OCTOBER 2001 * VOLUME 83 * NUMBER 2

COVER STORY
A shared level of responsiveness between teachers and students, the very opposite of command and control, will be critical to the emergence of learner-centered schools in the future, Robert Fried points out.
124 Passionate Learners and the Challenge of Schooling, by Robert L. Fried

FEATURES

A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE NRP REPORT ON FLUENCY
119 More Smoke and Mirrors: A Critique of the National Reading Panel Report on Fluency, by Stephen Krashen

ANOTHER LOOK AT SCHOOL CHOICE
Given the effort and expense it would take to get school choice right, we would do well to abandon it as a failed reform idea, the authors conclude from their study of a Colorado school district.
137 School Choice Crucible: A Case Study of Boulder Valley, by Kenneth Howe, Margaret Eisenhart, and Damian Betebenner

A SPECIAL SECTION ON DIVERSIFICATION IN EDUCATION
We must fight against any single model, structure, method, or system of education, Carl Glickman maintains. Today's bitter battles are debilitating and unnecessary, Ron Brandt adds, citing the Edmonton, Alberta, school system as a good example of a district following a more sensible course: differentiated schooling.
147 Dichotomizing Education: Why No One Wins and America Loses, by Carl D. Glickman
153 No Best Way: The Case for Differentiated Schooling, by Ron Brandt

THE 11th BRACEY REPORT
Gerald Bracey looks at our national mania for testing and where it might take us.
157 The 11th Bracey Report on the Condition of Public Education, by Gerald W. Bracey

POINTS OF VIEW
We've not had any great Presidents for some time. James Sutton's suggestions for George Bush are intended to help the new President break that pattern.
112 An Open Briefing for President Bush, by James Sutton

Iris Rotberg suggests that current accountability measures - especially high-stakes testing - may have weakened the academic standards they were intended to raise.
170 A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy, by Iris C. Rotberg

CLASSROOM PRACTICE
By pure chance, two students in the same class had downloaded and turned in the same paper from the thousands of papers available on the Internet. Steve Gardiner gives other teachers some suggestions on ways to deal with this emerging problem.
172 Cybercheating: A New Twist on an Old Problem, by Steve Gardiner

DEPARTMENTS

102 THE EDITOR'S PAGE, A New Bottle
103 WASHINGTON COMMENTARY, Time to Talk of Early Childhood, by Anne C. Lewis
105 STATELINE, Learning from the Experience of Others, by Kathy Christie
107 TECHNOLOGY, Shooting Classroom Video, by Royal Van Horn
109 WEB WATCH, A Reader Offers More Web Tools for Teaching About Globalization
110 THOUGHTS ON TEACHING, My Mother's Gravy, by Bobby Ann Starnes
175 COURTSIDE, Only Sticks and Stones?, by Perry A. Zirkel
177 BACKTALK