Education Next
Spring 2004
The new edition of Education Next is out this week. We've previously mentioned the lead article, a pathbreaking analysis of the costs of NCLB by Robert Costrell and James Peyser (seehttp://www.edexcellence.net/gadfly/issue.cfm?issue=134#1661). Other worthy articles include David N. Figlio and Maurice E. Lucas on new research suggesting that tough graders produce better student achievement; Thomas Dee's fascinating attempt to tease out whether being taught by a teacher of the same race has any impact on student achievement; and a learned exchange on civic education between Stephen Macedo and Fordham's Checker Finn. Much good stuff; check it out athttp://www.educationnext.org/20042/.