October 1998 | Volume 56 | Number 2

Whose Schools?

Feature Articles

Perspectives / Undue Influence?

Marge Scherer

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Reclaiming a Democratic Purpose for Education

James A. Beane

An eloquent plea to keep the dream of progressive education alive as we ask whom we are serving and why.

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Education Incorporated?

Henry Giroux

From corporate takeovers to the commercialization of the curriculum—schools face an unprecedented attack from market ideology.

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Talking to the Public About Public Schools

Adam Kernan-Schloss and Andy Plattner

When the community is far from being monolithic, how do leaders gain support for schools?

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Public Engagement: Lessons from the Front

Sylvia Soholt

How the Edmonds, Washington, district learned to focus attention on student achievement.

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Communicating with the So-Called Monster Media

Dolores Boylston Bohen

A community relations officer takes readers through a typical day and offers advice to those who work with news organizations.

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Phone Home

Chris Gustafson

Call it the power of telephone technology, but the connections with parents are personal.

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How Customer-Friendly Is Your School?

Lyn Chambers

Impressionable visitors glean many clues from a school's routine practice.

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Vouchers and Voodoo Economics

Al Ramirez

Before vouchers can be feasible, proponents need to answer some questions about capacity and accountability.

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Why I Don't Vouch for Vouchers

Barbara Miner

Private schools don't follow the same rules as public schools, this author contends.

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Heads Up! The EMOs Are Coming

Carol B. Furtwengler

Education management organizations will soon be operating in almost every state. What can we learn from them? What should we question?

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The Thinking Behind Arizona's Charter Movement

Gregg Garn

In Arizona, antibureaucratic leanings and a belief in a competitive market system are driving the charter schools legislation.

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For-Profit Charter Schools: What the Public Needs to Know

Christy Lancaster Dykgraaf and Shirley Kane Lewis

Although charter schools in western Michigan receive state funding for transportation and special education, few actually provide the services, these researchers found.

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The Democratizing Potential of Charter Schools

Stacy Smith

Charter schools can be forums for public debate and collective decision making. A school called City on the Hill is just one example.

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Hippie High School

Charles S. Clark

What began as a free-form alternative school has changed with the times, but its students still come first.

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In England / Whose Curriculum? A Conversation with Nicholas Tate

Carol Tell

The head of England's chief curriculum department describes the benefits and challenges that a national curriculum poses for students and educators.

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Contemporary Issues / The Legal Basis of Inclusion

Mitchell L. Yell

An analysis of the IDEA and three major court cases points to four themes that schools must adhere to when implementing inclusion.

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Taking Inclusion Back to Its Roots

Jean B. Crockett and James M. Kauffman

A reminder that students with special needs require individualized attention and a specialized support system.

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Taking Inclusion into the Future

Dorothy Kerzner Lipsky and Alan Gartner

The vision is to go beyond a dual system toward a truly integrated one that serves all students.

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Departments

Research Link / School Vouchers: Much Debate, Little Research

Andrew S. Latham

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Policy Link / Whose Election?

Joan Montgomery Halford

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Resources

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Letters

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Whose Magazine? A Report on a Readership Survey for Educational Leadership

Marge Scherer

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Reviews

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ASCD in Action

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Portfolio

Joan Montgomery Halford

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