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Articles in Spring, 2003 issue of Education Next

• The long haul: it will take prolonged effort and more than just school reforms to boos student achievement - Forum
  by Patricia Albjerg Graham
• The erosion continues: an education system soaked in mediocrity - From the Editors - Koret Task Force report - Editorial
• The reforms for whom? The most successful of the changes proposed by A Nation at Risk were those that enjoyed backing from powerful interest groups in education - Feature
  by Caroline M. Hoxby
• Our schools our future are we still at risk? - Forum
  by John E. Chubb
• High hurdles: in the realm of teaching, A Nation at Risk's recommendations lost out to a regulation-driven quest for teacher professionalism. Now the pendulum is beginning to swing toward market-based solutions - Feature
  by Chester E. Finn
• Ticket to nowhere: in the wake of A Nation at Risk, educators pledged to focus anew on student achievement. Two decades later, little progress has been made - Feature
  by Paul E. Peterson
• Greek lessons: discovering the elements of ancient education. . - book review - Gymnastics of the Mind: Greek Education in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt
  by Mary Lefkowitz
• Correspondence - Letter to the Editor
• Reform blockers: the American political system advantages those who prefer the status quo, which is why so little has changed in American education - Feature
  by Terry M. Moe
• Honest Abe: Lincoln taught himself the three R's—and more - Education Matters to me
  by William Lee Miller
• The test of time: A Nation at Risk was an historic document—for its time. Now we know that while its findings were dead on, its reform agenda relied too much on the existing system - Feature
  by Diane Ravitch
• Lost opportunity: increased economic growth, fueled by improvements in student performance, might have funded the nation's entire K-12 education budget by now - Feature
  by Eric A. Hanushek
• Ninth Emerson Prizes to be awards in Memphis - Brief Article
• The chasm remains: A Nation at Risk failed to address the unique problems of urban schools and minority children, whose test scores continue to lag behind those of whites - Feature
  by Paul T. Hill
• Leftover business: that the nation is still debating—and has yet to address—many of the issues raised by A Nation at Risk is a testament to its prescience - Forum
  by Milton Goldberg
• Not so grand a strategy: A National at Risk emphasized the importance of learning so-called "higher-order skills" in the early grades. But even chess grand masters need to learn the basics first - Feature
  by E. D. Hirsch, Jr.
• Help wanted: choice, accountability, and transparency will mean little without a new generation of school-based leaders to light the way - Forum
  by Lisa Graham Keegan
• Ignoring the market: A Nation at Risk virtually overlooked school choice, education's most promising reform strategy - Feature
  by John E. Chubb
• The least common denominator: the effort to push underprepared students into academic courses has driven the rigor out of many textbooks and classrooms - Feature
  by Williamson M. Evers
• Unrecognized progress: today's schools are undeniably better than the schools of 1983, and a trio of recent reforms is making them even better
  by James B. Hunt, Jr.
• Accountability unplugged: the nation doesn't yet know whether accountability-based reforms will work, because they have barely been tried - Feature
  by Herbert J. Walberg