Summer 2005 / Vol. 5, No. 3
The School Lunch Lobby
A charmed federal food program that no longer just feeds the hungry
The Accidental Principal
What doesn’t get taught at ed schools?
Charters as Role Models
The charter school movement turns 14
this year, and its behavior, some might say, is “developmentally
appropriate.”
Vote Early, Vote Often – Figures 2 & 3
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Vote Early, Vote Often – Figure 1
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America the Unbelievable
America (The Book): A Citizen’s Guide to Democracy Inaction by the writers of The Daily Show, with Jon Stewart. With a foreword by Thomas Jefferson.
Training Teachers
The Trouble with Ed Schools By David F. Labaree
Summer 2005 Correspondence
Readers Respond
Tread on Me—but Lightly
The Era of Big Government Is Complicated
Equity v. Equity
Checked: “Quality Counts,” Education Week, January 6, 2005 “The Funding Gap,” Education Trust, Fall 2004. Checked by Robert M. Costrell This is a tale of two rankings. They represent the best of states-and the worst of states. A little wisdom and considerable foolishness. Some light, some darkness. Most of all, they purport to be about [...]
The English Experiment
n developed countries like the United States and Britain, the continuing challenge for educators is to sort through the choices of an all-you-can-eat school system and teach the basic skills. Despite so-called universal education, an alarming number of people still fail to reach even basic levels of literacy. According to Sir Claus Moser, chairman of [...]
Vote Early, Vote Often
The role of schools in creating civic norms
Don’t Tie Us Down
The reality is that there is no such thing as an admirable manner of “doing school”: our children and our communities are too richly varied for that.
Johnny Can Read…in Some States
Johnny can’t read … in South Carolina. But if his folks move to Texas, he’ll be reading up a storm. What’s going on? It turns out that in complying with the requirements of No Child Left Behind (NCLB), some states have decided to be a whole lot more generous than others in determining whether students [...]
Inadequate Yearly Progress
As almost everyone knows by now, the central aim of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) law is to make every public-school student proficient in reading and math by the year 2014. It is a laudable goal, as the overwhelmingly bipartisan congressional support for the legislation in 2001 proved. The law’s drafters even had the [...]
Unflagged SATs
When the College Board announced, in the summer of 2002, that it would stop “flagging” the test scores of students who were given special accommodations for the SAT, the gold standard exam for college admission, disability advocates were thrilled. “A triumphant day for millions of people with dyslexia and other disabilities,” exclaimed Thomas Viall, the [...]
The Legal Cash Machine
The various solicitors in the cause, some two or three of whom have inherited it from their fathers-might look in vain for truth at the bottom of it between the registrar’s red table and the silk gowns, with bills, cross-bills, answers, rejoinders, injunctions, affidavits, issues, references to masters, masters’ reports, mountains of costly nonsense, piled [...]
What’s for Lunch?
A restaurant critic goes to the school cafeteria
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