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Commentary
5.8.2002

High school seniors still know little U.S. history

The U.S. Department of Education released the results of the 2001 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) in history today, and while the scores of fourth and eighth graders have modestly improved since 1994, the scores of twelfth graders were frustratingly low and showed no improvement.

Commentary
5.8.2002

The myth of the special ed burden

Jay P. Greene

The debate swirling around renewal of the major federal law addressing special education, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), draws much of its energy from a widely shared but probably false premise: that schools are increasingly swamped with disabled children who are diverting scarce resources away from other students.

Commentary
5.8.2002

Do we really need school boards?

Why have school boards at all? asked Washington Post editorial page editor Fred Hiatt in a provocative op-ed this week. We don't elect our city police chief or our county health commissioner, yet nobody sees this as a denial of democracy. Why not let our elected mayors and city or county councils-the people who make the budgets-take similar responsibility for public schools?

Commentary
5.1.2002

MegaSkills

Katherine Somerville

And now for something completely different, not a book or report but a website. Surf to the MegaSkills website to learn about this education training program, developed in 1972 by Dorothy Rich, a champion of parental involvement in education and founder and president of the Home and School Institute.

Commentary
5.1.2002

Choice with Equity

Chester E. Finn, Jr.

Another new Koret Task Force volume from Hoover, this one is edited by Paul Hill, runs 222 pages and, in seven chapters, closely examines the issue of children alleged to be "left behind" by school-choice programs.

Commentary
5.1.2002

School Accountability

Chester E. Finn, Jr.

edited by Williamson Evers and Herbert Walberg2002

Commentary
5.1.2002

Toward smarter education philanthropy

Chester E. Finn, Jr.

The New York Times is gaga once again over America's "new philanthropists" and the giant "wealth transfer" that is said to be transforming American philanthropy.

Commentary
5.1.2002

States and feds move to implement new testing requirements

As federal officials gear up to implement the No Child Left Behind Act, state policymakers are all over the map in their plans for addressing the requirements of that complex new law. In Vermont, Governor Howard Dean said he will ask state officials to consider rejecting federal education funds to avoid having to meet the new federal testing requirements.

Report
5.1.2002
Governance

Thomas B. Fordham Foundation: Five Year Report

Chester E. Finn, Jr., Kathryn Mullen Upton

The Thomas B. Fordham Foundation's first-ever Five-Year Report reviews our major education reform activities, products and expenditures, both in the national reform arena and in Dayton, from 1997 through 2001 and sums up the work of the Foundation from its rebirth in the mid-1990s until today. In the report, we endeavor to show what we think we've accomplished, where our efforts have fallen short, and what we've learned.

Commentary
4.24.2002

Test protests thinning out in Massachusetts

Opponents of high-stakes testing in Massachusetts are running out of time to convince a public that has largely accepted testing and academic standards, according to reporter Ed Hayward of the Boston Herald.