Winter 2011 / Vol. 11, No. 1

FEATURES

Diplomatic Mission

President Obama’s path to performance pay

By Andy Smarick
Features, Journal, State and Federal

All Together Now?

Educating high and low achievers in the same classroom

By Michael J. Petrilli
Curriculum, Features, Journal, On Top of the News

The Middle School Mess

If you love bungee jumping, you’re the middle school type

By Peter Meyer
Features, Inside Schools, Journal

Teaching Math to the Talented

Which countries—and states—are producing high-achieving students?

By Eric A. Hanushek, Paul E. Peterson and Ludger Woessmann
Features, International, Journal

Truants

The challenges of keeping kids in school

By June Kronholz
Courts and Law, Features, Journal, On Top of the News

Meeting of the Minds

The 2010 EdNext-PEPG Survey shows that, on many education reform issues, Democrats and Republicans hardly disagree

By William G. Howell, Paul E. Peterson and Martin R. West
Features, Journal, Public Opinion

RESEARCH

Does Competition Improve Public Schools?

New evidence from the Florida tax-credit scholarship program

By Cassandra M.D. Hart and David Figlio
Journal, Research, State and Federal

FORUM

The $500 million Question

Can charter management organizations deliver quality education at scale?

By Kevin Hall and Robin Lake
Charter Schools, Forum, Journal, Vouchers

CHECK THE FACTS

BOOK REVIEWS

How Schools Spend Their Money

Review of Marguerite Roza’s Educational Economics

By Jay P. Greene
Journal, Reviews

E Pluribus Plures

Review of Jeffrey E. Mirel’s Patriotic Pluralism

By Nathan Glazer
Journal, Reviews

BRIEFS

Texas Tackles the Data Problem

New system will give teachers information they can use

By Bill Tucker
Briefs, Journal, Technology, What Next

Wasting Talent

Everyone’s local school needs to do better

By Paul E. Peterson
Briefs, From the Editor, Journal

Educational Providence

New York courts close one door, federal money opens another

By Joshua Dunn
Briefs, Courts and Law, Journal, The Legal Beat

Data-Driven and Off Course

An English teacher’s view

By Roxanna Elden
Briefs, Journal, School Life

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