APRIL 2004 * Volume 85 * Number 8
Cover Art: © Jem Sullivan HOW TO FIND THESE ARTICLES ONLINE DEPARTMENTS 562 THE EDITOR'S PAGE, The Human Element 563 WASHINGTON COMMENTARY, High Schools and Reform, by Anne C. Lewis 565 STATELINE, Virginia's Excellent Adventure, by Kathy Christie 628 TECHNOLOGY, Computer Applications for Young Users: BumperCar and KidPix, by Royal Van Horn 630 WEB WATCH, Copyright and Plagiarism, by Joseph Dempsey, Michael Bluman, Brian Blaszak, and Sheila Sampson 635 RESEARCH, The Trouble with Research, Part 2, by Gerald W. Bracey 637 COURTSIDE, With Liberty and Liability for All?, by Perry A. Zirkel 639 THOUGHTS ON TEACHING, Out Loud and In Public, by Bobby Ann Starnes BACKTALK, Inside Back Cover	ON THE COVER Don't be taken in by the rhetoric used to sell No Child Left Behind to Americans, Mr. Kohn warns. At the bottom, it is a deeply damaging, mostly ill-intentioned law that no one who truly cares about public schools should want anything to do with. 568 Test Today, Privatize Tomorrow: Using Accountability to 'Reform' Public Schools to Death, by Alfie Kohn FEATURES A SPECIAL SECTION ON ACCOUNTABILITY Accountability has always been a central concern of those who work in public institutions, but NCLB has intensified the pressure for results. The authors in this special section consider how public schools have responded to these new demands. 578 Responding Effectively to Test-Based Accountability, by Laura Hamilton and Brian Stecher 584 A Balanced School Accountability Model: An Alternative to High-Stakes Testing, by Ken Jones 591 High Standards + High Stakes = High Achievement in Massachusetts, by S. Paul Reville 598 Accountability with a Kicker: Observations on the Florida A+ Accountability Plan, by Dan Goldhaber and Jane Hannaway 606 Accountability, Diagnostics, and Information Technology, by Denis P. Doyle 610 Turning Accountability on Its Head: Supporting Inspired Teaching in Today's Classrooms, by Kristin L. Droege HOW SHOULD WE SEE SPECIAL EDUCATION? The authors argue that we sell students with disabilities short when we pretend that they are no different from their peers who do not have disabilities. 613 Enabling or Disabling? Observations on Changes in Special Education, by James M. Kauffman, Kathleen McGee, and Michele Brigham TEACHER EDUCATORS AND PUBLIC SCHOOLS Mr. Alexander argues for the value of having teacher educators stay in touch with the children their own students will soon be teaching. 621 A Place for Teacher Educators in the Schools, by James C. Alexander TEACHING IN A TIME OF SCARCITY 626 In the Dark, by Lorri Horn

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