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- The best investment we can make: better schools won't help unless young children are school-ready. That process begins at birth.(Educating America)
by McGarvey, Ayelish - While you were sleeping.(Devil in the Details)(Brief Article)
by McKelvey, Tara - Activists, eh?(Correspondence)(Letter to the Editor)
by Boasberg, Leonard - Bush's education fraud: the No Child Left Behind Act is self-defeating, confusing and underfunded. If it isn't drastically overhauled, millions more kids will be left behind.(Educating America)
by Schrag, Peter - Using fear.(Correspondence)(Letter to the Editor)
by Alterman, Michael - It's jobs, stupid.(The Last Word)
by Reich, Robert - The GOP deploys: campaign events masquerading as "official" visits. A massive army on the ground. And--wouldn't you know it--a secret headquarters. Welcome to Bush-Cheney 2004.
by Meyerson, Harold - Get onboard.(Correspondence)(Letter to the Editor)
by Gavel-Briggs, Maddie - Aiming high: how new research and model programs are reclaiming the American high school.(Educating America)
by Franke-Ruta, Garance - All eyes on Dixie: Perhaps. But Democrats on the hunt for new electoral votes should look to Ohio.
by Teixeira, Ruy - The verdict on vouchers: funded by the right and lent credence by the Harvard name, a series of studies were aimed at proving the worth of school-voucher programs. The irony? The numbers simply don't add up.(Educating America)
by Yglesias, Matthew - That was then: deficit reduction worked for Clinton, but circumstances were different in 1993. Today's Democrats mustn't think they can merely mimic him.(Dispatches)
by Stiglitz, Joseph E. - Saving black boys: the elusive promises of public education.(Educating America)
by Smith, Rosa A. - Bad Max: it's a tempting story line that Sen. Max Baucus has to cast all those pro-Bush votes because of pressure back home in Montana. It's just not true.(Dispatches)
by Yglesias, Matthew - The weakly standards: one teacher's losing fight with high-stakes, low-logic testing.(Educating America)
by Rosenfeld, Emmet - Perle's wisdom.(Devil in the Details)(Book Review)
by Blustain, Sarah - Testing our patience: standardized tests have their uses. But current federal law uses testing to destroy learning.(Educating America)
by Rothstein, Richard - Our mongrel planet.(Books)(Book Review)
by Bennett, Drake - Soft bigotry.(Devil in the Details)
by McGarvey, Ayelish - Of God and Democrats.(Correspondence)(Letter to the Editor)
by Riddell, W.H. - A national task: why high-quality public education is the democratic challenge of our time.(Educating America)
by Borosage, Robert L. - All eyes on Dixie: the South isn't all Bob Jones University, and Democrats can make inroads there.
by Phillips, Kevin P. - Robert Rubin's contested legacy.(Books)(Book Review)
- Who's nit pickler-ing?(Devil in the Details)
by Yglesias, Matthew - Tax cheaters and their enablers.(The Taxonomist)
by McIntyre, Robert S. - Brave new words.
- Blind faith.(Correspondence)(Letter to the Editor)
by Israel, Lawrence - America as a one-party state: today's hard right seeks total dominion. It's packing the courts and rigging the rules. The target is not the Democrats but democracy itself.(Cover Story)
by Kuttner, Robert - The Republican lock.(Prospects)
by Starr, Paul - We see that now: a heartfelt no--abject--no--craven apology to the right from the left for our campaign of hate, anger and malice against God's own president.(Nostra Culpa)
by Hendra, Tony - Second act: as the North Korea merry-go-round keeps turning, Congress weighs a bill to encourage mass emigration. Good idea. Here's why it won't work.(Dispatches)
by Feffer, John - He's W., not Webster.(Corespondence)(Letter to the Editor)
by Margolis, Jonathan J. - Old wine, GOP bottle.(Devil in the Details)
by Tomasky, Michael