The Broken Hearth: Reversing the Moral Collapse of the American Family
Chester E. Finn, Jr.William J. Bennett, 2001
Assessing the Best: NAEP's 1996 Assessment of Twelfth-Graders Taking Advanced Science Courses
Chester E. Finn, Jr.National Center for Education Statistics, August 2001
Understanding Dropouts: Statistics, Strategies, and High-Stakes Testing
Kelly ScottCommittee on Educational Excellence and Testing Equity, National Research Council, 2001
Teaching history in a time of terrorism
Diane RavitchSome educators have reacted to the mass murders in New York City and Washington, D.C. by calling for changes in the curriculum. Their immediate response to September 11 was that "we have to change the curriculum to make our students more tolerant," as if our students were the perpetrators of these heinous crimes.
Patriotism revisited
Chester E. Finn, Jr.Leo Casey must be beside himself. Just a few miles from his office at the United Federation of Teachers on lower Park Avenue, The New York Times was publishing an article about surges of patriotism in American classrooms (Kevin Sack, "School Colors Become Red, White and Blue," 9/28/01).
Impostor teacher gains National Board certification
A Mississippi fourth-grade teacher used a series of phony identities to gain a teaching license, buy a car, and attain national board certification, according to authorities in Mississippi.
New research on merit pay
The London-based Centre for the Economics of Education held a conference on teacher pay and incentives last week and several new research papers are available from the conference website. "Paying Teachers for Performance: Incentives and Selection," by Edward Lazear of Stanford University explores arguments about the effect of incentives on teacher behavior, discusses different ways of def
National credential for teachers who master their subjects and help students learn
The National Council on Teacher Quality and the Education Leaders Council have teamed up to launch a new project which will offer credentials to expert teachers and able would-be teachers. The American Board for Certification of Teacher Excellence will award a beginning teacher credential to highly skilled individuals just entering teaching who have mastered an academic subject and can de
A liberal case for vouchers
A long essay in this week's New Republic reviewing Terry Moe's new book, Schools, Vouchers and the American Public, Diane Ravitch explains why liberals should be pro-choice.
What management research teaches about mentoring and promotions
The key to an effective mentoring program is matching up mentors and prot??g??s well and providing structure, rather than just putting a mentor and prot??g??
What the Research Reveals About Charter Schools
Chester E. Finn, Jr.The Center for Education Reform has issued a listing of 65 studies of charter schools, together with brief summaries of each. It's not comprehensive.