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Spring 2010 / Vol. 10, No. 2

Toothless Reform?

If the feds get tough, Race to the Top might work

By Andy Smarick 
Features, Governance and Leadership, On Top of the News, School Spending, State and Federal  

Charter High Schools

Promising results from charters that educate teens

By Paul E. Peterson 
Briefs, Charter Schools and Vouchers, From the Editor  

Spring 2010 Correspondence

Readers Respond

By Education Next   
Correspondence  

Total Student Load

Review of William Ouchi’s The Secret of TSL

By Eric A. Hanushek 
Governance and Leadership, Reviews, Teachers and Teaching  

What Happened When Kindergarten Went Universal?

Benefits were small and only reached white children

By Elizabeth U. Cascio   
Homepage, Research, State and Federal  

Dedicated, Decorated, and Disappointing

Review of Rafe Esquith’s Lighting Their Fires

By Liam Julian   
Reviews, Teachers and Teaching  

Strange Bedfellows

Students find unexpected ally in the Christian Right

By Joshua Dunn and Martha Derthick 
Briefs, Courts and Law, The Legal Beat  

The Unknown World of Charter High Schools

New evidence suggests they are boosting high school graduation and college attendance rates

By Kevin Booker, Tim R. Sass, Brian Gill and Ron Zimmer   
Charter Schools and Vouchers, Homepage, Research  

A Courageous Look at the American High School

The legacy of James Coleman

By Paul E. Peterson 
Features, Homepage, School Policy  

Tale of Two Cities

Review of Gerald Grant’s Hope and Despair in the ?American City

By Nathan Glazer 
Courts and Law, Governance and Leadership, Reviews  

High School 2.0

Can Philadelphia’s School of the Future live up to its name?

By Dale Mezzacappa   
Curriculum, Features, Homepage, On Top of the News, Technology  

Finding Time for Tennis and Thoreau

My online education

By Brett Ellen Keeler   
Briefs, Curriculum, School Life, Technology  

In the Wake of the Storm

How vouchers came to the Big Easy

By Michael B. Henderson   
Charter Schools and Vouchers, Features, Governance and Leadership, Homepage, On Top of the News  

Gender Gap

Are boys being shortchanged in K–12 schooling?

By Richard Whitmire and Susan McGee Bailey   
Forum, Homepage, On Top of the News, Teachers and Teaching  

Quality Counts and the Chance-for-Success Index

Narrowing its scope to factors schools can control would give the measure greater value

By Margaret Raymond and the CREDO team   
Check the Facts, Homepage, School Life, Standards, Testing, and Accountability  

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