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September 1998 · Volume 80 · Number 1
FEATURES
8 The Canary in the Mine: The Achievement Gap Between Black and
White Students, by Mano Singham
16 The 'Eliting' of the Common American Catholic School and the National
Education Crisis, by David P. Baker and Cornelius Riordan
24 The So-Called Failure of Catholic Schools, by Andrew Greeley
26 Grazing the Net: Raising a Generation of Free-Range Students, by
Jamie McKenzie
32 Tinkering with TIMSS, by Gerald W.
Bracey
36 A Content Examination of the TIMSS Items,
by Jianjun Wang
39 Building Community: An Alternative Assessment, by J. Eric
Bishop and Sharon Fransen
41 The 30th Annual Phi Delta Kappa/Gallup
Poll of the Public's Attitudes Toward the Public Schools, by Lowell
C. Rose and Alec M. Gallup
59 Sitting Down to Score: Teacher Learning Through Assessment,
by Beverly Falk and Suzanna Ort
65 The Street Value of the GED Diploma, by David Boesel
69 Working Together for the Student: What I Learned from Two Years on a
Primary School Board in New Zealand, by Samuel Coad Dyer
72 Teaching the Classics in the Middle Grades: Connecting with the Roots
of Western Civilization, by Robin H. Wood
75 Thinking Toward Utopia: Reconstructing the Tradition of the Active Mind,
by Martin Bickman
79 Miles' Smile, by Bob Giusto
84 Paradigm Shifts in the Classroom, by Thomas J. Lasley II
DEPARTMENTS
2 GUEST EDITORIAL, Building Public Support for Schools
3 WASHINGTON COMMENTARY, by Anne C.
Lewis
5 STATELINE, by Chris Pipho
88 RESEARCH, by Gerald W. Bracey
90 COURTSIDE, The Magic of Teaching, by Perry
A. Zirkel
92 TECHNOLOGY, Personal Privacy, by Royal
Van Horn
94 BACKTALK
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