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TABLE OF CONTENTS: MARCH 2007• Volume 88 • Number 7


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 Kappan cover On the Cover: AUTHENTIC LITERACY
It's easy to agree with Mike Schmoker that reading and writing activities cultivate "precisely those intellectual capacities most necessary to success in college and careers." How precisely we can make these activities more meaningful to students is the concern of the authors of the two articles that follow.

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FEATURES
Radically Redefining Literacy Instruction: An Immense Opportunity, by Mike Schmoker
 
Farewell to A Farewell to Arms: Deemphasizing the Whole-Class Novel, by Douglas Fisher and Gay Ivey
 
Getting Children In2Books: Engagement in Authentic Reading, Writing, and Thinking, by William H. Teale, Nina Zolt, Junko Yokota, Kathryn Glasswell, and Linda Gambrell
 
Public Education in Philadelphia: The Crucial Need for Civic Capacity in a Privatized Environment, by Suzanne Blanc and Elaine Simon
 
Errors and Allegations About Research on Homework, by Robert J. Marzano and Debra J. Pickering
 

Digging Themselves in Deeper, by Alfie Kohn
 

Casualties of Reform, by John Connors
 
Using Early Literacy Monitoring to Prevent Reading Failure, by Elizabeth A. Sloat, Joan F. Beswick, and J. Douglas Willms
 
What I Learned About Teaching at the Great Wall of China, by Gary Squire
 
Geography in American History Courses, by Stephen J. Thornton
 
Should NAEP Performance Standards Be Used for Setting Standards for State Assessments?, by James Pellegrino
 
Confronting the Achievement Gap, by David Gardner
Which Achievement Gap?, by Sharon Anderson, Elliott Medrich, and Donna Fowler
 
DEPARTMENTS
 
THE EDITOR'S PAGE, A Do-It-Yourself Club
 
WASHINGTON COMMENTARY, Looking Beyond NCLB, by Anne C. Lewis
 
STATELINE, States Seek to Leverage Assistance, by Kathy Christie
 
TECHNOLOGY, The Other Office, by Royal Van Horn
 
IN CANADA, The Caveat Emptor Index, by Heather-jane Robertson
 
RESEARCH, Test Scores and Economic Growth, by Gerald W. Bracey
 
COURTSIDE, Summery Disposition, by Perry A. Zirkel
 
WEB WATCH, Technology for Individuals with Special Needs, by Gina Patrone and Robin Pettapiece
 

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