Education Reform

Defining Adequacy Up Defining Adequacy Up

Failing public schools violate state constitutions, new court decisions say.

Feb 23, 2001 / Feature / Peter Schrag

Teaching Test-Taking? Teaching Test-Taking?

The establishment verdict is in: President-elect Bush made an astute choice by tapping Rod Paige, Houston's School Superintendent, to head his Education Department. The New York ...

Jan 11, 2001 / Feature / Stephen Metcalf

Measures That Mattered Measures That Mattered

As the media obsessed over the seesaw presidential poll, voters across the country quietly made their choices on more than 200 disparate ballot measures and initiatives. For prog...

Nov 10, 2000 / Marc Cooper

Racial Justice 101 Racial Justice 101

In a presidential election year, few issues inspire more citizen anguish and less political substance than public education. This year is no exception.

May 18, 2000 / The Editors

School Colors School Colors

How can we respond most effectively to right-wing assaults on the premises of public education? Amy Wilkins: The way that you deal with th

May 18, 2000 / Feature / Luis Garden Acosta, Lisa Delpit, Harold Levy, Adam Urbanski, Deborah Wei, Amy Wilkins, and Herbert Kohl

The Details of Life The Details of Life

This article is adapted from Ordinary Resurrections: Children in the Years of Hope (Crown).

May 3, 2000 / Feature / Jonathan Kozol

The New U The New U

While the public has been napping, the American university has been busily reinventing itself.

Mar 30, 2000 / Books & the Arts / David Kirp

Education and the Election Education and the Election

By now most of us accept as almost inevitable the idea that education, meaning school reform and access to college, is at or near the top of the political agenda, both in the sta...

Feb 16, 2000 / Feature / Peter Schrag

An Antisocial Idea An Antisocial Idea

Just because the ed whiz-biz politicians and the education bureaucrats have announced the end of "social promotion" doesn't mean that it ever existed--not for the past thirty yea...

Feb 16, 2000 / Feature / Susan Ohanian

Standardized Schools Standardized Schools

Wielding high-stakes tests, a noisy alliance of politicians, corporate CEOs and media pundits seems intent on standardizing education, proclaiming that every kid in America shoul...

Sep 30, 1999 / Susan Ohanian

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