Recently added articles from Education Next:
What is good for General Motors ... is good for education.(from the editors)
Mar 22, 2009; Peterson, Paul E. ... "What is good for the country is good for General Motors--and vice versa," pronounced proud Charlie Wilson, the former GM chief who became secretary of defense to President Eisenhower. Now we might say it a bit differently, "If restructuring is necessary for General Motors, it's ...
Choice benefits.(correspondence)(Letter to the editor)
Mar 22, 2009; Glenn, Charles L. ... The most intriguing aspect of the study of the relationship between the proportion of pupils in nongovernment schools and achievement on the PISA international comparisons ("School Choice International," research, Winter 2009) is its use of data from 1900 to identity countries with a ...
IES under Whitehurst.(correspondence)(Letter to the editor)
Mar 22, 2009; Granger, Robert C. ... When Andrew Rudalevige interviewed me for his recent article ("Juggling Act,"features, Winter 2009), the National Board for Education Sciences, an Institute of Education Sciences (IES) advisory board that I chaired, had not yet completed its con-gressionally mandated report on the ...
Milwaukee choice finance.(correspondence)(Letter to the editor)
Mar 22, 2009; Mitchell, George ... Robert Costrell's analysis of school choice finance in Milwaukee ("Who Gains, Who Loses?" research, Winter 2009) fills a gaping void. Throughout the 18-year history of the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program, misinformation about its fiscal impact has been widespread. Three factors explain ...
Home schooling.(correspondence)(Letter to the editor)
Mar 22, 2009 ... I read Milton Gaither's fine piece on home schooling ("Home Schooling Goes Mainstream " features, Winter 2009) as I was preparing for an evening meeting of the board of directors of the South Carolina Association of Independent Home Schools (SCAIHS). Gaither's essay reminded me of how much ...
Alternative certification.(correspondence)(Letter to the editor)
Mar 22, 2009; Cibulka, James G. ... I applaud Education Next for its research on ways in which nontraditional programs are recruiting individuals of color into the teaching field. The National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) has accredited Western Governors University, an institution committed to ...
Union watch.(correspondence)(Letter to the editor)
Mar 22, 2009; Koppich, Julia E. ... Linda Seebach ("Same Old, Same Old," features, Winter 2009) asserts that new leadership at both the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and the National Education Association (NEA) signifies no change in these organizations' policies or positions, a situation she finds untenable. The new ...
Technology for learning.(correspondence)(Letter to the editor)
Mar 22, 2009; Corzo, Luis F. ... Regarding the article "How Do We Transform Our Schools?" (features, Summer 2008), I agree that as organizations continue successful integration of software and web-based solutions into existing teaching methods, the software applications will become more customized; they will have to. The ...
Timeout: schools win in court.(the legal beat)
Mar 22, 2009; Dunn, Joshua ... When a lawsuit charges a school with violating the Constitution by using timeouts to control a violent child, judicialization of education has arguably reached a new extreme. Yet federal appellate judges resisted intervention, and instead showed that the Individuals with Disabilities ...
Straddling the Democratic divide: will reforms follow Obama's spending on education?(feature)
Mar 22, 2009; Colvin, Richard Lee ... Secretary of Education Arne Duncan's Senate confirmation hearing in January was thick with encomiums. He was praised by Democrat Tom Harkin of Iowa for the "fresh thinking" he brought to his post as Chicago schools chief for seven years. Republican Lamar Alexander, education secretary ...
Accountability overboard: Massachusetts poised to toss out the nation's most successful reforms.(feature)
Mar 22, 2009; Chieppo, Charles D. ... President Barack Obama and Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick are both brilliant orators who espouse the "politics of hope." Both know about hope firsthand, having overcome less-than-privileged backgrounds to achieve great success. Patrick endorsed Obama early in the campaign and is a ...
Work Hard. Be Nice: the roots and reality of the Knowledge Is Power Program.(feature)(excerpt from Work Hard, Be Nice: How Two Inspired Teachers Created the Most Promising Schools in America)(Excerpt)
Mar 22, 2009; Mathews, Jay ... In 1994, fresh from a two-year stint with Teach For America, Mike Feinberg and Dave Levin inaugurated the Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP) in Houston with an enrollment of 49 5th graders. By this Fall, 75 KIPP schools will be up and running, setting children from poor and minority ...
Teacher cooperatives: what happens when teachers run the school?(feature)
Mar 22, 2009; Hawkins, Beth ... Cris Parr stands in a sunny room in an old high school surveying rows of drill presses, saws, and other outmoded industrial behe moths. Clearly no one has taught shop here in a long time, not since the goal was to prepare kids from the struggling neighborhood outside for a life in the ...
Teacher training, tailor-made: top candidates win customized teacher education.(feature)
Mar 22, 2009; Newman, Katherine ... One May afternoon in Boston, 85 teachers in training arrived at the bayside campus of the University of Massachusetts for a three-hour class called Family Partnerships for Achievement. The instructors had invited several public school parents to come in and offer the future teachers ...
E Pluribus Unum? Two longtime school reformers debate the merits of the national curriculum.(forum)(Chester E. Finn Jr. and Deborah Meier)(Interview)
Mar 22, 2009; Finn, Chester ... The push for a national curriculum is gaining momentum as reformers press states to acknowledge "world class" benchmarks for student achievement. The topic had been dormant since Clinton-era efforts to promote "voluntary national standards" yielded little more than charges of political ...
Teacher retirement benefits: even in economically tough times, costs are higher than ever.(research)
Mar 22, 2009; Costrell, Robert M. ... The ongoing global financial crisis is forcing many employers, from General Motors to local general stores, to take a hard look at the costs of the compensation packages they offer employees. For public school systems, this will entail a consideration of fringe benefit costs, which in ...
For-profit and nonprofit management in Philadelphia schools: what kind of management does better than the district-run schools?(research)
Mar 22, 2009; Peterson, Paul E. ... The federal law No Child Left Behind (NCLB) requires states to "restructure" any school that fails for six years running to make Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) toward full proficiency on the part of all students by the year 2014. The law provides a number of restructuring options, ...
The education factor: schooling once drove the nation's rise to the top, but things have changed, unfortunately.(The Race Between Education and Technology)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; Gross, Daniel ... The Race between Education and Technology By Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz Belknap Press, 2008, $39.95; 496 pages. Many of the briefs for American exceptionalism, from de Tocqueville's Democracy in America to Louis Hartz's The Liberal Tradition in ...
Finding the right remedy: when court-ordered magnet schools don't work, try charters.(Complex Justice: The Case of Missouri v. Jenkins)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; Glazer, Nathan ... Complex Justice: The Case of Missouri v. Jenkins By Joshua M. Dunn University of North Carolina Press, 2008, $37.50; 226 pages. If there are any school districts still under tight federal supervision of efforts to desegregate schoolchildren, more than a ...
More money for less accountability? I don't think so!(Grading Education: Getting Accountability Right)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; Finn, Chester E., Jr. ... Grading Education: Getting Accountability Right By Richard Rothstein, Rebecca Jacobsen and Tamara Wilder Economic Policy Institute and Teachers College Press, 2008, $19.95; 263 pages. Some may take this wrong-headed book seriously, given the credentials of ...
