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Articles in Fall, 2003 issue of Education Next

• Out with the old: university-based school administration programs are incoherent, undercapitalized, and disconnected from the districts where graduates are most likely to seek employment. There is much to be learned from the way business and the military
  by Marc Tucker
• Sensitivity training: history and literature, heavily edited - The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn - Book Review
  by Nathan Glazer
• Vox pupils - correspondence - Letter to the Editor
  by Ganesh Sitaraman
• The politics of No Child Left Behind: lessons from the Clinton years taught Washingtonians that dollars need to be tied to gains in student performance. But did the need to build consensus give too much leeway to state capitols? - research
  by Andrew Rudalevige
• Lifting the barrier: eliminating the state-mandated licensure of principals and superintendents is the first step in recruiting and training a generation of leaders capable of transforming America's schools - forum
  by Frederick M. Hess
• Progressively worse: the pantheon of misguided educational philosophers grows - Getting it Wrong from the Beginning: Our Progressivist Inheritance from Herbert Spencer, John Dewey, and Jean Piaget - Book Review
  by Lynne V. Cheney
• Too soon to tell - correspondence - Letter to the Editor
  by Nina Shokraii Rees
• Puzzled states: the success of the No Child Left Behind Act largely depends on the states' willingness and ability to implement the law. Will Washington grant them a hearing? - feature
  by Gary W. Ritter
• Central planning - correspondence - Letter to the Editor
  by Tom Shuford
• Tug of war: the Right wants schools to inculcate civic values. So does the Left. Which is why the public schools should avoid civic education altogether
  by James B. Murphy
• Let's not play favorites: religion, civic values, and public education - from the editors - Editorial
• The power to perform: attracting nontraditional leaders to education will require increasing their authority and compensation, conditioned on getting results - forum
  by Thomas B. Fordham
• The Global Education Industry - Books from the IEA - Lessons from Private Education in Developing Countries, Second Edition - Brief Article - Book Review
• Does accountability work? - correspondence
  by Audrey Amrein
• The near end of bilingual: Prop 227 was supposed to eliminate bilingual education from California's schools. For the most part, it succeeded—and student performance is climbing slowly upward - feature
  by Christine H. Rossell
• Ignorance and confidence: keys to successful education reform? - education matters to me
  by Kirk T. Schroder
• Correction - Correction Notice
• Critical demagogues: what happens when ideology and teaching mix - check the facts
  by J. Martin Rochester
• Getting paid - correspondence - Letter to the Editor
• The neutrality principle: the Supreme Court will soon reconsider Washington State's revoking of Joshua Davey's college scholarship after he decided to major in theology. Will its decision render the Blaine amendments, provisions of state constitutions tha
  by James E. Ryan
• HIV and Aids in Schools - Books from the IEA - Brief Article - Book Review
• Second career - correspondence - Letter to the Editor
  by Clark Neily
• Disabling the SAT: how the College Board is undermining its premier test - feature
  by Miriam Kurtzig Freedman
• Buckingham at 25 - Books from the IEA - Brief Article - Book Review