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Commentary
10.2.2002

Is the principal the key to a school's success?

Reporter Joshua Benton describes how principal Nancy Hambrick turned around a failing middle school in Texas in "Principal demands perfection, gets it," The Dallas Morning News, September 29, 2002. But it can work the other way, too.

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10.2.2002

More in the battle over who is qualified to teach

While Education Secretary Rod Paige and the National Commission for Teaching and America's Future battle over whether traditional teacher education and state certification guarantee teacher quality, Martin Haberman contends that both sides are missing the point.

Commentary
10.2.2002

More seek disability label to gain extra time on SAT

Educational psychologists report a big increase in demand by middle class parents for diagnoses that will allow their teenage sons and daughters to receive extra time to take the SAT, particularly in well-off communities, now that the College Board is no longer "flagging" the scores of students who take the test under special conditions.

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10.2.2002

A school that helps learning disabled kids soar

While most special ed experts believe that including learning disabled children in regular classrooms is ideal, try telling that to parents whose kids attend the Lab School in Washington, DC. Each year, 400 applicants vie for 40 spots at this privately operated school, where all 310 students suffer from moderate to severe learning disabilities.

Commentary
10.2.2002

Not needed: two million new teachers

Michael Podgursky

In a recent meeting with reporters in Detroit, Education Secretary Rod Paige spoke heresy to the education establishment. He asserted that the "teacher shortage" is "contrived" and that many individuals who would make good teachers are shut out by the current system. He's right.For more than a decade, educational Cassandras have been warning that the U.S.

Commentary
10.2.2002

On the spirit of patriotism

I am writing in response to Chester Finn's unfair characterization of the article "On the Spirit of Patriotism" written by Michalinos Zembylas and Megan Boler and published in the Teachers College Record (TCR) online edition. [See http://www.edexcellence.net/gadfly/issue.cfm?issue=44#642 for Finn's editorial.

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10.2.2002

When charities run charter schools

This week's Chronicle of Philanthropy features a trio of articles by Meg Sommerfeld on charter schools. "Nonprofit Lesson Plans" looks at charters launched by charities such as the YMCA, and some of the rewards and challenges for those schools and charities.

Commentary
10.2.2002

The Future of School Facilities

Chester E. Finn, Jr.

Michael DeArmond, Sara Taggart and Paul Hill, Center on Reinventing Public Education, University of WashingtonMay 2002

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10.2.2002

Our Documents

Michael Jordan

National Archives and the National History DaySeptember 2002

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10.2.2002

The New Schools Handbook

Chester E. Finn, Jr.

Robin Lake, Abigail Winger and Jeff Petty, Center on Reinventing Public Education, University of WashingtonMay 2002

Commentary
9.25.2002

Businesses send a message to schools: shape up or we'll ship out

Some businesses and corporate foundations are limiting or withdrawing their funding of public education after seeing little improvement as a result of their support. Companies complain that education's bureaucracy, internal squabbling and foot-dragging prevent corporate dollars from reaching and impacting students and classrooms.

Commentary
9.25.2002

Demanding data from private schools

Private schools are increasingly feeling the heat to release data about their students' achievement, acceptances into college, and other vital performance statistics, though some contend that these schools need only be accountable to parents, not to the general public.

Commentary
9.25.2002

Study of NBPTS certification also scrutinized by a panel of experts

Even more big guns were brought out by the Education Commission of the States (ECS) to evaluate a small study that examined the effectiveness of teachers certified by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) in Tennessee. That study (actually a 4-page brief followed by 4 pages of data), by J.E.

Commentary
9.25.2002

Learning from critics of high-stakes testing

Jay Mathews of The Washington Post is generally a fan of standards and tests, but in a recent column in Washingtonpost.com he praises Deborah Meier's newest anti-testing book, In Schools We Trust: Creating Communities of Learning in an Era of Testing and Standardization.

Commentary
9.25.2002

Attention focused on students who have not passed MCAS

In Massachusetts, 81 percent of the class of 2003 has already passed the state's high-stakes MCAS test and is scheduled to graduate next spring, but the 19 percent of students who have not yet passed it are now the subject of a federal lawsuit.

Commentary
9.25.2002

Ed schools are running scared

Did you ever wonder how they think about politics, policy and the future of teacher education at the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education (AACTE), principal trade association of the ed schools? See for yourself by surfing to http://www2.gasou.edu/coe/july.htm ("Contextual Scan -- July 2002").