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forum

8 Young Einsteins
Should Head Start emphasize academic skills?
Much Too Early by DAVID ELKIND     PDF
Much Too Late by GROVER J. WHITEHURST     PDF
Head Start
The War on Poverty goes to school by TYCE PALMAFFY
More than the Three Rs
The Head Start approach to school readiness by EDWARD ZIGLER & SALLY J. STYFCO

features

22 Early Warning System     PDF
How to prevent reading disabilities by G. REID LYON & JACK M. FLETCHER

30 In Praise of Mediocrity     PDF
The Blue Ribbon Schools Program by TOM LOVELESS & PAUL DIPERNA

36 Speaking in Many Tongues     PDF
Diversity among Christian schools by DAVID SIKKINK

research

46 Raising Black Achievement
Vouchers in New York, Dayton, and D.C. by WILLIAM J. HOWELL, PATRICK J. WOLF, PAUL E. PETERSON, & DAVID E. CAMPBELL     PDF
Vouchers in Charlotte by JAY P. GREENE     PDF
A Critique by DAN GOLDHABER     PDF

67 Why Students in Some Countries Do Better     PDF
International evidence on the importance of education policyby LUDGER WOESSMAN

check the facts

75 Flunking ETS     PDF
How Teaching Matters by Harold Wenglinsky, Educational Testing Service
checked by MICHAEL PODGURSKY

79 Defrocking the National Board     PDF
The Certification System of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards
by Lloyd Bond, Richard Jaeger, Tracy Smith, & John Hattie
checked by MICHAEL PODGURSKY

from the editors

3 Getting a Head Start     PDF

correspondence

4 RAND versus Hanushek, educational McCarthyism, & more     PDF

book review

83 When Schools Compete: A Cautionary Tale     PDF
by Edward B. Fiske & Helen F. Ladd
Reviewed by JENNIFER L. HOCHSCHILD & MARK HARRISON

86 Charter Schools in Action     PDF
by Chester E. Finn Jr., Bruno V. Manno, & Gregg Vanourek
Reviewed by BRUCE FULLER

education matters to me

88 A Few Good Schools     PDF
by JERRY BROWN

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