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Table of Contents
Vol. 47, No. 3 |
| Features Vol. 47, No. 3 |
| For the Record 107 Charter Schools: Education Reform or Business? by Christopher H. Tienken Charter Schools: Taking a Closer Look 110 by Katrina E. Bulkley Find out how charter schools operate, who attends them, how they are distinctive, and how they are faring academically. High Test Scores: The Wrong Road to National Economic Success 116 by Keith Baker Instead of pursuing the blind alley of raising test scores, researchers must try to understand what it is about schools that really leads to economic success. 21st Century Skills: Prepare Students for the Future 121 by Lotta C. Larson and Teresa Northern Miller Skills students will need for the society in which they will work and live shouldn’t be thought of as “one more thing to teach,” but rather training integrated across all curricula. Interscholastic Sports: A Character-Building Privilege 124 by Angela Lumpkin and Sarah Stokowski High school coaches should teach, model, and reinforce to their athletes that participation in interscholastic sports is a character-building privilege earned by showing respect, playing fair, and striving to win while keeping winning in perspective. |
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