Cover Art © 1999
by Kay Salem |
November 1999 · Volume 81 · Number 3
FEATURES
184 Grappling, by Theodore R. Sizer and
Nancy Faust Sizer
191 Assessment,
Student Confidence, and School Success, by Richard J.
Stiggins
199 The Impact of High-Stakes Testing on Teachers
and Students in North Carolina, by M. Gail Jones,
Brett D. Jones, Belinda Hardin, Lisa Chapman, Tracie Yarbrough,
and Marcia Davis
204 Assessment-Driven Reform: The Emperor Still
Has No Clothes, by Al Ramirez
209 Standards for Standards-Based
Accountability Systems, by Kenneth A. Sirotnik
and Kathy Kimball
215 Perils on an Essential Journey: Building School
Community, by Eric Schaps and Catherine Lewis
219 Rugtime for Teachers: Reinventing the Faculty
Meeting, by Elizabeth A. Hebert
223 Rules and Rituals: Tools
for Creating a Respectful, Caring Learning Community,
by Patricia Horsch, Jie-Qi Chen, and Donna Nelson
228 Special Education Revisited: A Response to Zollers
and Ramanathan, by Naomi Zigmond
235 Educators Need to Know About the Human Brain,
by Ron Brandt
239 Scientific Literacy Revisited, by
Richard L. Hinman
242 Public and Private Schooling in Australia: Some
Historical and Contemporary Considerations, by Anthony
Potts
DEPARTMENTS
178 THE EDITOR'S PAGE, Flawed Information
Can Puzzle the Public
179 WASHINGTON COMMENTARY, by Anne C. Lewis
181 STATELINE,
by Chris Pipho
246 RESEARCH, by Gerald W. Bracey
248 COURTSIDE, An Unprincipled Arrangement?,
by Perry A. Zirkel
250 IN CANADA, That Draining Sensation,
by Heather-jane Robertson
252 TECHNOLOGY,
Electronic Scholarship, by Royal Van Horn
254 BACKTALK
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