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Articles in Summer, 2002 issue of Education Next

• Swing state: the downs and ups of accountability in California. Will the state's political leadership stay the course this time around?
  by Michael W. Kirst
• The business model: value-added analysis is a crucial tool in the accountability toolbox—despite its flaws
  by Jay P. Greene
• Surface wounds: thus far, public schools have hardly noticed competition
  by Edward B. Fiske
• Bipartisan choolmates: President Bush deserves credit for forging a consensus on federal education policy. But it will all be for naught if the law is not enforced
  by Siobhan Gorman
• Expert measures
  by Anita A. Summers
• Data vacuum: only larger voucher experiments will yield answers
  by William G. Howell
• Enemy of the good: no standardized test is perfect. But they're useful nonetheless
  by Donald R. McAdams
• In the shadow of terror: life returns to not quite normal at Stuyvesant High
  by Laura Krug
• Vouchers on trail: will the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Zelman end the voucher debate?
  by Joseph P. Viteritti
• Correspondence
• Monster hype: how a few isolated tragedies-and their supposed causes-were turned into a national "epidemic"
  by Joel Best
• Sizing up test scores
  by Dale Ballou
• Waiting for utopia: the New York Times education columnist believes in education reform. He just doesn't think it has much to do with schools
  by David W. Murray
• Two steps forward? 2002, a year full of promise in education reform
• The power of peers: how does the makeup of a classroom influence achievement?
  by Caroline M. Hoxby
• Unrequited promise: tracing the evolution of New American Schools, from feisty upstart to bulwark of the education establishment
  by Jeffrey Mirel