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TABLE OF CONTENTS: SEPTEMBER 2007• Volume 89 • Number 1

 

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On the Cover: LETTERS TO A YOUNG TEACHER
National Book Award-winning author Jonathan Kozol lets Kappan readers peer over his shoulder as he corresponds with "Francesca," a young teacher whose classroom he frequently visits.

Cover: Liquid Library


FEATURES
Letters to a Young Teacher, by Jonathan Kozol
 
The Case for Educational Entrepreneurship: Hard Truths About Risk, Reform, and Reinvention, by Frederick M. Hess
 
Improper Diagnosis, Reckless Treatment, by Lawrence Mishel and Richard Rothstein
 
Reckless and Wildly Exaggerated? We Don't Think So: A Response to Mishel and Rothstein, by Marc Tucker
 
The 39TH Annual Phi Delta Kappa/Gallup Poll of the Public's Attitudes Toward the Public Schools, by Lowell C. Rose and Alec M. Gallup

 
 Homework Inoculation and the Limits of Research, by Bruce Jackson
 
Blogging to Improve Instruction in Differentiated Science Classrooms, by Michaela W. Colombo and Paul D. Colombo
 
Recruiting Expert Teachers into Hard-to-Staff Schools, by Audrey Amrein-Beardsley
 
A Day at Osborne School, by Denise Sarra and Lynn Olcott
 
 Vonnegut Warned Us, by Clare Fugate
 
DEPARTMENTS
 
GUEST EDITORIAL, The Sad Saga of NCLB, by Lowell C. Rose
 
WASHINGTON COMMENTARY, Choices: Rational or Otherwise?, by Anne C. Lewis
 
STATELINE, A Diversity of Voices for a Balanced Debate, by Kathy Christie
 
TECHNOLOGY, Educational Games, by Royal Van Horn
 
 IN CANADA, Schools, Poverty, and the Achievement Gap, by Ben Levin
 
RESEARCH, Skills for the Future, by Gerald W. Bracey
 
COURTSIDE, Hitting a Miss?, by Perry A. Zirkel
 

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