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By Robert Holland and Don Soifer 
Public education in the United States is intrinsically a local endeavor. The notion that state and local decision makers should have maximum flexibility in the use of education dollars is rooted in the belief that many of the most useful innovations in education are emerging, and are likely to continue to emerge close to home.

By Robert Holland and Don Soifer - At a time when the nation prosecutes its war on terrorism across four continents and chases down deadly remnants of Iraqi armies, the National Education Association has chosen to go to battle against

Many educators and non-educators alike are advocating that every new teacher have a mentor. For a book I am under contract to write about teacher preparation (scheduled for publication in early 2003),

By Robert Holland - Little noticed in the "No Child Left Behind" education reform bill that President Bush will sign into law early in 2002 is a shift toward greater autonomy for localities in how they use federal funds for attracting knowledgeable teachers into the classrooms.

by Robert Holland - When the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), an arm of the U.S. Department of Education, published the results of its survey of American home schoolers in July 2001, some of the figures on demographic distribution fairly jumped off the pages.

By Robert Holland
For many years, conservatives advocated school vouchers with a free-market fervor that gave the impression they owned the issue.

By Robert Holland - For many years, conservatives advocated school vouchers with a free-market fervor that gave the impression they owned the issue. But in recent months liberals have been breaking with government education's vested interests and embracing vouchers

Reviewed by ROBERT HOLLAND
Were Christina Hoff Sommers blessed with two daughters instead of two sons, would she still be the voice in the academic wilderness crying out that boys, not girls, are the victims of the zeitgeist?