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What No Child Left Behind left behind
The biggest upward ratchet ever in the federal government's role in public education--historically a state and local function--and possibly the...
Washington Monthly, 08/01/08 by Nicholas Lemann · More from publication -
REMEMBER THE ALAMO
Nicholas Lemann talks about the real George W. Bush Hendrik Hertzberg reviews the Vice-Presidential debate Philip Gourevitch on following...
New Yorker, The, 10/18/04 by Nicholas Lemann · More from publication -
DANGERS PRESENT
With a trumpet blare of martial rhetoric, the Committee on the Present Danger has reconstituted itself again. The original Committee, founded in...
New Yorker, The, 08/23/04 by Nicholas Lemann · More from publication -
BUFFALO TIM
Father's Day has always been a difficult time for me. It isn't that I don't have a father; rather, it's that, every year at about this time, from...
New Yorker, The, 05/24/04 by Nicholas Lemann · More from publication -
Liberal education & professionals
BACK IN 1722, when Benjamin Franklin was a somewhat naughty young man still living in Boston, Franklin wrote a series of satirical letters to the...
Liberal Education, 03/22/04 by Nicholas Lemann · More from publication -
Long good buy
A CONSUMERS' REPUBLIC The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America by Lizabeth Cohen Alfred A. Knopf, $35.00 A CONSUMERS' REPUBLIC The...
Washington Monthly, 01/01/03 by Nicholas Lemann · More from publication -
The Strange Death of American Liberalism. . - Political Booknotes: left for dead - book review
THE STRANGE DEATH OF AMERICAN LIBERALISM THE STRANGE DEATH OF AMERICAN LIBERALISM by H.W. Brands Yale University Press, $22.50 IT WOULDN'T BE...
Washington Monthly, 12/01/01 by Nicholas Lemann · More from publication -
The Price of Citizenship: Redefiningthe American Welfare State - Brief Article
THE BULK OF MICHAEL KATZ'S The Price of Citizenship is taken up by a long compendium of all the ways in which the American welfare state has...
Washington Monthly, 06/01/01 by Nicholas Lemann · More from publication -
Don't Let Scandal Scuttle Standards
Like love and marriage, standards and tests go together. Tests can determine the strengths and weaknesses of individual students. They are a...
Newsweek, 06/19/00 by Nicholas Lemann (Lemann, a staff writer for The New Yorker, is the author of "The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy.") · More from publication -
A NECESSARY EVIL: A History of American Distrust of Government. - Review - book reviews
A NECESSARY EVIL: A History of American Distrust of Government By Garry Wills Simon & Schuster, $25 A NECESSARY EVIL: A History of American...
Washington Monthly, 10/01/99 by Nicholas Lemann · More from publication
