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TABLE OF CONTENTS: DECEMBER 2007• Volume 89 • Number 4

 

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Featured Podcast(Coming Mid-December): An Interview with Rona Wilensky
E-mail your questions by December 10 to eyoung@pdkintl.org

On the Cover: FIX COLLEGES FIRST?
To create an education system that truly meets the learning needs of all our students, Ms. Wilensky argues, we need to start with reforming higher education.

Cover photo: Liquid Library


FEATURES
High Schools Have Got It Bad For Higher Ed -- and That Ain't Good, by Rona Wilensky
 
Built to Teach: What Your Alma Mater Could Learn from Cascadia Community College, by Kevin Carey
 
The Nea Supports Substantial Overhaul, Not Repeal, of NCLB, by Joel Packer
 
Make Room at the Table for Teachers, by Susan Ohanian and Philip Kovacs
 
NCLB Overhaul, by Joel Packer

 
A Sane Island, Surrounded, by Jack Roberts
 
An Athletic Arms Race, by Gene A. Budig
 
 The Return of Civic Education, by Donovan R. Walling
 
Let's Have a Famine! Connecting Means and Ends in Teaching to Big Ideas, by Selma Wassermann
 
The Road Less Traveled, by Brent Mckim
 
Is Your School Librarian 'Highly Qualified'?, by Allison G. Kaplan
 
The Potential of 'Alternative' Charter School Authorizers, by Louann Bierlein Palmer
 

 Learning as a Subversive Activity, by J. Amos Hatch
 

DEPARTMENTS
 
THE EDITOR'S PAGE, Ready or Not!
 
WASHINGTON COMMENTARY, Do the Right Thing, by Anne C. Lewis
 
STATELINE, Wrap-Up: Tackling the Big Goals, by Kathy Christie
 
TECHNOLOGY, Gift-Giving Ideas, by Royal Van Horn
 
 THOUGHTS ON TEACHING: Twisted NCLB or Twisting NCLB?, by Bobby Ann Starnes
 
RESEARCH: The Proficiency Illusion, by Gerald W. Bracey
 
COURTSIDE, Much Ado About a C?, by Perry A. Zirkel
 
WEB WATCH: 21st-Century Tools, by Sean Connors and Barb Dominesey
 
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