features

What Americans Think about Their Schools
The 2007 Education Next—PEPG Survey
By William G. Howell, Martin R. West and Paul E. Peterson

All Over the Map
Explaining educational outcomes of the Moving to Opportunity program
By Stefanie DeLuca

forum

Will NCLB Hit the Wall?

Crash Course
NCLB is driven by education politics
By Frederick M. Hess and Chester E. Finn Jr.

A Lens That Distorts
NCLB’s faulty way of measuring school quality
By Paul E. Peterson

Testing the Limits of NCLB
Implementation is not the problem
By Michael J. Petrilli

Basically a Good Model
NCLB can be fixed
By Dianne Piché

research

New Kids on the Block
Results from the Moving to Opportunity experiment
By Lisa Sanbonmatsu, Jeffrey R. Kling, Greg J. Duncan and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn

Do Districts Fund Schools Fairly?
In Texas, differences are larger within districts than between
By Marguerite Roza, Kacey Guin, Betheny Gross and Scott Deburgomaster

check the facts

The Odd Couple
Murray and Rothstein find some unexpected common ground
By Jay P. Greene

from the editors

Good News for Presidential Candidates
The public supports a wide range of education reforms
By Paul E. Peterson

correspondence

Readers Respond
Evidence-based studies; update on Los Angeles; pre-K for all; Indianapolis needs philanthropy; in defense of Accelerated Reader

legal beat

The Enforcers
Parents may gain right to sue over NCLB
By Josh Dunn and Martha Derthick

book review

What Begat the Achievement Gap?
History of Chicago schools provides few answers
By Nathan Glazer

Bum Rap
On the debate circuit with Central High
By Diane Ravitch

Book Alert

culturEd

Urban Hero
Wrong role for school teachers
By David Steiner

school life

Baby, Think It Over
Technology meets abstinence education
By Peter Meyer