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Court Mandates on School Funding Sharply Decline

11.5.09 - Over the last 40 years, the state courts have become important players in the funding of America’s public schools.  During this period, only a handful of states have escaped state court scrutiny over the allocation and amount of funding they devote to their K-12 schools.

The Turnaround Fallacy

10.28.09 - Andrew Smarick For as long as there have been struggling schools in America's cities, there have been efforts to turn them around. The lure of dramatic improvement runs through Morgan Freeman's big-screen portrayal of bat-wielding principal Joe Clark, philanthropic initiatives like the Gates Foundation's "small schools" project, and No Child Left Behind (NCLB)'s restructuring mandate.

Looking Beyond the Reading First Controversy

By Shepard Barbash
The promise and perils of federal leadership
“Reading First is the most effective federal program in history.” So reads the opening line of a report that Alabama superintendent of education Joseph Morton sent to his congressional delegation last June, in which he recounts how the program has raised reading achievement for poor students in his charge.

Peerless Educator: The Life and Work of Isaac Leon Kandel

Isaac Kandel was an eminent professor of education at Teachers College, Columbia University, during its heyday in the 1920s and 1930s. In the 1940s, when an American commission, made up mainly of university presidents, was asked to reconstitute the education system of a defeated Japan, Isaac Kandel was one of two Teachers College professors selected to serve.

New York City's Education Battles

The mayor, the schools, and the "rinky-dink candy store"
By Peter Meyer
It is not easy getting an interview with Mayor Michael Bloomberg - he's a busy man. He oversees a city of more than 8 million and is thinking (or not, depending on the headline of the day) of running for president of the United States, when he isn't preoccupied with mater-main breaks, terrorist threats, or the losing Yankees.

Teachers for America

By Julie Mikuta and Arthur Wise
Has Teach For America (TFA) improved the caliber of candidates entering the teaching workforce or has it undermined teacher professionalism? 

New study shows schools of choice are better at boosting civic values among students

Photo: students recite the pledge of allegiance.








By Patrick J. Wolf
Do assigned public schools have a comparative advantage over public schools of choiceand private schools in steeping their charges in the civic values necessary for democratic citizenship? The theoretical argument in favor of such an advantage is both intuitive and popular. As free government schools, open to all on equal terms, public schools make an important statement about equality, a fundamental democratic value

Selling Software

How vendors manipulate research and cheat students
By Todd Oppenheimer
When companies that sell instructional software used to come calling on Reid Lyon, expert on reading instruction and former advisor to President Bush, he played a little game. First, he listened politely to the sales reps' enthusiastic pitches and colorful demonstrations of how computer software can build reading skills in new ways. Then he asked to see their technical manuals.

Confessions of a "No Child Left Behind" Supporter

An interview with Sandy Kress

Confessions of a No Child Left Behind Supporter

How were the basic contours of the NCLB accountability system arrived at? Did the drafters of the law truly believe that getting 100 percent of students to proficiency by 2014 was realistic?

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