Art: Eyewire Collection

DEPARTMENTS

566 THE EDITOR'S PAGE, Interest Matters

567 WASHINGTON COMMENTARY, Don't Eat the Seed Corn, by Anne C. Lewis

570 STATELINE, State Leadership: Is the New ESEA the Chicken or the Egg?, by Kathy Christie

572 COURTSIDE, Irresponsible Conduct?, by Perry A. Zirkel

574 THOUGHTS ON TEACHING, On the Importance of Never Making It to Mars, by Bobby Ann Starnes

640 TECHNOLOGY, Website Metrics, by Royal Van Horn

642 RESEARCH, Tips for Readers of Research: Beware the 'Classic Study,' by Gerald W. Bracey

644 BACKTALK

APRIL 2002 * VOLUME 83 * NUMBER 8

ON THE COVER
PLACE-BASED EDUCATION
One of the primary strengths of place-based education, Gregory Smith points out, is that it can help overcome the disjuncture between school and children's lives that is found in too many classrooms.

584 Place-Based Education: Learning to Be Where We Are, by Gregory A. Smith

FEATURES

A VISION OF EDUCATION
We know that there's a better way to school the young. Elliot Eisner shares with readers his conception of what good schools provide and what students and teachers do in them.

576 The Kind of Schools We Need, by Elliot W. Eisner

HIGH-STAKES TESTING
Schools like the Boston Arts Academy are desperately trying to keep the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System from destroying their very fabric, headmaster Linda Nathan reports.

595 The Human Face of the High-Stakes Testing Story, by Linda Nathan

Olaf Jorgenson and Rick Vanosdall raise an important question: Will standardized testing snuff out the promise of inquiry-based methods for American science education?

601 The Death of Science? What We Risk in Our Rush Toward Standardized Testing and the Three R's, by Olaf Jorgenson and Rick Vanosdall

MATHEMATICS EDUCATION

606 Dear Verity, Now I'm Getting into Shape!, by Deirdre Dempsey and John Marshall

STANDARDS-BASED REFORMS
Standards can support better learning if they are used correctly. Beverly Falk provides some examples.

612 Standards-Based Reforms: Problems and Possibilities, by Beverly Falk

COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY

621 The Future of Computer Technology in K-12 Education, by Frederick Bennett

SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT
Implementing school improvement initiatives can bring new demands, requirements, and costs that schools do not always have the capacity to meet, Thomas Hatch points out.

626 When Improvement Programs Collide, by Thomas Hatch