Winter 2008 / Vol. 8, No. 1
Wave of the Future
Why charter schools should replace failing urban schools
Learning Separately
The case for single-sex schools
Accountability Lost
Student learning is seldom a factor in school board elections
Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader?
Fox TV show doesn’t get it
Campaign 101
Make charters a political advantage
Let’s Talk About It
Talk radio’s take on K–12 education
Book Alert
Pay-for-Performance Teacher Compensation: An Inside View of Denver’s ProComp Plan. Phil Gonring, Paul Teske, and Brad Jupp (Harvard Education Press). The authors have delivered a straight-shooting, inside account of the design, politics, and implementation of the much-discussed Denver ProComp teacher pay plan—a plan the Denver Post termed “the nation’s most ambitious.” Widely regarded as the [...]
Creativity Rising
Fewer slide rules, more paint brushes
Inside the Testing Factory
Some schools make it work
Doubtful Jurisprudence
Court offers schools little guidance
Excellence Reformers Need to Make a Choice
Is accountability the reform of the past?
The Right Republican Strategy
“By…[selecting] the youths of genius from among the classes of the poor, we hope to avail the State of those talents which nature has sown as liberally among the poor as the rich, but which perish without use if not sought for and cultivated.” —Thomas Jefferson, 1782 “We need to challenge the soft bigotry of [...]
The Democratic Take
The 2008 presidential election stands as a “change” election. The public’s anxiety over the challenges globalization poses to the future of the American Dream is driving a desire for the country to change direction. The American people understand that what will give the nation a competitive advantage in a global marketplace are the skills, creativity, [...]
Election 2008: The Education Debate
In the 2000 election, President Bush’s pledge to combat the “soft bigotry of low expectations” was a pillar of his compassionate conservatism and crucial to his razor-thin margin of victory. That election begat the now-controversial No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). The law has split the Right between those who cheer accountability and those who [...]
St. Louis Blues
Tax credits down and out in Missouri
Peaks, Cliffs, and Valleys
The peculiar incentives of teacher pensions
Accountability Incentives
Do schools practice educational triage?
American Teachers
What values do they hold?
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