authors also examine the strengths and weaknesses of summer schooling, federal aid to education, standards, teacher enhancement, charter schools, and zero tolerance policies. The contributors include Doris Entwisle, Karl Alexander, and Linda Olson, Johns Hopkins University; Richard Rothstein, Economic Policy Institute and Occidental College; Adam Gamaron, University of Wisconsin; Linda Darling-Hammond, Stanford University; Amy Stuart Wells, Jennifer Jellison Holme, Alejandra Lopez, and Camille Wilson Cooper, University of California at Los Angeles; Paul Barton, Educational Testing Service; and Ruy Teixeira, The Century Foundation.

Contents

• Foreword by RICHARD C LEONE: 1
• Equalizing Education Resources on Behalf: 31
• A Strategy for Equalizing: 93

About the author

Richard D. Kahlenberg is a senior fellow at The Century Foundation, where he writes about education, equal opportunity, and civil rights. He is the author of four books, including "Tough Liberal: Albert Shanker and the Battles Over Schools, Unions, Race, and Democracy" (Columbia University Press, 2007) and "All Together Now: Creating Middle Class Schools through Public School Choice" (a Century Foundation Book published by Brookings, 2001). He is also the editor of four more, including "America's Untapped Resource: Low-Income Students in Higher Education" (Century Foundation Press, 2004) and "Public School Choice vs. Private School Vouchers" (Century Foundation Press, 2003).

Bibliographic information

• Title: A Notion at Risk: Preserving Public Education as an Engine for Social Mobility; A Century Foundation book
• Author: Richard D. Kahlenberg
• Editor: Richard D. Kahlenberg
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Century Foundation Press, 2000
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Nov 3, 2008
• ISBN: 0870784552, 9780870784552
• Length: 356 pages
• Subjects: Education / Administration / General; Education / Educational Policy & Reform / Federal Legislation; Education / Educational Policy & Reform / General; Education / Evaluation & Assessment; Education / General; Education / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects; Education / Schools / Types / Public; Political Science / American Government / General; Political Science / General; Political Science / Public Policy / Social Policy