Richard Rothstein is a Research Associate of the Economic Policy Institute, an Adjunct lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, a board member of the American Education Research Association and lectures widely about education policy issues. Formerly the National Education Columnist of The New York Times, he was also a Visiting Professor at the Teachers College - Columbia University. He is the author of Class and Schools: Using Social, Economic and Educational Reform to Close the Black-White Achievement Gap (Teachers College Press 2004). He is also the author of The Way We Were? Myths and Realities of America's Student Achievement (1998). 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). Mr. Rothstein earned his BA from Harvard College.