Divided We Fail: Coming Together Through Public School Choice : The Report of the Century Foundation Task Force on the Common School

Most of the US education reform community has sought ways to make "separate but equal" schooling work better, but is this really the best course for students? This report by the Century Foundation's Task Force on the Common School, chaired by former Connecticut governor and senator Lowell P. Weicker Jr, recommends improving schools by promoting economic and racial integration through public school choice. "One Nation, One School" includes six background papers: "Trends in School Segregation" by David Rusk, an independent consultant; "The Racial Dividend of Economic School Integration" by Duncan Chaplin of the Urban Institute; "Busing to Achieve Student Learning: One Midwestern School District's Drive to Create Socioeconomic Balance" by Richard Mial of "La Crosse Tribune"; "Wake County Schools: A Question of Balance" by Todd Silberman of the "Raleigh News and Observer"; "St. Louis: Desegregation and School Choice in the Land of Dred" by Scott William Freivogel of the "St. Louis Post-Dispatch" and "Controlled Choice in Cambridge" by Edward Fiske, formerly of the "New York Times".