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forum
Technology in Education
Will it be more than just a promise?
The Human Touch
In the rush to place a computer on every desk, schools are neglecting intellectual creativity and personal growth
By Lowell Monke
Technical Difficulties
Information technology could help schools do more with less. If only educators knew how to use it
By Frederick M. Hess
features
A Stranger in Two Worlds
Moving from segregated to integrated schools proved to be a mixed blessing
By Warren Simmons
The Struggle Continues
Brown v. Board of Education ended legally sanctioned segregation, but the decision’s promise awaits fulfillment
By Howard Fuller
Selling Supplemental Services
Can school districts serve as both regulators and providers?
By Siobhan Gorman
Netting an Elusive Breed
How to attract and retain better teachers
By Mark R. Warner
How Vouchers Came to D.C.
The inside story
By Spencer S. Hsu
Will Vouchers Arrive in Colorado?
The courts intervene
By Lance D. Fusarelli
research
School Inflation
Did the 20th-century growth in school size improve education?
By Christopher Berry
Falling Behind
New evidence on the black-white achievement gap
By Steven D. Levitt and Roland G. Fryer
whatever happened to...
The Detracking Movement
Why children are still grouped by ability
By Maureen T. Hallinan
from the editors
The Brown Irony
Racial progress eventually came to pass—everywhere but in public schools
By Paul E. Peterson
correspondence
NCLB in Worcester; multiple intelligences
How many intelligences?
book reviews
Selective Memory
Family Circle: The Boudins and the Aristocracy of the Left
By Susan Braudy
By Diane Ravitch
The Newest Americans
Who Are We? The Challenges to America’s National Identity
By Samuel P. Huntington
By Nathan Glazer
Book Alert
Battling Corruption in America’s Public Schools; After Brown: The Rise and Retreat of School Desegregation; Schools on Probation: How Accountability Works (and Doesn’t Work); School Choice and the Question of Accountability: The Milwaukee Experience
school life
The Days Before Brown
Growing up in segregated schools
By Leonard A. Slade Jr.
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