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Summer 2012 / Vol. 12, No. 3

Not All Teachers Are Made of Ticky-Tacky, Teaching Just the Same

The true import of the Chetty study

By Paul E. Peterson 
From the Editor, Technology  

Teaching the Teachers

Achievement Network offers support for data-driven instruction

By June Kronholz 
Features, Inside Schools, Journal, Teachers and Teaching  

Fight Club

Are advocacy organizations changing the politics of education?

By Patrick McGuinn 
Features, Homepage, Journal, On Top of the News, School Spending  

Great Teaching

Measuring its effects on students’ future earnings

By Raj Chetty, John N. Friedman and Jonah E. Rockoff 
Homepage, Journal, On Top of the News, Research, Teachers and Teaching  

Door Still Closed

Alabama plaintiffs lose federal school finance challenge

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

When Education Reform Gets Personal

Confessions of a policy-wonk father

By Scott Joftus 
Briefs, Inside Schools, Journal, School Life  

Do Schools Begin Too Early?

The effect of start times on student achievement

By Finley Edwards 
Homepage, Inside Schools, Journal, On Top of the News, Research  

Best Practices Are the Worst

Picking the anecdotes you want to believe: A book review of Marc Tucker’s “Surpassing Shanghai”

By Jay P. Greene 
Books, International, Journal, Reviews  

Special Choices

Do voucher schools serve students with disabilities?

By Patrick J. Wolf, John F. Witte and David J. Fleming 
Charter Schools and Vouchers, Features, Homepage, Journal, Special Education  

Moynihan Redux

Sadly, still more single-parent families. A review of Mitch Pearlstein’s “Shortchanging Student Achievement: The Educational, Economic, and Social Costs of Family Fragmentation”

By Nathan Glazer 
Books, Journal, Reviews  

Michigan’s Chartering Strategy

Choice and competition are good for authorizers, too

By James N. Goenner 
Charter Schools and Vouchers, Features, Homepage, Journal, School Policy  

The Common Core Math Standards

Are they a step forward or backward?

By Ze`ev Wurman and W. Stephen Wilson 
Curriculum, Forum, Homepage, Journal, On Top of the News  

Neither Broad Nor Bold

A narrow-minded approach to school reform

By Paul E. Peterson 
Check the Facts, Homepage, Journal  

The Newsroom’s View of Education Reform

Surprise! The press paints a distorted picture

By Michael Petrilli 
Briefs, Journal, Media, Public Opinion, What Next  

Hyper Hype

Will digital learning be killed by kindness?

By Mark Bauerlein 
Books, Journal, Reviews, Technology  

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