Recently added articles from Education Next:
The next president had many school choices; Will he provide similar opportunities for others?(Editorial)
Sep 22, 2008; Peterson, Paul E. ... Not since Abraham Lincoln have we had a president with as unusual an early education as the one experienced by the man who will take office on January 20, 2009. John McCain and Barack Obama each had considerably more formal schooling than "Honest Abe," who spent only a few months in a ...
Disrupting class.(correspondence)(Letter to the editor)
Sep 22, 2008; Doyle, Denis P. ... Clay Christensen and Michael Horn's essay ("How Do We Transform Our Schools?" features, Summer 2008) has a plaintive quality to it. Their argument about disruptive innovation is compelling in a for-profit setting, not so in elementary and secondary schools, which are positively hostile to ...
Reading first.(correspondence)(Letter to the editor)
Sep 22, 2008; Lyon, Reid G. ... Shep Barbash has done a masterful job of explaining the goals of the Reading First program and its journey through periods of legislative gymnastics, controversy, and success in selected states ("Looking Beyond the Reading First Controversy," features, Summer 2008). Barbash has underscored ...
Wrong numbers.(correspondence)(Letter to the editor)
Sep 22, 2008; Brown, Cynthia G. ... William Howell and Martin West have written an interesting article about Americans' utter ignorance concerning the amounts their tax dollars contribute to public education costs ("Is the Price Right?" features, Summer 2008). While homeowners and parents were somewhat more knowledgeable ...
A matter of time.(correspondence)(Letter to the editor)
Sep 22, 2008; Davis, Jennifer ... We read with great interest the article by Caroline Hoxby and Sonali Murarka, which reports promising results from their randomized-control study of New York City charter school students ("New York City Charter Schools," research, Summer 2008). One aspect of their research in particular ...
Charters as a diverse sector.(correspondence)(Letter to the editor)
Sep 22, 2008; Welner, Kevin G. ... Charter schools are too often treated as a monolithic reform and too rarely treated as a diverse sector. When we think of charter schools as a reform, we tend to either praise or criticize, depending on the particular snapshot of charter schools we're discussing. When we think of them as a ...
Home schoolers strike back; California case centers on parents' rights.(the legal beat)
Sep 22, 2008; Dunn, Joshua ... To their surprise, California's home-schooling parents found out in February that they were scofflaws. A state appellate court ruled in In re Rachel L. that state law requires all children to be taught be certified teachers. Thus, nearly 200,000 children were being taught illegally, ...
The 2008 education next--PEPG survey of public opinion; Americans think less of their schools than of their police departments and post offices.(feature)(Survey)
Sep 22, 2008; Howell, William G. ... Americans clearly have had their fill of a sluggish economy and an unpopular war. Their frustration now may also extend to public education. In this, the second annual national survey of U.S. adults conducted under the auspices of Education Next and the Program on Education Policy and ...
The early education of our next president; Not much in public schools.(feature)
Sep 22, 2008; Meyer, Peter ... One of them, Barack Obama, was awakened at four in the morning in Jakarta to study from a correspondence course; the other, John McCain, attended grade school in old airplane hangars. Both went on to elite private high schools. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Whether it is ...
Scrap the sacrosanct salary schedule; How about more pay for new teachers, less for older ones?(feature)(Viewpoint essay)
Sep 22, 2008; Vigdor, Jacob ... On what basis should we distribute rewards to salespeople? It seems like a silly question, doesn't it? First, "we," meaning the public at large, don't usually get to decide such matters. Second, there are obvious systems of rewards for salespeople already in place, foremost ...
Out jail and into jobs; Maya Angelou Public Charter School offers hope and an education to kids in trouble.(feature)
Sep 22, 2008; Forman, James, Jr ... "Tell the judge I want a program," pleaded Eddie. "Tell him I don't need to be locked up." Eddie was my client, 16 years old, charged with breaking into a house and stealing a TV and VCR. A Formica table separated us in a dingy room in the Oak Hill juvenile detention center, the jail for ...
An appeal to authority; The New Paternalism in urban schools.(feature)
Sep 22, 2008; Whitman, David ... By the time youngsters reach high school in the United States, the achievement gap is immense. The average black 12th grader has the reading and writing skills of a typical white 8th grader and the math skills of a typical white 7th grader. The gap between white and Hispanic students is ...
Preschool puzzle; As state after state expands pre-K schooling, questions remain.(forum)
Sep 22, 2008; Besharov, Douglas ... Last year, more than 30 states increased public funding for pre-K education. Advocates Pre-K Now and its congressional allies are pushing for new federal spending and regulations. Some analysts project enormous long-term benefits to participants from publicly funded "universal" pre-K as ...
Cash for test scores; The impact of the research Texas Advanced Placement incentive program.(research)
Sep 22, 2008; Jackson, C. Kirabo ... Cash incentives for high school students to perform better in school are growing in popularity, but we understand very little about them. Does paying students for better Advanced Placement (AP) test scores encourage enrollment in AP classes? Does it lead to more students taking the tests ...
Something's Better Than Nothing; Why technology in education doesn't need to be very good.
Sep 22, 2008; Glazer, Nathan ... Disrupting Class: Why Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns By Clayton M. Christensen, with Michael B. Horn and Curtis W. Johnson McGraw-Hill, 2008, $32,95; 288 pages. Clayton Christensen is a professor at the Harvard Business School ...
Where Did NCLB Come From? The true story of the federal role in education.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; Spoehr, Luther ... See Government Grow: Education Politics from Johnson to Reagan By Gareth Davies University Press of Kansas, 2007, $39.95; 387 pages. Gareth Davies, a historian at Oxford University, brings care and precision to his study of the process that produced federal ...
Homeschool: An American History. Milton Gaither (Palgrave Macmillan).(Brief article)(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008 ... Homeschool: An American History. Milton Gaither (Palgrave Macmillan). This engaging scholarly work offers a sweeping history of education conducted in the home from the colonial period through the present. It charts the evolution of domestic instruction from a familiar practice ...
Augmented Learning: Research and Design of Mobile Educational Games. Eric Klopfer (MIT Press).(Brief article)(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008 ... Augmented Learning: Research and Design of Mobile Educational Games. Eric Klopfer (MIT Press). Writing about education technology tends to dwell on long-term visions or tout the merits of expensive hardware investments (one laptop per child, anyone?). In this new book, MIT ...
Relentless Pursuit: A Year in the Trenches with Teach for America. Donna Foote (Alfred A. Knopf).(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008 ... Relentless Pursuit: A Year in the Trenches with Teach for America. Donna Foote (Alfred A. Knopf). Since 1990, Teach For America (TFA) has placed 17,000 teachers in more than 1,000 high-need schools, and the organization has ambitious plans for expanding more rapidly. This year, ...
Race, Schools, & Hope: African Americans and School Choice after Brown. Lisa M. Stulberg (Teachers College Press).(Brief article)(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008 ... Race, Schools, & Hope: African Americans and School Choice after Brown. Lisa M. Stulberg (Teachers College Press). Plodding through this book can be a maddening exercise, what with its paeans to progressive icons (Cornel West! Howard Zinn!), its disdain for "White, Republican, conservative ...