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TABLE OF CONTENTS: OCTOBER 2007• Volume 89 • Number 2

 

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October Featured Podcast: An Interview with Alfie Kohn

On the Cover: CHEATING
Most discussions of cheating attribute the problem to a moral failure on the part of the cheater. Mr. Kohn wonders why we rarely consider environmental factors that might have played a role in prompting the behavior.

Cover: Brand X Photos


FEATURES
Who’s Cheating Whom?, by Alfie Kohn
 
 Learning from the World: Achieving More by Doing Less, by Lawrence Baines
 
Are International Tests Worth Anything?, by Keith Baker
 
Dynamic Inequality and Intervention: Lessons from a Small Country, by W. Norton Grubb
 
Educational Trends in China and the United States: Proverbial Pendulum or Potential for Balance?, by Betty Preus

 
 The First Time 'Everything Changed': The 17th Bracey Report on the Condition of Public Education, by Gerald W. Bracey
 
Do States Have the Capacity to Meet the NCLB MandateS?, by Gail L. Sunderman and Gary Orfield
 
Formative Assessment: What Do Teachers Need to Know and Do?, by Margaret Heritage
 
Instructional Insensitivity of Tests: Accountability's Dire Drawback, by W. James Popham
 
 Bridges, Tunnels, and School Reform: It’s the System, Stupid, by Thomas F. Kelly
 
DEPARTMENTS
 
THE EDITOR'S PAGE, The Beep Heard Round the World
 
WASHINGTON COMMENTARY, Language Learning and National Security, by Anne C. Lewis
 
STATELINE, Minding Our Measures, by Kathy Christie
 
TECHNOLOGY, Online Books and Audiobooks, by Royal Van Horn
 
THOUGHTS ON TEACHING, Confessions of a Wonk, by Bobby Ann Starnes
 
COURTSIDE, Bong Hits?, by Perry A. Zirkel
 
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