forum

Do We Need to Repair the Monument?
Debating the future of No Child Left Behind
By John E. Chubb, Robert Linn, Kati Haycock and Ross Wiener

features

Good? Bad? or None of the Above?
The unavoidable mandate to teach character
By William Damon

An A-Maze-ing Approach To Math
A mathematician with child learns some politics
By Barry Garelick

Uncivil Disobedience
Violating the rules for breaking the law
By James J. Lopach and Jean A. Luckowski

whatever happened to...

Magnet Schools
No longer famous, but still intact
By Christine Rossell

research

Wage Distortion
Why America’s top women college graduates aren’t teaching
By Caroline M. Hoxby and Andrew Leigh

Incentives to Learn
Merit scholarships that pay kids to do well
By Michael Kremer , Edward Miguel and Rebecca Thornton

check the facts

Mind over Matter
A popular pediatrician stretches a synapse or two
By Daniel T. Willingham

from the editors

The Children Left Behind
NCLB is a Giant Step Forward—but a Mid-course Correction is Needed
By Paul E. Peterson

correspondence

Correspondence
Tough Love at the Hyde Schools

book reviews

School Reform Economics
Inequality in America: What Role for Human Capital Policies? by JAMES J. HECKMAN AND ALAN B. KRUEGER, EDITED by BENJAMIN M. FRIEDMAN
By Martin R. West

Subordinate Clauses without Any Pauses
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by LYNNE TRUSS The War Against Grammar by DAVID MULROY
By Diane Ravitch

A Method to His Mastery
Leave No Child Behind: Preparing Today’s Youth for Tomorrow’s World By James P. Comer, M.D. Foreword by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
By Nathan Glazer

BOOK ALERT
A Well-Tempered Mind: Using Music to Help Children Listen and Learn, by Peter Perret Janet; Within Our Reach: How America Can Educate Every Child. A Report and Recommendations by the Koret Task Force on K–12 Education; Educating Citizens: International Perspectives on Civic Values and School Choice, edited by Patrick J. Wolf and Stephen Macedo, with David J. Ferrero and Charles Venegoni; Dropouts in America: Confronting the Graduation Rate Crisis, edited by Gary Orfield...

school life

A Story of Two Children
Why Can’t Our Schools Acknowledge Them?
By Bryan C. Hassel and Emily Ayscue Hassel