The current issue of Phi Delta Kappan contains both a screed by the infamous Alfie Kohn on the subject of corporate involvement in education and the latest of Gerald Bracey's annual rants about who he likes and who he doesn't like in American education. Just about everyone who wants to boost standards or foster choice manages to land in the latter category. Though the Kappan occasionally publishes worthwhile stuff (including, once in a while, our own), too often it affords a vivid display of one reason that education reform in America is so difficult: because so many people who write for the field's better known magazines aren't really reform-minded at all. "The 500-Pound Gorilla," by Alfie Kohn, and "The 12th Bracey Report on the Condition of Public Education," by Gerald Bracey, Phi Delta Kappan, October 2002 (not available online, though you can view the table of contents at http://www.pdkintl.org/kappan/ktoc.htm)
