Articles from Education Next (March 22, 2004)

Title	Author	Type	Words
A Board's eye view: the town's public schools were among the worst. Yet no one seemed to care.	Meyer, E. Y.		4778
A building need: charter schools in search of good homes.	Landry, Julie		2435
A kibbutz education: the collective farm was a powerful educational tool.	Etzioni, Amitai		615
Cheating teachers.	Paige, Rod		269
Civic education.	Levine, Peter		538
Civic Education: can public schools teach good citizenship?	Finn, Chester E., Jr.		5791
Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation of Language and Music and Why We Should, Like, Care.			186
Exploring the costs of accountability: claims that the No Child Left Behind Act represents an "unfunded mandate" wilt under close scrutiny.	Costrell, Robert		4363
Finding good leaders.			370
How to decentralize.			417
Judging School Discipline: The Crisis of Moral Authority.			148
Just the Facts: a guide for school researchers.	Finn, Chester E., Jr.		318
No Child Left Behind? The Politics and Practices of School Accountability.			134
Not getting it.	Buxton, Bruce E.		266
School of Dreams: Making the Grade at a Top American High School.			176
Teachers unions: the good, the bad, and the ugly.	Koppich, Julia E.		1310
The gentleman's "A": new evidence that tough-grading teachers elicit better student performance.	Lucas, Maurice E.		3213
The inclusion mandate.	Allbritten, Drew		251
The open classroom: schools without walls became all the rage during the early 1970s. Were they just another fad?	Cuban, Larry		1905
The race connection: are teachers more effective with students who share their ethnicity?	Dee, Thomas S.		3089
The sun sets on the West: today's social studies experts preach an anti-western ideology.	Burack, Jonathan		3263
Tough love: the value of high grading standards.	West, Martin		725
Uncivil war: a bloodless account of a bitter battle.	Raimi, Ralph A.		1087
Voucher research controversy: new looks at the New York City evaluation.	Howell, William G.		3348