Spring 2004 / Vol. 4, No. 2
A Kibbutz Education
The collective farm was a powerful educational tool
Book Alert
Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation of Language and Music and Why We Should, Like, Care by John H. McWhorter (Gotham Books) “We must have the attitude that every child in America, regardless of where they’re raised or how they’re born, can learn,” President George W. Bush once observed. The president talks funny. So do [...]
Just the Facts
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 [...]
Rod Paige on teachers who cheat; the benefits of inclusion
It is shameful that a small minority of teachers feel the need to help their students cheat on tests. The issue says something larger about our society that is very hard to fathom and is simply unacceptable.
Tough Love
The value of high grading standards
Voucher Research Controversy
New looks at the New York City evaluation
The Open Classroom
Like automotive models, women’s hemlines, and children’s toys, pedagogical fads come and go, causing an immediate stir but rarely influencing teaching practice in any significant way. The notion that every innovation dreamed up by reformers inside and outside public schools makes its way into the nation’s classrooms is popular among those hunting for reasons to [...]
The Gentleman’s A
New evidence on the effects of grade inflation
The Race Connection
Are teachers more effective with students who share their ethnicity?
A Building Need
Charter schools in search of good homes
The Sun Sets on the West
Social studies, the politically correct way
A Board’s Eye View
Lessons from life in public office
Exploring the Costs of Accountability
No Child Left Behind is no unfunded mandate
Faulty Engineering
The diversity of values within American society renders public schools ill-equipped to produce the engaged citizens our democracy requires
Crafting Good Citizens
Public schools can —and should— teach students to become active participants in democratic life
Teaching Citizenship
Can public schools teach good citizenship?
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