Dynamics of Opportunity in America

EditorsIrwin Kirsch is Tyler Chair in Large-Scale Assessment and Director of theCenter for Global Assessment at Educational Testing Service (ETS). He alsoserves as Project Director of ETS’s Opportunity in America initiative.Henry Braun is Boisi Professor of Education and Public Policy in theLynch School of Education and Director of the Center for the Study of Testing,Evaluation, and Education Policy at Boston College. He also serves as ProjectCo-Director of ETS’s Opportunity in America initiative.ContributorsBruce Baker is Professor at the Graduate School of Education at RutgersUniversity and maintains blogs on school finance and educational policy.Jared Bernstein is a Senior Fellow at the Center on Budget and PolicyPriorities. He previously served as Chief Economist and Economic Adviser toVice President Joe Biden.Danielle Farrie is Research Director of the Education Law Center inNewark, New Jersey.Chrystia Freeland is the Canadian Minister of International Trade andMember of Parliament for University-Rosedale, Toronto, author of Plutocrats:The Rise of the New Global Super-rich and the Fall of Everyone Else, andjournalist.Harry J. Holzer is Professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy atGeorgetown University and is an Institute Fellow at the American Institutes forResearch. He previously served as Chief Economist at the U.S. Department ofLabor.Carl Kaestle is University Professor of Education, History, and PublicPolicy emeritus at Brown University.Ishwar Khatiwada is a Labor Economist at the Center for Labor Marketsand Policy at Drexel University.Robert I. Lerman is an Institute Fellow at the Urban Institute, EmeritusProfessor of Economics at American University, and a Research Fellow at IZA inBonn, Germany. He is also the Founder of the American Institute for InnovativeApprenticeship.Douglas S. Massey is the Henry G. Bryant Professor of Sociology andPublic Affairs at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public andInternational Affairs.Leslie McCall is a Professor in the Department of Sociology and FacultyFellow at the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University.Jennifer A. O’Day is an Institute Fellow of the American Institutes forResearch and is the Founder and Chair of the California Collaborative onDistrict Reform.Richard V. Reeves is a Senior Fellow in Economic Studies, Co-Director ofthe Center on Children and Families, and Editor-in-Chief of the Social MobilityMemos blog at the Brookings Institution.David G. Sciarra is Executive Director of the Education Law Center inNewark, New Jersey.Timothy M. (Tim) Smeeding is the Arts and Sciences DistinguishedProfessor of Public Affairs and Economics at the University ofWisconsin-Madison. He was previously Director of the Institute for Research onPoverty at Wisconsin-Madison.Marshall S. Smith is a Senior Scholar at the Carnegie Foundation for theAdvancement of Teaching, a former Dean and Professor at Stanford, and a formerUnder Secretary and Acting Deputy Secretary at the U.S. Department of Educationin the Clinton administration. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Artsand Sciences and the National Academy of Education.Andrew M. Sum is Professor Emeritus of Economics at NortheasternUniversity in Boston. He was previously the Director of the Center for LaborMarket Studies.Jonathan Tannen is a Doctoral Candidate in the Urban and Populationclusters of the Woodrow Wilson School and the Office of Population Research atPrinceton University.

• Dedication.- Preface.- Editors' Note.- Table of Contents.- About the Editors and Contributors.- List of Figures.- List of Tables.- 1. Introduction: Opportunity in America – Setting the Stage.- PART I: Understanding Where We Are Today.- PART II: The Labor Market.- PART III: Education and Opportunity.-PART IV: Politics and the Road Ahead.- PART V: Seeking Inclusive Prosperity.- Appendix: Members of the Opportunity in America Advisory Panel.- Index.