June 23, 1993

Education Week, Vol. 12, Issue 39
Education Opinion A National Curriculum and Tests: Charting the Consequences
In 1974, I became superintendent of the Arlington, Va., public schools. Shrinking enrollments and increasing numbers of minority students had set off tremors in the community over falling test scores and the perceived decline in academic quality of the schools. Mainstream wisdom among federal policymakers then was that schools don't make much of a difference in children's lives and that spending money to improve schools was wasteful.
Larry Cuban, July 14, 1993
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Education Opinion The New Philanthropy: High-Tech Technical Assistance
Business interest in education is an old story in America; in both the 19th and 20th centuries, business has played a major role in education reform, beginning with De Witt Clinton's establishment of the Free School Society in the 1830's.
June 23, 1993
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Education Opinion 'Separate Is Not Equal’
The series of articles and letters appearing in Education Week in the past few months, including a delightful letter from Gerald Coles debunking the attention- deficit-disorder myth (Letters, May 19, 1993), were a feast for starved readers like me.
David O. Krantz, June 23, 1993
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Education Opinion The Use and Misuse of Hope
The following was adapted from a lecture given by Mr. Botstein May 11, 1993, in New York City. His topic was “America's Education Crisis: What Should Be Done?"
Leon Botstein, June 23, 1993
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10 min read