BIRD'S EYE The Deep Secrets of Good Schools
By Karl Zinsmeister
One of the most constructive things that can be done to improve education is simply to observe successful schools in practice.
SCAN Short News and Commentary
Three cheers for the electoral college. The Right is not dead. Double standards at the IRS. George W. Bush wins the tax debate. Teacher contract nightmares. Tax burdens worsen. Voters grade the media. The media grade the media.
"LIVE" WITH TAE Shelby Foote
Acclaimed historian Shelby Foote rollicks over Lincoln, Civil War battles, the Confederate flag, computers, television, race, rednecks, the Klan, and other topics.
FORWARD OBSERVER Shareholders of the World Unite!
By James K. Glassman
The United States is becoming a nation of investors, and people with money in the stock market are likely to change their outlook about important political matters like taxes, regulation, trade, property rights, and labor relations.
BOOK TALK Reviews of New Books
• Bill Kauffman—Unwise Passions: A True Story of a Remarkable Woman—and the First Great Scandal of Eighteenth-century America by Alan Pell Crawford• Martin Morse Wooster—Grover Cleveland: A Study in Character by Alyn Brodsky• Peter Augustine Lawler—Oliver Stone's USA: Film, History, and Controversy by Robert Brent Toplin, with commentary by Oliver Stone
DIGEST Summaries of Important Research
Helping the poor by fighting crime...making money off the Holocaust...Congress encourages trash TV...DDT to the rescue.
Feature articles
14 Model Schools
By Andrew Peyton Thomas, Martin Morse Wooster, Eli Lehrer, Naomi Schaefer, Evan Gahr, Scott Walter, Bob Sale
Behind-the-scenes profiles of 14 dramatically varied schools with one big thing in common: Their students learn.
