Summer 2001: Vol. 1, No. 2

Why Students in Some Countries Do Better

International evidence on the importance of education policy

Flunking ETS

The Educational Testing Service makes divining the methods of good teachers look easy. It's not.

Defrocking the National Board

Will the imprimatur of "board certification" professionalize teaching?

Getting a Head Start

Is preschool too early for academic instruction?

Choice Lite

Learning from the New Zealand experiment

The Charter Movement

Public education's new lease on life

A Few Good Schools

Why start a charter school in the style of a military college-prep academy? Put simply, Oakland’s public high schools are a disaster.

Much Too Early

SIDEBAR: Head Start by Tyce Palmaffy. SIDEBAR: More than the Three Rs by Edward Zigler and Sally J. Styfco.

Much Too Late

Preschool classrooms in which teachers believe it is developmentally inappropriate to teach early literacy are classrooms in which only children who get this help at home will be ready for school.

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