Pre-College

Magazine articles on education and school administration grades K-12.

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Salon.com September 3, 2002 Arianna Huffington	Back to school Liberals champion reform of America's broken healthcare system, but resist change in America's schools.
ifeminists September 3, 2002 Tresa McBee	When Separate Can Be Equal -- and Better A look at the advantages of single-sex schools, and the barrier of providing "comparable" opportunities for both sexes.
IDB America July 2002 Claudia Neira	A Mayan with a vision of the future Tomas Alonzo Quisque, a primary education teacher and president of the San Jacinto's development committee, is working to narrow Guatemala's vast urban-rural social and economic divide through computers.
Mother Jones Jul/Aug 2002 Dan Oko	Rewriting Texas Texts Texas conservatives are aiming to revise their state's schoolbooks -- and teach a lesson to publishers nationwide.
Salon.com July 12, 2002 Janelle Brown	L is for lawsuit Angry that little Johnny flunked, increasing numbers of parents are suing teachers.
Reason July 2002 Brian Doherty	Great White Choice Many Americans cry out for Canadian-style state-financed and state-managed health care. But they might instead consider importing the Canadian approach to school choice. The experience of our neighbors to the north may point the way toward a future of better performance by poor students.
Reason July 2002 Jerry Jesness	Stand and Deliver Revisited The untold story behind the famous rise -- and shameful fall -- of Jaime Escalante, America's master math teacher.
Salon.com June 28, 2002 Janelle Brown	When the drug war invades the chess club ACLU lawyer Graham Boyd discusses the impact of Thursday's Supreme Court decision to allow drug testing of students who participate in extracurricular school activities.
Salon.com June 25, 2002 Susan Straight	Flour power The authorities have decided that hauling around sacks of flour will teach middle schoolers not to get pregnant. My daughter and I think it's a half-baked idea.
CIO June 15, 2002 Eric Berkman	IT Saves School In the fall of 2000, George Westinghouse High School in Brooklyn, a drug-and-violence-ridden urban school, reinvented itself as "IT High." Now, more than a year later, this transformation has saved a school and helped prepare the next generation of IT leaders.
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