Winter 2006 / Vol. 6, No. 1
Surviving a Midlife Crisis
Advanced placement turns fifty
A Foundation Goes to School
Bill and Melinda Gates shift from computers in libraries to reform in high schools
Checking NYC’s Facts
New York’s adequacy case; underground education; North Carolina charters; the Bloomberg revolution
The American High School
Can it be saved?
Foundations Matter
A Detroit boy works to fix the public schools
BOOK ALERT
Is Bill Cosby Right? Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind? Michael Eric Dyson. (Basic Books). As part of a diatribe against a beloved, thoughtful television personality, the Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania incessantly misleads the reader about the country’s schools. Contrary to what Michael Dyson asserts, [...]
Color Me Purple
Colormute: Race Talk Dilemmas in an American School by MICA POLLOCK
Sex, Drugs And More Sex and Drugs
I Am Charlotte Simmons by TOM WOLFE
Prep by CURTIS SITTENFELD
If the World Is Flat
A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century by THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
No Lawsuit Left Behind
Chief Justice Roberts, the schoolmaster?
High-School Headache
An institution that works neither for the "talented tenth"
nor those at greatest risk
Friendly Competition
Does the presence of charters spur public schools to improve?
World Wide Wonder?
Measuring the (non-)impact of Internet subsidies to public schools
“Acting White”
The social price paid by the best and brightest minority students
The Adolescent Society
James Coleman's still-prescient insights
Things Are Falling Apart
Can the center find a solution that will hold?
A “Comprehensive” Problem
The disconnect between fantasy and reality
The Traditional High School
For more than a century, American educators and education policymakers have chosen sides in a great debate about the nature and function of American high schools. The origins of this long-running argument can be traced to 1893, when the influential Committee of Ten, a blue-chip panel of educators, issued a report proposing that all public [...]
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