Cover Art © 2002 by John Berry

DEPARTMENTS

422 THE EDITOR'S PAGE, Who Let the Cats Out?
423 WASHINGTON COMMENTARY, New ESEA Extends Choice to School Officials, by Anne C. Lewis
426 STATELINE, Online Assessment: Moving Beyond 'Gotcha,' by Kathy Christie
428 WEB WATCH, Learning Technologies and Teaching and Learning English
429 COURTSIDE, Harassment Full Circle?, by Perry A. Zirkel
431 RESEARCH, Raising Achievement of At-Risk Students -- or Not, by Gerald W. Bracey
481 TECHNOLOGY, Internet2 and the K20 Initiative, by Royal Van Horn
483 BACKTALK

FEBRUARY 2002 * VOLUME 83 * NUMBER 6

ON THE COVER
A SPECIAL SECTION ON PERSONALIZED INSTRUCTION
Personalized instruction is the antithesis of the current press for having all students meet the same standards, as judged by their scores on high-stakes standardized tests.

440 Personalized Instruction, by James W. Keefe and John M. Jenkins
449 Two Schools: Two Approaches to Personalized Learning, by John M. Jenkins and James W. Keefe
457 Accountability Shovedown: Resisting the Standards Movement in Early Childhood Education, by J. Amos Hatch

FEATURES

ACCOUNTABILITY
We can't beat the accountability movement, so we had better join it and try to shape it. Mary Anne Raywid suggests how to go about that task.
433 Accountability: What's Worth Measuring?, by Mary Anne Raywid

AT ODDS: SUCCESS FOR ALL
463 Success for All Is a Failure, by Stanley Pogrow
469 Mounting Evidence Supports the Achievement Effects of Success for All, by Robert E. Slavin

TECHNOLOGY
The authors share their findings from a yearlong investigation into technology use at two California high schools and measure them against the dreams of the techno-promoters.
472 Techno-Promoter Dreams, Student Realities, by Craig Peck, Larry Cuban, and Heather Kirkpatrick

CLASSROOM PRACTICE
The authors describe a professional development model that helps teachers master a variety of strategies for helping all students learn.
437 Guiding Children to Be Strategic Readers, by Donna Peterson and Carol VanDerWege