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A Setback in Dover

Last rites for Intelligent Design

Book Alert

What School Boards Can Do: Reform Governance for Urban Schools. Donald McAdams (Teachers College Press). Don...

“Acting White”

saving the American high school; more underground education; the Gates Foundation; talking about race

Leaving “School” Out of High School

The Winding Road to Academic Excellence

Tales from the Inside

Another Planet: A Year in the Life of a Suburban High School By Elinor Burkett HarperCollins, 2001,...

The Traditional High School

Historical debates over its nature and function

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Generational Change: Closing the Test Score Gap. Edited by Paul Peterson (Rowman & Littlefield). In the controversial...

Things Are Falling Apart

Can the center find a solution that will hold?

A Trip to the Rose Garden

The Student Who Taught Me How to Teach

The Adolescent Society

James Coleman's still-prescient insights

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