Vol. 5, No. 1
Supplemental services; keeping good teachers
Siobhan Gorman’s “Selling Supplemental Services” (Feature, Fall 2004) was informative and engaging, but, like much of the discussion on the subject, it furthers a theme that school districts are the “bad guys.”
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The Softening of American Education
Hard America, Soft America: Competition vs. Coddling and the Battle for the Nation’s Future By Michael Barone
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Reading, Writing, and Willpower
Doomed to Fail: The Built-In Defects of American Education by Paul A. Zoch
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Book Alert
The New Division of Labor: How Computers Are Creating the Next Job Market, by Frank Levy and Richard J. Murnane; Class and Schools: Using Social, Economic, and Educational Reform to Close the Black-White Achievement Gap, by Richard Rothstein; Leaving No Child Behind? Options for Kids in Failing Schools, by Frederick M. Hess and Chester E. Finn Jr., eds.; Standards Deviation: How Schools Misunderstand Education Policy, by James P. Spillane
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Field Notes … 02.12.03
A Day in the Life of an Education Professor Who Came Down from the Ivory Tower to Start a Charter School
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