Articles from Education Next (June 22, 2007)

Title	Author	Type	Words
A murky picture: an attempted takeover goes awry.	Weintraub, Daniel		2604
A ray of hope: politics may still save L.A. schools.	Kerchner, Charles Taylor		1793
Adequately fatigued: court rulings disappoint plaintiffs.	Derthick, Martha		721
Catholic education.	Fowler, Rick		688
Civics exam: schools of choice boost civic values.	Wolf, Patrick J.		3520
Confessions from the classroom: how do teachers know they're working hard enough?	Newman, Katherine		661
Curriculum wars: ancient and modern.	Steiner, David		687
Feds in the Classroom: How Big Government Corrupts, Cripples, and Compromises American Education.			219
In low-income schools, parents want teachers who teach: in affluent schools, other things matter.	Lefgren, Lars		3252
Indianapolis mayor Bart Peterson: the Peyton Manning of charter schools.	Skinner, David		4124
Politics first, students last: a well-heeled commission issues a weak-kneed report.	Peterson, Paul E.		621
Power struggle in Los Angeles: Mayor Villaraigosa battles the public school bureaucracy.			135
Pre-K 101: who should control a four-year-old's education--the government or parents?	Rees, Nina S.		3241
Preschool curriculum.	Weilenmann, Peter		276
Pressure cooker: teens at the top pay a price.	Ravitch, Diane		1336
Private placements.			509
Regulating software.	Millot, Marc Dean		366
Teach Like Your Hair's On Fire: The Methods and Madness Inside Room 56.			238
Teacher dispositions.			1261
Teacher preparation.	Wise, Arthur E.		287
Teacher's little helper: new technologies target teacher performance.	Petrilli, Michael J.		589
Texas hold'em: secretary Spellings--the ace in Bush's hand.	Davis, Michelle R.		2683
The Children in Room E4: American Education on Trial.			208
The confidence men: selling adequacy, making millions.	Hanushek, Eric A.		3188
The education governor: an interview with Florida governor Jeb Bush.		Interview	3446
The Lucy Calkins project: parsing a self-proclaimed literacy guru.	Feinberg, Barbara		3178
Three Rs and a v: schools should teach the importance of voting.	Glazer, Nathan		1231