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Articles in Summer, 2007 issue of Education Next

• Adequately fatigued: court rulings disappoint plaintiffs
  by Josh Dunn
• Civics exam: schools of choice boost civic values
  by Patrick J. Wolf
• Feds in the Classroom: How Big Government Corrupts, Cripples, and Compromises American Education
• Curriculum wars: ancient and modern
  by David Steiner
• Politics first, students last: a well-heeled commission issues a weak-kneed report
  by Paul E. Peterson
• The Lucy Calkins project: parsing a self-proclaimed literacy guru
  by Barbara Feinberg
• Three Rs and a v: schools should teach the importance of voting
  by Nathan Glazer
• Teacher preparation
  by Arthur E. Wise
• In low-income schools, parents want teachers who teach: in affluent schools, other things matter
  by Brian A. Jacob
• The education governor: an interview with Florida governor Jeb Bush
• Pressure cooker: teens at the top pay a price
  by Diane Ravitch
• The Children in Room E4: American Education on Trial
• Teacher dispositions
• Pre-K 101: who should control a four-year-old's education—the government or parents?
  by Stephen Goldsmith
• Preschool curriculum
  by Peter Weilenmann
• A ray of hope: politics may still save L.A. schools
  by Charles Taylor Kerchner
• Texas hold'em: secretary Spellings—the ace in Bush's hand
  by Michelle R. Davis
• The confidence men: selling adequacy, making millions
  by Eric A. Hanushek
• Teach Like Your Hair's On Fire: The Methods and Madness Inside Room 56
• Teacher's little helper: new technologies target teacher performance
  by Michael J. Petrilli
• Catholic education
  by Theodore J. Wallace
• Indianapolis mayor Bart Peterson: the Peyton Manning of charter schools
  by David Skinner
• Private placements
• Power struggle in Los Angeles: Mayor Villaraigosa battles the public school bureaucracy
• Confessions from the classroom: how do teachers know they're working hard enough?
  by Katherine Newman
• Regulating software
  by Marc Dean Millot
• A murky picture: an attempted takeover goes awry
  by Daniel Weintraub