Halley Potter is a fellow at The Century Foundation, where she researches public policy solutions for addressing educational inequality. Her work focuses on school integration, charter schools, and college admissions. She is coauthor, with Richard D. Kahlenberg, of Diverse Charter Schools: Can Racial and Socioeconomic Integration Promote Better Outcomes for Students? (The Century Foundation, 2012) and A Smarter Charter: Finding What Works for Charter Schools and Public Education (Teachers College Press, 2014). Prior to joining The Century Foundation, Halley taught at Two Rivers Public Charter School in northeast Washington, D.C. She graduated summa cum laude from Yale University with a bachelor’s degree in religious studies.
Latest Work by Halley Potter
- New Focus on Diversity in Head Start
- June 19, 2015
- NYC City Council Bill Is Good News for School Integration
- May 27, 2015
- 50 Years On, Head Start’s Best Hope for the Future May Lie in an Idea from Its Past
- May 15, 2015
- Is There Political Support for Integrated Charter Schools?
- April 8, 2015
- Student Aid Bill of Rights Is a Win for Economic Mobility
- March 12, 2015
- Beyond Stuyvesant: How Other NYC High Schools Are Promoting Equity
- February 16, 2015
- Inside a Teacher-Led Charter School
- September 30, 2014
- Integrated Schools, Integrated Classrooms
- September 22, 2014
- Could Teach for America Lead the Way on Student Diversity?
- September 2, 2014
- Big Lessons on Charter Schools from the Smallest State
- August 26, 2014
- Charter Schools Take a Stand on Integration
- July 1, 2014
- What Can We Learn from States That Ban Affirmative Action?
- June 26, 2014
- The Future of Affirmative Action
- June 20, 2014
- Charter Schools and Special Education
- June 12, 2014
- Segregation in the Suburbs
- May 16, 2014
- The Chicken or Egg Debate: Housing v. School Integration
- April 29, 2014
- Who Benefits from Universal Pre-K?
- March 31, 2014
- Encouraging Integrated Schools
- March 28, 2014
- What Can We Do About Segregation in DC Schools?
- March 18, 2014
- The Liberal Debate on Affirmative Action
- December 9, 2013
- Universal Pre-K: The First Challenge for NYC’s Next Mayor?
- November 1, 2013
- George Washington University Isn’t Need-Blind
- October 22, 2013
- Three Education Ideas for NYC’s New Mayor
- October 9, 2013
- Charter Schools Diane Ravitch Can Support
- September 25, 2013
- Will Parents Choose Diverse Schools?
- August 27, 2013
- Achieving the American Dream?
- July 23, 2013
- Three Reasons to Support Integrated Charter Schools
- June 10, 2013
- Changing the College Admissions Game
- May 9, 2013
- Fighting the Effects of Poverty Through Socioeconomic Integration
- May 6, 2013
- Affirmative Action Alternatives
- March 13, 2013
- Does School Choice Help or Hurt School Integration?
- January 28, 2013
- Recent research supports district’s diversity plan
- January 14, 2013
- More Support for Socioeconomic School Integration: Iowa City Is Close to Passing Plan
- January 9, 2013
- A Better Affirmative Action: State Universities that Created Alternatives to Racial Preferences
- October 3, 2012
- Diverse Charter Schools: Can Racial and Socioeconomic Integration Promote Better Outcomes?
- May 23, 2012
- Richard D. Kahlenberg’s Commentary on Fisher v. Texas
- February 23, 2012
FEATURING Halley Potter
- When Integrating A School, Does It Matter If You Use Class Instead Of Race?
- February 29, 2016
- How Can Schools Adapt to Gentrification?
- February 23, 2016
- The Secret to School Integration
- February 23, 2016
- The Promise of Integrated Schools
- February 16, 2016
- Schools Are Finally Starting To Embrace This Method Of Closing The Achievement Gap
- February 10, 2016
- In an age of resegregation, these schools are trying to balance poor and wealthy kids
- February 9, 2016
- Twice as Many Schools Pushing Integration, Versus 10 Years Ago — Based on Class Rather than Race
- February 9, 2016
- City enrolls 68K in pre-K, with big growth in poorest neighborhoods
- December 18, 2015
- Supreme Court to hear affirmative action case
- December 6, 2015
- Segregated by choice, state’s charter schools face a test
- November 30, 2015
- 5 Ways School Segregation Can Be Tackled by New York City
- November 23, 2015
- Separate and unequal: Racial segregation widespread in R.I. public schools
- November 9, 2015
- Does affirmative action still have a place in college admissions decisions?
- November 3, 2015
- The Perpetual Debate Over Targeted vs. Universal Pre-K
- November 2, 2015
- Gifted: Are We Measuring Social Advantage or Innate Aptitude?
- October 22, 2015
- Report Profiles Charter Schools’ Role in Promoting Diversity
- September 30, 2015
- How One School Bucks City’s Racially Segregated Gifted and Talented System
- September 30, 2015
- Resisting School Integration: A Brooklyn Case Study in Scared Parents and Bad Data
- September 28, 2015
- The Reality of Universal Pre-K
- September 14, 2015
- Teacher Unions and Civil Rights Groups Battle over Future of No Child Left Behind
- July 27, 2015
- Tennessee campuses watching Supreme Court college race case
- July 10, 2015
- When Charters Go Union
- June 19, 2015
- The Sesame Street Effect
- June 19, 2015
- De Blasio signs law requiring new school diversity reports
- June 18, 2015
- Separate and Economically Unequal
- June 18, 2015
- Aggressive new Nevada law puts private schools in reach of all
- June 16, 2015
- Let Rich and Poor Learn Together
- June 12, 2015
- A guide to the city’s 2015 pre-K expansion, challenges
- June 9, 2015
- Can Charter Schools Be Rescued From the Charter Industry?
- June 5, 2015
- ‘Lessons From NYC’s Universal Pre-K Expansion: How a Focus on Diversity Could Make It Even Better’
- June 5, 2015
- The Challenge of Diversity in Pre-K Classrooms
- June 5, 2015
- UPK Report Asks: Where’s the Diversity?
- May 13, 2015
- Study: City Pre-K Program Can Be Model, With Tweaks
- May 13, 2015
- High Quality Schools for All
- April 21, 2015
- White Parents in North Carolina are Using Charter Schools to Secede From the Education System
- April 15, 2015
- Q & A : A Smarter Charter?
- April 8, 2015
- At Success Academy Charter Schools, Polarizing Methods and Superior Results
- April 6, 2015
- What Charter Schools Can Teach Us About Teacher Voice
- March 9, 2015
- What Makes a Charter Smarter?
- February 26, 2015
- As He Promotes It, Some Question Obama’s Free Community College Idea
- February 23, 2015
- Why Teachers Must Be at the Table
- February 19, 2015
- A Promising Type of Charter
- February 18, 2015
- How Immigration Distorts Affirmative Action Policy: Academic
- February 14, 2015
- How Can Charter Schools Best Help Poor Kids? Start Promoting Integration.
- February 2, 2015
- Smarter Charters
- January 30, 2015
- Koch Brothers/Charter School Nightmare: “White Kids Get to Go to a School With a Montessori Approach
- January 21, 2015
- Do Charter Schools Need Teachers Unions?
- January 12, 2015
- Restoring Shanker’s Vision for Charter Schools
- December 16, 2014
- Don’t Misunderstand How Charter Schools Succeed
- December 11, 2014
- Valuing All Voice
- November 20, 2014
- Do Schools Really Need Principals?
- November 11, 2014
- A Smarter Charter: A Response to Nelson Smith
- October 31, 2014
- Ensuring Equity in Charter Schools
- October 29, 2014
- What Happens When Teachers Are at the Helm of a School?
- October 15, 2014
- Teaching in America: Education reform should start with empowering teachers
- September 4, 2014
- Wonkbook: The troubling state of labor
- September 3, 2014
- The Original Charter School Vision
- September 2, 2014
- Big charter change seen in 2 D.C. schools
- August 28, 2014
- “Smarter” Charters Are Diverse, Teacher-Led
- August 27, 2014
- The City’s Gifted Education System Needs to Shift, One School at a Time
- July 18, 2014
- Iowa City: Economic Integration?
- July 1, 2014
- School Diversity Stirs Open Enrollment Debate
- July 1, 2014
- “For Equity and Integration, School Choice Is the Better Choice”
- June 20, 2014
- Researchers Explore Ways to Improve Racial Diversity at Colleges
- June 20, 2014
- ‘All the Children are Above Average’: Should Schools Separate Gifted Students?
- June 20, 2014
- Your Call: How Will Ending Teacher Tenure Affect Education in California?
- June 19, 2014
- Eliminate Gifted Tracks
- June 4, 2014
- 60 Years After Brown: Do the dreams of some remain deferred?
- May 19, 2014
- Focusing in on racial segregation in schools
- May 19, 2014
- Affirmative Action’s Next Phase May Target Class, Not Race
- April 29, 2014
- Creating diversity without considering race?
- April 28, 2014
- Focus on Class Instead
- April 28, 2014
- The future of affirmative action
- April 28, 2014
- Life After Affirmative Action
- April 28, 2014
- How Did the Affirmative Action Ban Get to the Supreme Court?
- April 24, 2014
- Halley Potter on The Joel Riley Show
- April 24, 2014
- Reading into SCOTUS and affirmative action
- April 23, 2014
- Pre-K Is Good, But Universal Pre-K Is Better
- March 28, 2014
- Weighted Admissions Lotteries: Will They Reshape Charter Demographics?
- March 20, 2014
- Some Charters Can Use Weighted Lotteries, New Federal Guidance Says
- January 30, 2014
- Education Department changes charter school lottery rules
- January 29, 2014
- ASD leader’s comments bring attention to relationship between charters and school segregation
- January 28, 2014
- Need-Blind Admissions Challenged
- October 28, 2013
- Colleges give largest grants to wealthiest students
- August 21, 2013
- The New Affirmative Action
- June 25, 2013
- Boosting Achievement by Pursuing Diversity
- May 2, 2013
- How the Supreme Court Could Affect First-Generation Students
- March 26, 2013
