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Feature
A New Vision of School Reform
The change we need in education policy is more than a rebranding of No Child Left Behind.
Pedro Noguera
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Restoring Our Schools
Forget quick fixes. To compete internationally, we need to improve the whole system.
Linda Darling-Hammond
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Why I Changed My Mind
Bringing "choice" and "accountability" to the education system sounded good on paper, but in reality, that effort has failed.
Diane Ravitch
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Bright Ideas
Far from the media spotlight, innovation in education is going on in unexpected places.
Philissa Cramer
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Cradle to College
Community schools alter the arc of children’s lives by addressing academic and social needs.
David Kirp
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The Pull of Magnets
Despite the hype around charters, it’s magnet schools that have a real track record of success.
Susan Eaton
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Editorial
Noted.
Ed Morales on students striking in Puerto Rico, Greg Kaufmann on the right to rent, John Nichols on the real cost of war
The Editors
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Law-Free Zoning
An appeals court ruling that foreigners held at Bagram can’t challenge their detention gives the military an easy way to avoid legal review: send all detainees to Afghanistan, no matter where they’re captured.
David Cole
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A Confederacy of Foxes
The mainstream media track Fox News as if it were the Sixth Estate. Does that benefit us—or Fox?
Richard Pollak
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The Oil Catastrophe
Who bears responsibility for this environmental crisis—and how can we prevent another?
Michael T. Klare
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The Junkies of Wall Street
Derivatives regulation, a consumer financial protection agency, limits on speculative trading—will they make it into the final financial reform bill?
The Editors
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Column
Israel: Into Deeper Darkness
Border control is a fact of life for many human rights activists and political leaders. And it is a daily, humiliating reality for Palestinians and their relatives.
Alexander Cockburn
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Veil of Fears
I don’t like face-veiling either. But how does criminalizing Muslim women’s clothing make them more equal?
Katha Pollitt
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Books & the Arts
Movement and Rootedness
Ira Berlin and Steven Hahn want to counter the ways that the integrationist story of the American past casts aside alternative understandings of black history.
Nicholas Guyatt
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In With Both Feet
Like Charles Dickens’s Gradgrind, Justice Louis Brandeis wanted facts.
Michael O’Donnell
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Icons and Zombies
Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless, George A. Romero’s Survival of the Dead.
Stuart Klawans
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