Richard Rothstein

Richard Rothstein is a research associate of the Economic Policy Institute, and an adjunct lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. From 1999 to 2002 he was the national education columnist of The New York Times. He is the author of Class and Schools: using Social, Economic and Educational Reform to Close the Black-White Achievement Gap (Teachers College Press 20040. He is also the author of The Way We Were? Myths and Realities of America's Student Achievement (1988). 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). Rothstein is a board member of the American Education Finance Association, and lectures widely about education policy issues. he can be contacted at riroth@epi.org.

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