Articles from Education Next (September 22, 2002)

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Title	Author	Type	Words
Barren land. (Forum).	Easterly, William		3114
Choice words: are private schools truly more effective? (Book Review).	Godwin, R. Kenneth	Book Review	1221
Correspondence.			3202
Credible cassandras: this time, perhaps, the sky really is falling. (From the Editors).		Brief Article	714
Dodging the questions: Phi Delta Kappa and Gallup were given the opportunity to defend their poll. Why didn't they do so? (Check the Facts).	Moe, Terry M.	Statistical Data Included	3875
Educational Jujitsu: how school finance lawyers learned to turn standards and accountability into dollars. (Feature).	Heise, Michael		3485
Full court press: why I am fighting for school choice. (Education Matters to Me).	Fuller, Howard	Brief Article	653
Learning English: strange as it may seem, new evidence shows it's better to know two languages but be taught math in English. (Research).	Guzman, Joseph M.		4008
Quantity over quality; ever-declining class sizes and teachers' dwindling pay have a common explanation: the increasing price of skilled labor. (Research).	Lakdawalla, Darius		3615
Responsible polling: Phi Delta Kappa and the Gallup Poll respond to claims that their poll artificially depresses the public's support for school vouchers. (Check the Facts).	Gallup, Alec M.	Statistical Data Included	3115
Ruly crew: lessons from the Clinton administration's attempts to cajole the states into complying with federal mandates for standards-based reform. (Feature).	Cohen, Michael		3051
Tassels on the cheap: treating the GED as a high-school diploma masks a declining graduation rate. (Feature).	Chaplin, Duncan		2665
The accreditation game: accreditation is supposed to ensure quality teacher training. But with little agreement over what and how to teach, accreditation threatens to become an exercise in ideology. (Feature).	Hess, Frederick M.		4404
The Education Gap: vouchers and urban schools. (Book Review).	Coons, John E.	Book Review	1134
The seeds of growth: the United States became the world's economic superpower over the course of the 20th century. But can today's education system be counted on to fertilize growth in the future? (Forum).	Hanushek, Eric A.		3714
The virtues of randomness: for years, researchers have used randomized field trials to evaluate the effectiveness of medical procedures. (Feature).	Boruch, Robert		2935
Women's work: mothers sustain the home-schooling movement. (Book Review).	Hill, Paul T.	Book Review	1471