Philip A. Cusick

Secondary School Reform: What Does the Public Say?.

Principals know what the studies have recommended to improve secondary schools, but do they know with any accuracy what their publics are saying about the recommendations? This article will help principals to know more exactly what their publics are thinking about the reform movement and at what level they are willing to support the recommendations.

The Logic of the U.S. Educational System and Teaching

No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and Race to the Top (RTTT) are part of a widely heralded and visible change effort, providing a powerful force—replete with evidence, logic, money, and voice—that is changing public schooling away from locally run and state-subsidized, into a federal-state-controlled enterprise. The article begins by situating the impact of NCLB/RTTT on quality teaching within the story of a 50-year effort by educators, politicians, researchers, and those generally dissatisfied—or perhaps wanting a piece of K–12s annual

A Bulletin Special: Secondary School Structure: The Critieal Dilemma

850 billion dollars—to exert more control over public schools. It then explains the organizational and bureaucratic direction the reform has taken, as well as the reigning notion that identifies teachers as both the problem and the solution. The article concludes by exploring how and why—even in the face of reform—the basic issues of effectiveness, efficiency, and most importantly, equality, remain problematic.

Book Reviews: Uncoiling Tracking

agreed-upon entity. One teacher wanted to teach international relations; another ballet; another gymnastics, or soccer, or Shakespeare, or the gifted, so that teacher would work up the curriculum, co-opt the principal and

Reflections on Youth: Transition to Adulthood

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A Study of Networks Among Professional Staffs in Secondary Schools

In the following article Cusick takes a look at the state of education, as described in the Coleman re port, and voices some personal concerns.