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Articles in Spring, 2004 issue of Education Next

• How to decentralize - Correspondence
• The gentleman's "A": new evidence that tough-grading teachers elicit better student performance - Research
  by David N. Figlio
• A kibbutz education: the collective farm was a powerful educational tool - Education Matters to Me
  by Amitai Etzioni
• A Board's eye view: the town's public schools were among the worst. Yet no one seemed to care - Feature
  by Peter Meyer
• Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation of Language and Music and Why We Should, Like, Care - Book Alert
• The inclusion mandate - Correspondence
  by Drew Allbritten
• The race connection: are teachers more effective with students who share their ethnicity? - Research
  by Thomas S. Dee
• No Child Left Behind? The Politics and Practices of School Accountability - Book Alert
• Exploring the costs of accountability: claims that the No Child Left Behind Act represents an "unfunded mandate" wilt under close scrutiny - Feature
  by James Peyser
• Just the Facts: a guide for school researchers - Book Review
  by Chester E. Finn, Jr.
• Tough love: the value of high grading standards - From The Editors
  by Martin West
• The sun sets on the West: today's social studies experts preach an anti-western ideology - Feature
  by Jonathan Burack
• Judging School Discipline: The Crisis of Moral Authority - Book Alert
• Finding good leaders - Correspondence
• The open classroom: schools without walls became all the rage during the early 1970s. Were they just another fad? - Whatever Happened to …?
  by Larry Cuban
• Civic Education: can public schools teach good citizenship? - Forum
  by Stephen Macedo
• Uncivil war: a bloodless account of a bitter battle - Book Review
  by Ralph A. Raimi
• Cheating teachers - Correspondence
  by Rod Paige
• A building need: charter schools in search of good homes - Feature
  by Kim Smith
• School of Dreams: Making the Grade at a Top American High School - Book Alert
• Civic education - Correspondence
  by Peter Levine
• Voucher research controversy: new looks at the New York City evaluation - Check the Facts
  by Paul E. Peterson
• Not getting it - Correspondence
  by Bruce E. Buxton
• Teachers unions: the good, the bad, and the ugly - Book Review
  by George Mitchell