Summer 2004 / Vol. 4, No. 3
Portfolio Assessment
Can it be used to hold schools accountable?
The Waiting Game
Will school districts hire New Leaders?
The Future of School Boards
Agents of reform or defenders of the status quo?
Faith in the Law
The Supreme Court upholds religious discrimination
Book Alert
Common Sense School Reform by Frederick M. Hess (Palgrave Macmillan). Common sense suggests that educators, like everyone else, are more effective when given the flexibility to innovate and held accountable for their performance. Unfortunately, as our own executive editor Frederick Hess demonstrates, common sense is a tool rarely used in school reform. Much of what [...]
Quality Curricula
Public Education as a Business: Real Costs and Accountability by Myron Lieberman & Charlene K. Haar
Equally Mediocre
Final Test: The Battle for Adequacy in America’s Schools by Peter Schrag
The costs of No Child Left Behind; choosing teachers
Costly estimates In the article “Exploring the Costs of Accountability” (Feature, Spring 2004), James Peyser and RobertCostrell discuss the critical question in K–12 education finance today: How much will it cost for a school with a particular set of student needs to meet a state’s expectations for performance? Over the past several years our firm [...]
What Mandates?
It’s been said, more than once, that the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) is a mandate that the federal government has failed to fund. Not true, in either respect. The law is neither unfunded nor, with one exception, much of a mandate.
Competition Passes the Test
Vouchers improve public schools in Florida
With Strings Attached
Vouchers improve public schools in Florida
The British Experience
School reform, hijacked
Putting Parents in Charge
Pell Grants for Kids
Driving Change
A progress report on urban school districts’ efforts to execute the mandates of No Child Left Behind
One Child at a Time
An inside look at one city’s efforts to offer families the opportunities promised by No Child Left Behind
Where the Rubber Meets the Road
School districts confront the challenges of rolling out No Child Left Behind’s school choice and supplemental services provisions
Reframing the Mind
Howard Gardner and the theory of multiple intelligences
Lost at Sea
Early 20th century Progressive reformers established elected school boards as a means of shielding public school systems from the politics and patronage of corrupt city governments. Citizens, rather than political dons or their favored appointees, would govern the community’s schools with the community’s interests at heart. Today, however, elected school boards, especially in America’s troubled [...]
Steering a True Course
Agents of reform or defenders of the status quo?
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