Banquet Address 2009 – Richard Rothstein

Richard Rothstein
Author, Grading Education
Charles W. Eliot Award Recipient 2009 

Richard Rothstein is a research associate of the Economic Policy Institute (http://www.epi.org/), co-chair of the national advisory council of the Broader, Bolder, Approach to Education campaign (http://www.boldapproach.org), and a former national education columnist of The New York Times. He is the author of Grading Education: Getting Accountability Right (Teachers College Press and EPI, 2008: http://www.epi.org/publications/entry/books_grading_education/); Class and Schools: Using Social, Economic and Educational Reform to Close the Black-White Achievement Gap (Teachers College Press 2004: http://www.epi.org/publications/entry/books_class_and_schools/); and The Way We Were? Myths and Realities of America's Student Achievement (1998: http://www.epi.org/publications/entry/books_way_we_were/). Recent co-authored books include The Charter School Dust-Up: Examining the Evidence on Enrollment and Achievement (Economic Policy Institute 2005: http://www.epi.org/publications/entry/book_charter_school/); and All Else Equal. Are Public and Private Schools Different? (Economic Policy Institute 1999: http://www.epi.org/publications/entry/books_privatepublic/). He can be contacted at riroth@epi.org.