Winter 2007 / Vol. 7, No. 1
New Leaders for Troubled Schools
Jacquelyn Davis works with D.C.’s education bureaucracy
Photo Finish
Teacher Certification Doesn’t Guarantee a Winner
Readers Respond
Teacher Gender; Hope in New Orleans; Miracle Math; PE in Schools; Newark’s Cory Booker; National Standards
Reflections on the One-Room Schoolhouse
If children showed any aptitude and ambition for learning, they were not hampered by restrictions [or] rules
No Business Like Show Business
Hollywood and Hip-Hop Discover Charter Schools
Book Alert
Cutting Through the Hype: A Taxpayer’s Guide to School Reforms. Jane L. David and Larry Cuban (Education Week Press). Silver bullets come not here. In this slender, readable volume, veteran educators Jane David (now head of the Bay Area Research Group) and Larry Cuban (emeritus education professor at Stanford) conduct a breakneck tour of almost—but [...]
The “Crits” Capture Presidential Power
Top Education researchers denounce scientific research
The Triumph of Look-Say
Dumbing-down reading instruction
The NCES Private-Public School Study
Findings are other than they seem
Judging Money
When courts decide how to spend taxpayer dollars
Charters as a Solution?
So far, states and districts have opted for anything but
Easy Way Out
“Restructured” usually means little has changed
Preschool Is School, Sometimes
Making early childhood education matter
Learning Facts
The brave new world of data-informed instruction
The NCLB Restruct-a-tron
Does the law’s great big machine for overhauling schools produce anything worthwhile?
Courtroom Alchemy
Adequacy advocates turn guesstimates into gold
Games Charter Opponents Play
How local school boards–and their allies–block the competition
Affirmative Action Docketed
The Supreme Court takes up race-based school assignment
Misdirected Energy
Schools get an A in resisting reform.
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