A new issue of Education is out. A new issue of the International Journal of Multicultural Education is out. Anastasia Stamoglou (Birmingham): The Battle of the Books: Canon and Literary Tradition in Literature School Textbooks. From Rethinking Schools, a special section on the power of poetry. What they're doing after Harvard: Teach for America now attracts 12% of all Ivy League seniors — the program's founder explains why it beats working on Wall Street. A review of The Making of an Educational Conservative by E.D. Hirsch. An Episcopalian, an atheist, and a Jew walk into a Catholic school: Meet the (non-Catholic) patron saints of inner-city Catholic education. A review of Americans All: The Cultural Gifts Movement by Diana Selig. Jonah Lehrer on how preschool changes the brain. With test scores down and the dropout rate up, everyone’s looking to fix Texas’ schools; has a Turkish Muslim who has been influenced by the teachings of obscure philosopher Fethullah Gulen found an answer? The self-esteem movement may be silly, but social scientists should exercise caution in diagnosing a so-called epidemic among young people. From Time, a look at the case against summer vacations. From Gifted Child Quarterly, a special issue on revisiting gifted education myths. Separate but equal: More schools are dividing classes by gender. What we could learn from India and Korea: Martha Nussbaum on how both nations understand how to educate children the right way. Is firing (a lot of) teachers the only way to improve public schools? Needs Improvement: The Numbers Guy Carl Bialik on where teacher report cards fall short (and more). Between Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin, which Founding Father did the most — by far — to promote and shape the future of public education in America?
