Summer 2003 / Vol. 3, No. 3
FEATURES
Security Detail
An inside look at school discipline
Study Abroad
Why Schools Matter: A Cross-National Comparison of Curriculum and Learning
by William H. Schmidt et al.
Paper tiger unions; Bronze Age of education; and nimble charters
Paper tiger unions; Bronze Age of education; and nimble charters
High-Stakes Research
Accountability works after all
Locked Down
Will failing public schools let students leave?
Façade of Excellence
Stuyvesant High School’s dirty little secret
Are Teachers Underpaid?
It is often said that the nation does not properly value teaching. Is this true? Illustrations by Gordon Studer. As the nation continues to search for ways to upgrade the public school system, much attention has focused on how to improve the quality of K–12 teachers. The focus makes perfect sense: nothing in education is […]
RESEARCH
Learning to Earn
How higher standards affect graduation and employment
Crowd Control
Does reducing class size work?
FORUM
Comparable Worth
Salary data fail to account for the shorter workday and work year in teaching. Once adjusted, teacher salaries look about right.
Low Pay, Low Quality
For decades the nation has been able to school its children on the cheap by exploiting a trapped workforce of educated women. Those days are long gone.
CHECK THE FACTS
Educational Achievement and Black-White Inequality
Does the black-white test-score gap narrow or widen through the school years? It depends on how you measure. Illustration by Janusz Kapusta. Educational Achievement and Black-White Inequality By Jonathan Jacobsen, Cara Olsen, Jennifer King Rice, Stephen Sweetland, and John Ralph National Center for Education Statistics, July 2001. Through the 1960s, African-Americans earned much less than whites—even when their cognitive abilities (as […]
Fringe Benefits
There is more to compensation than a teacher’s salary
BOOK REVIEWS
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
BRIEFS
Meet Mr. Shannon
At Bronx Prep, a master teacher shares his expertise. Photograph courtesy of Kristin Kearns Jordan.
