forum

Who Should Lead?
Finding principals and superintendents who will transform America’s schools

Lifting the Barrier
Eliminating the state-mandated licensre of principles and superintendents is the first step in recruiting and training a generation of leaders capable of transforming America’s schools
By Frederick M. Hess

Out with the Old
University-based school administration programs are incoherent, undercapitalized, and disconnected from the districts where graduates are most likely to seek employment. There is much to be learned from the way business and the military train their leaders
By Marc Tucker

The Power to Perform
Attracting nontraditional leaders to education will require increasing their authority and compensation, conditioned on getting results

features

The Neutrality Principle
Can states prohibit vouchers for religious schooling?
By James E. Ryan

Disabling the SAT
The College Board undermines its premier test
By Miriam Kurtzig Freedman

The Near End of Bilingual Education
In the wake of California’s Prop 227
By Christine Rossell

Puzzled States
The challenges of No Child Left Behind
By Christopher J. Lucas and Gary W. Ritter

research

The Politics of No Child Left Behind
Did the need to build consensus give too much leeway to state capitols?
By Andrew Rudalevige

Tug of War
The Left, the Right, and the struggle over civic education
By James B. Murphy

check the facts

Critical Demagogues
The writings of Henry Giroux and Peter McLaren
By J. Martin Rochester

from the editors

Let’s Not Play Favorites
Religion, civic values, and public education

correspondence

Amrein and Berliner defend their study; so does the AFT
One would think that economist Michael Podgursky (“Fringe Benefits,” Check the Facts, Summer 2003) would analyze teachers’ salaries through the lens of supply and demand.

book reviews

Progressively Worse
Getting It Wrong from the Beginning: Our Progressivist Inheritance from Herbert Spencer, John Dewey, and Jean Piaget by Kieran Egan
By Lynne V. Cheney

Sensitivity Training
The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn by Diane Ravitch
By Nathan Glazer

education matters to me

Ignorance and Confidence
Keys to successful education reform?
By Kirk T. Schroder