Fall 2006 / Vol. 6, No. 4
The Why Chromosome
How a teacher’s gender affects boys and girls
Hope after Katrina
Will New Orleans become the new city of choice?
Not Your Father’s PE
Obesity, exercise, and the role of schools
The English Teacher
When the lack of a cohesive curriculum comes back to bite
The Cure
Will NCLB’s restructuring wonder drug prove meaningless?
Book Alert
Collective Bargaining in Education: Negotiating Change in Today’s Schools. Edited by Jane Hannaway and Andrew J. Rotherham (Harvard Education Press). It is not clear what justifies use of “change” in the title of this book. Since the days of the Luddites, it has been in the nature of unions to oppose anything that jeopardizes worker [...]
Beyond the Melting Pot
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.
Thomas Payzant; union politics; Jack Jennings; high school; keeping Christians out
The Bostonian Tom Payzant had an extraordinary ten-year run as superintendent of schools in Boston, as described in Alexander Russo’s fine story (“The Bostonian,” features, Summer 2006). Although it’s hard to remember now, Boston public schools were in free fall a decade ago, with a dysfunctional school committee, a series of short-term superintendents, and a [...]
Virtual Legality
Unions and Home Schoolers Attack Internet Education
Learning from Catastrophe Theory
What New Orleans Tells Us about Our Education Future
Is Your Child’s School Effective?
Don’t rely on NCLB to tell you
Political Realities
To get national standards, leaders will need to be bold
Hoop Hassles
Incentives, not national control
A New New Federalism
The case for national standards and tests
National Standards
Should the federal government tell schools what to teach?
Miracle Math
A successful program from Singapore tests the limits of school reform in the suburbs
Don’t Sweat It
How some schools do–and don’t do–PE
Home Is Where the Heart Is
Can Cory Booker save Newark's schools?
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