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TABLE OF CONTENTS: DECEMBER 2006• Volume 88• Number 4


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 Kappan cover ON THE COVER: The Goals of Education
If you think NCLB's focus on accountability in reading and math harks back to some golden past, Mr. Rothstein and Ms. Jacobsen have some history to share with you -- and a plan for balanced accountability.

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FEATURES
The Goals of Education, by Richard Rothstein and Rebecca Jacobsen
 
Lesson Study Comes of Age in North America, by Catherine Lewis, Rebecca Perry, Jacqueline Hurd, and Mary Pat O'Connell
 
The Evolution of a School-Based Study Group, by Rick VanDeWeghe and Kelli Varney
 
Accurately Assessing High School Graduation Rates, by Lawrence Mishel and Joydeep Roy
 
From the Inside Out: A Look at Testing Special Education Students, by Claudia Meek
 
No Child Left Behind: The Death of Special Education?, by Michael J. Wasta
 
Evidence That Smaller Schools Do Not Improve Student Achievement, by Howard Wainer and Harris L. Zwerling
 
Structured Discovery in Cane Travel: Constructivism in Action, by Matthew M. Maurer, Edward C. Bell, Eric Woods, and Roland Allen
 
Students' Learning of Inquiry in 'Inquiry' Curricula, by Jerome Pine and Pamela Aschbacher
 
Building School Partnerships with Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Families, by Michaela W. Colombo
 
The Zoo Trip: Objecting to Objectives, by Thomas S. Poetter
 
The Theory Behind the 'Recipes,' by Dorothy Rich
 
Deconstructing Teacher Certification, by Lawrence A. Baine
 
 
DEPARTMENTS
 
THE EDITOR'S PAGE, A More Expansive Set of Goals
 
WASHINGTON COMMENTARY, Dramatis Personae, by Anne C. Lewis
 
STATELINE, Looking Backward, Looking Forward, by Jennifer Dounay
 
TECHNOLOGY, Seasonal Shoppers' Guide, by Royal Van Horn
 
THOUGHTS ON TEACHING, On a Trip to Kingdom Come, by Bobby Ann Starnes
 
RESEARCH, Nobels 'R' Us, by Gerald W. Bracey
 
COURTSIDE, Collateral Liability? by Perry A. Zirkel
 
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