Overcoming the Language Gap

By E.D. Hirsch, Jr.

Low-income children whose decoding skills are good tend, nevertheless, to have big deficiencies in vocabulary and comprehension. We can do something about that.

By Louisa C. Moats

A report from the front lines: Bringing the best that reading research has to offer into the classroom requires much more than handing teachers a good beginning reading series.

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How To Prepare Students for Algebra (pdf, 105k)
By H. Wu
The best kind of "pre-algebra" curriculum occurs naturally in mathematics: The proper study of fractions provides a ramp that leads students gently from whole number arithmetic up to algebra.

Religious Freedom in the World
As Americans, we take for granted what Jefferson called "freedom of conscience." But this most basic human right is under assault in many areas of the world.

A Forgotten Hero of Liberal Education
By Diane Ravitch
William Chandler Bagley got branded a "reactionary" for insisting--75 years ago--that all children should have access to a liberal education, regardless of their IQ.

What Is a Man?
By Waller R. Newell
If we cut our boys and young men off from the nobly inspiring tradition of manly virtue that stretches across the ages, they may turn to coarse, sometimes violent, substitutes.

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