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Introduction
By The Editors
ARTICLES
Leave
No Parent Behind: Restoring Parental Authority in America's Schools
By Michael Giorgino
Giorgino makes the policy and legal case for upholding the right
of parents to direct the education of their children, a right that he maintains
is increasingly being denied.
Leaving
Many Children Behind
By Chester Finn
Finn finds that many states and local school districts are obstructing
even the limited school choice provision of the No Child Left Behind Act
and thereby doing damage to Congress' intent, and more importantly to children
trapped in failing schools.
The
GED Myth: How GED Recipients Inflate Official High School Graduation
Rates
By Jay Greene
Greene documents the education establishment's misleading classification
of GED recipients as high school graduates. While the GED program
is useful, Greene demonstrates it is not truly equivalent to a high school
degree and argues the number of GED recipients is more indicative of a
high school's failure than its success.
Lying
in a Room of One's Own: How Women's Studies Miseducate Students
By Christine Stolba
Stolba's thorough review of textbooks used in Women's Studies programs
across the country reveals errors of fact, errors of interpretation, and
sins of omission are rampant.
Education's
Iron Triangle: Uncovering the Values and Beliefs of the NEA, AFT,
and PTA
By Dick Carpenter, Travis Pardo & Charlene Haar
The authors examine the social and political agenda of the nation's
leading teachers' unions as well as the Parent-Teacher Association.
They find all three groups, perhaps most surprisingly the PTA, consistently
advocate liberal policies, even on issues unrelated to education.
Majoring
in Political Correctness: Commencements of 2002 Achieve New Degree
of Wackiness
By Marc Levin
You won't believe what was said by bell hooks (sic) at Southwestern
University in Texas, Tony Kushner at Vassar College in New York, and Lani
Guinier at Smith College in Massachusetts.
BOOKS
Is
This Progress? A Review of James Duderstadt's A University for
the 21st Century
By George Leef
Leef finds a book that attempts to chart the future is actually
stuck in the past.
Feel
Good Curriculum Dumbs Down: A Review of Maureen Stout's The Feel
Good Curriculum: The Dumbing Down of America's Kids in the Name of
Self-Esteem
By Marianne Jennings
Jennings praises the book despite its occasional unwelcome diversions
because it powerfully debunks the well-known shibboleths of modern educators
that have become gospel without either the divine ordination or the science
to support them.
The
Right College Guide: A Review of ISI's Choosing the Right College
By Jerry Martin
The latest edition of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute's College
Guide pierces the veil of the Ivory Tower to identify the campuses where
political correctness has usurped tradition, says Jerry Martin.
SHADOWLANDS
The
Tests We Know We Need
By Louis V. Gerstner Jr.
The CEO of IBM offers a business perspective in support of preserving
standardized tests and using the results to hold schools accountable.
FROM THE ARCHIVES
Many articles from previous issues of the Education Review are available at texaseducationreview.com. The following study from our Spring 2000 issue was recently placed online and remains timely and instructive:
Integration
Where it Counts: Integration in Public and Private School Lunchrooms
by Jay Greene & Nicole Mellow
While traditional studies of integration have simply considered
the number of whites and minorities in particular schools, the authors
measure integration by whether students of different races in the same
building actually associate with one another. Their empirical study
finds that such interaction occurs more commonly in private than public
schools.
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STAFF
Brent Tantillo, Publisher and Editor
President, Texas Review Society
Marc Levin, Editor
Vice President, Texas Review Society
Kevin Kosar, Senior Editor
Lecturer in Public Administration, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School
of Public Service, New York University
EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD
Williamson Evers
Research Fellow
Hoover Institution
Jay Greene
Fellow
Manhattan Institute
Joseph Horn
Professor of Psychology
University of Texas at Austin
David Horowitz
President
Center for the Study of Popular Culture
Jeff Judson
President
Texas Public Policy Foundation
David Kirkpatrick
Senior Fellow for Teacher Choice
Alexis de Tocqueville Institute for Public Policy
Alan Kors
Professor of History
University of Pennsylvania
Herb London
President, The Hudson Institute
John M. Olin University Professor of Humanities
New York University
Bruno V. Manno
Senior Program Associate in Education
Annie E. Casey Foundation
John Merrifield
Professor of Economics
University of Texas at San Antonio
Winfield Myers
Educational Analyst
The Democracy Project
Allan Parker
President
Texas Justice Foundation
Kelly Shackelford
President, Free Market Foundation
Adjunct Professor, University of Texas School of Law
Bradford Wilson
Executive Director
National Association of Scholars
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