Winter 2007 / Vol. 7, No. 1
FEATURES
New Leaders for Troubled Schools
Jacquelyn Davis works with D.C.’s education bureaucracy
Reflections on the One-Room Schoolhouse
If children showed any aptitude and ambition for learning, they were not hampered by restrictions [or] rules
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
Preschool Is School, Sometimes
Making early childhood education matter
Learning Facts
The brave new world of data-informed instruction
Courtroom Alchemy
Adequacy advocates turn guesstimates into gold
Games Charter Opponents Play
How local school boards–and their allies–block the competition
RESEARCH
Judging Money
When courts decide how to spend taxpayer dollars
FORUM
Charters as a Solution?
So far, states and districts have opted for anything but
Easy Way Out
“Restructured” usually means little has changed
The NCLB Restruct-a-tron
Does the law’s great big machine for overhauling schools produce anything worthwhile?
CHECK THE FACTS
The NCES Private-Public School Study
Findings are other than they seem
BOOK REVIEWS
The Triumph of Look-Say
Dumbing-down reading instruction
