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DECEMBER 1997
Volume 79 * Number 4
Features
264 KERA: A Tale of One Teacher, by Holly Holland
272 KERA: A Tale of One School, by Robert Rothman
276 Kentucky's Conflicting Reform Principles: High-Stakes School Accountability
and Student Performance Assessment, by Ken Jones and Betty Lou Whitford
282 Volunteer Tutoring Programs: Do We Know What Works?, by Barbara
A. Wasik
288 The Promise and Limits of School-Based Reform: A National Snapshot,
by Patrick M. Shields and Michael S. Knapp
295 Surviving TIMSS: Or, Everything You Blissfully Forgot About International
Comparisons, by David P. Baker
301 Sensationalism, Politics, and Literacy: What's
Going On?, by Rona F. Flippo
305 Reading Matters: Supporting the Development of Young Adolescent Readers,
by Jack W. Humphrey, Joan Lipsitz, John T. McGovern, and Judith Davidson
Wasser
312 A Turn Down the Harbor with At-Risk Children, by William Meyer
317 The Holocaust and Education: An Interview with Michael Berenbaum, by
Mark Goldberg
320 On Creating a Climate of Classroom Civility, by James M. Kauffman
and Harold J. Burbach
326 Flavor Crystals as Brain Food: Unplug TV Commercials in Schools, by
Roy F. Fox
Departments
258 EDITOR'S PAGE, No Strings
259 WASHINGTON COMMENTARY, by Anne C. Lewis
261 STATELINE, by Chris Pipho
328 RESEARCH, by Gerald W. Bracey
330 COURTSIDE, A Rare Religious Reversal, by Perry A. Zirkel
332 IN CANADA, A Battle Is Raging over Ontario Education, by Tom McConaghy
334 POWER TOOLS, Gift-Giving Ideas, by Royal Van Horn
336 BACKTALK |
