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your experience on this site better. Volume XI, Number 1, Spring
2005 Issue Topic: Complementary Learning Questions & Answers
Richard Rothstein is a research associate at the Economic Policy
Institute and a visiting lecturer at Teachers College, Columbia
University. From 1999 to 2002 he was the national education
columnist for The New York Times and is now a senior
correspondent for The American Prospect. Rothstein authored the
2004 book Class and Schools: Using Social, Economic, and
Educational Reform to Close the Black–White Achievement Gap
(published by the Economic Policy Institute), which argues that
narrowing the achievement gap requires substantial changes in
social policy in addition to extensive school reform.¹ Your book
Class and Schools argues that closing the achievement gap cannot
be accomplished by school ref