Articles from Education Next (December 22, 2001)

Title	Author	Type	Words
A steeper, better road to graduation. (Feature).	Bishop, John H.		3451
A work in progress: Michigan's potent combination of interdistrict choice and charter schooling is forcing traditional public schools to take notice. Whether they respond is often a different story. (Forum).	Sykes, Gary		3168
Can't let go: just a few years back, school-based management was the rage in Cleveland. Except that the central office wasn't all that interested in relinquishing control. (Forum).	Ryan, Patrick J.		3368
Choice words: religious schools, parental choices. (Book Review).		Book Review	3751
Correspondence.			2176
Finishing touches: More than a quarter of all public schools in Arizona are now charter schools. Some districts have lost more than 20 percent of their students to charters. Guess who's concerned? (Forum).	Maranto, Robert		3511
Fixing federal research: education demands a first-rate R&D shop. The Department of Education isn't it-yet. (Feature).	Vinovskis, Maris A.		2959
Her worship: cities look for a savior to transform their school systems, but lasting reform takes a sustained, community-wide effort. (Forum).	Hill, Paul T.		3417
Old wine, new bottles. (Forum).	Cibulka, James G.		5085
Putting parents first: A cause worth fighting for. (Education Matters to Me).	Ridge, Thomas J.	Brief Article	637
Rising tide: critics of school choice have grossly underestimated the public school system's ability to respond to competition. (Research).	Hoxby, Caroline Minter		3861
Round and round they go: take my urban school district, please. (Forum).		Brief Article	211
School home. (Feature).	Hammons, Christopher W.		3805
The looming shadow: Can the threat of vouchers persuade a public school to turn itself around? (Research).	Greene, Jay P.		3991
The new education market: examining the early responses of public schools to competition. (From the Editors).		Brief Article	714
The work ahead: creating a truly competitive market in education will require nothing less than a complete overhaul of the rules and culture of public schooling. (Forum).	Hess, Frederick M.		3446
When schools compete: does school choice push public schools to improve? (Forum).		Brief Article	185