Phi Delta
September 1997 · Volume 79 · Number 1
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Phi Delta
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FEATURES
8 Foolishness, Dangerous Nonsense, and Real Correlates
of State Differences in Achievement, by Bruce J. Biddle
14 Understanding and Improving Classroom Mathematics
Instruction: An Overview of the TIMSS Video Study, by James W. Stigler
and James Hiebert
22 Policy Perils of International Comparisons: The TIMSS Case, by J.
Myron Atkin and Paul Black
30 Becoming 'First in the World' in Math and Science: Moving High Expectations
and Promising Practices to Scale, by Mark Hawkes, Paul Kimmelman, and
David Kroeze
34 Transforming Student Assessment, by D. Monty Neill
41 The 29th Annual Phi Delta Kappa/Gallup Poll of
the Public's Attitudes Toward the Public Schools, by Lowell C. Rose,
Alec M. Gallup, and Stanley M. Elam
59 T. S. Eliot, Collaboration, and the Quandaries
of Assessment in a Rapidly Changing World, by Sam Wineburg
66 Co-opting Standardized Tests in the Service of Learning, by Kathe
Taylor and Sherry Walton
71 How School Communities Can Help Redefine Accountability Assessment, by
James A. Bernauer and Katherine Cress
76 Accountability: Issues, Possibilities, and Guiding Questions for Districtwide
Assessment of Student Learning, by Anne Davies and Patricia Williams
80 Bullying in School: It Doesn't Have to Happen, by Frank J. Barone
83 Doing What Works: An Interview with E. D. Hirsch, Jr., by Mark F.
Goldberg
DEPARTMENTS
2 GUEST EDITORIAL, Connecting with All Our Publics
3 WASHINGTON COMMENTARY, by Anne C. Lewis
5 STATELINE, by Chris Pipho
86 RESEARCH, by Gerald W. Bracey
89 COURTSIDE, Zero for Tolerance?, by Perry A. Zirkel
91 WORLD VIEW, Cooperating to Improve Students' Lives on an Overseas Base,
by Barbara J. Parker
93 POWER TOOLS, Innkeeping on the Web, by Royal Van Horn
95 BACKTALK