Blink. Think. Blank. Bunk.
Solid snap judgments are deeply grounded
Solid snap judgments are deeply grounded
Beyond the Melting Pot
Two well-regarded liberals take on multiculturalism
Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers
By Kwame Anthony Appiah
Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny
By Amartya Sen
Battling the Progressives
The Knowledge Deficit: Closing the Shocking Education Gap for American Children By E. D. Hirsch, Jr.
The Knowledge Deficit: Closing the Shocking Education Gap for American Children
By E. D. Hirsch, Jr.
Civics Lesson
Diversity and Distrust: Civic Education in a Multicultural Democracy by Stephen Macedo Asking the schools to mold good citizens—again
Diversity and Distrust: Civic Education in a Multicultural Democracy by Stephen Macedo Asking the schools to mold good citizens—again
“Inside Charter Schools” REVIEWED
Inside Charter Schools: The Paradox of Radical Decentralization Edited by Bruce Fuller
Inside Charter Schools: The Paradox of Radical Decentralization Edited by Bruce Fuller Harvard University Press, 2000, $31.50; 288 pages. Reviewed by Patrick J. Wolf The soaring popularity of charter schools among parents, education reformers, and politicians still hasn’t convinced Bruce Fuller of their worth. Fuller, a professor of education and public policy at the University [...]
Women’s Work
Mothers sustain the home-schooling movement
Kingdom of Children
Culture and Controversy in the Homeschooling Movement
by Mitchell L. Stevens
Choice Words
Are private schools truly more effective?
Catholic Schools: Private and Social Effects Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000, $100; 160 pages By William Sander The Education Gap: Vouchers and Urban Schools Brookings Institution, 2002, $28.95; 275 pages By William G. Howell and Paul Peterson, with Patrick J. Wolf and David E. Campbell As reviewed by R. Kenneth Godwin The advantage of reading The Education Gap and Catholic Schools together is in [...]
Education Matters: Selected Essays
Education Matters: Selected Essays by Alan B. Krueger
Education Matters: Selected Essays by Alan B. Krueger
Marginal Impact
Upstart Startup: Creating and Sustaining a Public Charter School By James Nehring; Standards of Mind and Heart: Creating the Good High School By Peggy Silva and Robert A. Mackin; Central Park East and Its Graduates: “Learning by Heart” By David Bensman; One Kid at a Time: Big Lessons from a Small School By Eliot Levine
Upstart Startup: Creating and Sustaining a Public Charter School By James Nehring; Standards of Mind and Heart: Creating the Good High School By Peggy Silva and Robert A. Mackin; Central Park East and Its Graduates: “Learning by Heart” By David Bensman; One Kid at a Time: Big Lessons from a Small School By Eliot Levine
Progressively Worse
Getting It Wrong from the Beginning: Our Progressivist Inheritance from Herbert Spencer, John Dewey, and Jean Piaget by Kieran Egan
Getting It Wrong from the Beginning: Our Progressivist Inheritance from Herbert Spencer, John Dewey, and Jean Piaget
by Kieran Egan
Eye of the Beholder
All Else Equal: Are Public and Private Schools Different? By Luis Benveniste, Martin Carnoy, and Richard Rothstein
All Else Equal: Are Public and Private Schools Different? By Luis Benveniste, Martin Carnoy, and Richard Rothstein
Still Dreaming
The American Dream and the Public Schools By Jennifer Hochschild and Nathan Scovronick
The American Dream and the Public Schools By Jennifer Hochschild and Nathan Scovronick
Just the Facts
School Figures: The Data Behind the Debate by Hanna Skandera and Richard Sousa Hoover Institution, 2003, $15; 342 pp.
School Figures: The Data Behind the Debate
by Hanna Skandera and Richard Sousa
Hoover Institution, 2003, $15; 342 pp.
Uncivil War
California Dreaming: Reforming Mathematics Education by Suzanne M. Wilson Yale University Press, 2003, $29.95; 320 pages. Reviewed by Ralph A. Raimi California’s “math wars,” the struggle over what is sometimes called the “new New Math,” illustrate all the ills and disagreements that have plagued American education for the past century. They have been but a [...]
Quality Curricula
Public Education as a Business: Real Costs and Accountability by Myron Lieberman & Charlene K. Haar
Public Education as a Business: Real Costs and Accountability by Myron Lieberman & Charlene K. Haar
Equally Mediocre
Final Test: The Battle for Adequacy in America’s Schools by Peter Schrag
Final Test: The Battle for Adequacy in America’s Schools by Peter Schrag
Selective Memory
Family Circle: The Boudins and the Aristocracy of the Left By Susan Braudy
Family Circle: The Boudins and the Aristocracy of the Left By Susan Braudy Knopf, 2003, $27.95; 460 pages. Reviewed by Diane Ravitch While reviewing several American history textbooks, I was taken aback by the descriptions of the late 1960s. It is of course somewhat startling to see the events of one’s own lifetime described as [...]
Book Alert
The New Division of Labor: How Computers Are Creating the Next Job Market, by Frank Levy and Richard J. Murnane; Class and Schools: Using Social, Economic, and Educational Reform to Close the Black-White Achievement Gap, by Richard Rothstein; Leaving No Child Behind? Options for Kids in Failing Schools, by Frederick M. Hess and Chester E. Finn Jr., eds.; Standards Deviation: How Schools Misunderstand Education Policy, by James P. Spillane
The New Division of Labor: How Computers Are Creating the Next Job Market, by Frank Levy and Richard J. Murnane; Class and Schools: Using Social, Economic, and Educational Reform to Close the Black-White Achievement Gap, by Richard Rothstein; Leaving No Child Behind? Options for Kids in Failing Schools, by Frederick M. Hess and Chester E. Finn Jr., eds.; Standards Deviation: How Schools Misunderstand Education Policy, by James P. Spillane
