forum

An Education Mayor Takes Charge
The Picture in New York

A Negative Assessment
An Education Revolution That Never Was
By Sol Stern

On the Positive Side
Bloomberg and Klein Seek to Repair a Failure Factory
By Joe Williams

features

Private Schools for the Poor
Education where no one expects it
By James Tooley

The New Philanthropists
Can their millions enhance learning?
By Richard Colvin

Making Up the Rules as You Play the Game
A conflict of interest at the very heart of NCLB
By Paul E. Peterson

research

The Truths about Charter Schools
New Research from Chicago and North Carolina

Findings from the City of Big Shoulders
Younger Students Learn More in Charter Schools
By Caroline M. Hoxby and Jonah E. Rockoff

Results from the Tar Heel State
Older Students Did Better When in Regular Public Schools
By Robert Bifulco and Helen F. Ladd

check the facts

Pseudo-Science and a Sound Basic Education
Voodoo Statistics in New York
By Eric Hanushek

the legal beat

NEA Sues over NCLB
The bucks are big, but the case is weak
By John R. Munich and Rocco E. Testani

from the editors

Looking in the Wrong Place
MARCI KANSTOROOM
By Marci Kanstoroom

A Tribute to John Walton

correspondence

Getting the Right Principals
Educating principals; unflagging the SATs; charter schools; more Mel Levine; the inequity of adequacy

book reviews

God: Another Four-Letter Word?
Does God Belong in Public Schools? by KENT GREENAWALT Between Memory and Vision: The Case for Faith-Based Schooling by STEVEN C. VRYHOF
By Nathan Glazer

The Scream! Does Children’s Literature Have to Be Scary?
Welcome to Lizard Motel: Children, Stories, and the Mystery of Making Things Up by BARBARA FEINBERG
By Diane Ravitch

Book Alert

school life

Broken on the Court
When the All-Boy Band Visited the All-Girl School
By Ian Earle