The Selling of School Reform
Dana Goldstein : Youth, Education, & Children
Charter and merit pay advocates make up in lobbying what they lack in community support.

Dana Goldstein : Youth, Education, & Children
Charter and merit pay advocates make up in lobbying what they lack in community support.
Liberal living coast to coast. A look at the forthcoming Nation Guide to the Nation, with Katrina vanden Heuvel. Plus: Patty Hearst and Obama's education choice.
School reform could take on new meaning if Obama's secretary of education is actually an educator.
Demitrious Sinor : Presidential Election 2008
Will our next president have the courage to scrap No Child Left Behind?
A new generation of educators, frustrated with ineffective reforms, turns to pedagogy focused on social justice.
The life and legacy of a fiery New York teachers' advocate gets caught in the crossfire of a changing liberal landscape.
LynNell Hancock : Standardized Testing
The radical corporate overhaul of NYC public schools is draining the soul from education and reducing learning to a series of standardized tests and progress reports.
The problems and promises of Bush's education policy.
Lisa Delpit & Charles Payne : Charter Schools
The New Orleans school system, re-created in the wake of Hurricane
Katrina, is beginning to look like something designed by FEMA.
Hasdai Westbrook : Drug Policy/Drug War
Casting himself as tough on school crime as election day nears, Kentucky Republican Representative Geoff Davis is pushing a measure that puts the constitutional right of students at risk.
If President Bush and the Republican Congress would close the loopholes on tax cheats--especially the superrich--there would be ample money to improve the quality of education in the nation's public schools.
Ann Cooper, gourmet chef turned healthy school food advocate, talks about becoming a "lunch lady" and what it takes to reform our children's cafeterias.
Gary Younge : Student Movements
A new generation of student activists is flexing its muscles, rolling back employment rules in France, demanding education reform in Chile and fighting for immigrant rights in the US.
Patricia J. Princehouse : 1st Amendment
If you can lie about science and get away with it, you can lie about anything. That's why we must say no to ideological zealots who are waging war against science and against democracy itself.
Jon Wiener : Student Movements
Negative media coverage has succeeded in undermining support among prominent conservatives for a UCLA alumni group that paid students to target and expose left-leaning faculty.
Major Owens : State of the Union
Establish a first-rate education system to draw on our greatest untapped human resource: the children of our inner cities.
Jonathan Kozol : African-Americans
Apartheid education is alive in America and rapidly increasing in hyper-segregated inner-city schools. And though it's now fashionable for policy-makers to declare integration a failure, effective programs across the country still survive--and deserve to thrive.
