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Commentary
1.2.2002

The high schools left behind by choice in Chicago

In Chicago, 55 percent of public high school students attend schools outside their neighborhoods.  The mobile students are often the better students, who can today apply to a growing array of magnet schools and programs throughout the school district.  A series of articles in last month's Catalyst take a close look at the schools left behind.  The 12 least popular neighbor

Commentary
1.2.2002

Multiculturalism and assimiliationism after September 11

Will the new feeling of national unity in the aftermath of terrorist attacks set the stage for a turn away from multicultural education, which de-emphasizes the common American culture and teaches children to take pride in their own racial ethnic and national origins instead?

Commentary
1.2.2002

New bill puts value-added analysis in the spotlight

While the costs and benefits of annual tests were debated at great length last year, analysts of the new "No Child Left Behind" education legislation are getting more excited about an opportunity created by those tests: the ability to identify effective schools and teachers using annual test scores.  In a 9-page paper for the Lexington Institute, Robert Holland explains how statistical ana

Commentary
1.2.2002

Why is Education So Hard to Reform?

Chester E. Finn, Jr.

Welcome to 2002. Allow me to open it by recalling nine great obstacles to serious education reform in America - and the (mostly obvious) changes we must make to break through them. You may, if you like, regard the latter as New Year's resolutions.We know more about the quality of our dishwashers than the quality of our children's schools.