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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