EDUCATION                     2008 Education reform could start with students Mitchell B. Pearlstein | July 11, 2008     2007 A Conversation About Minneapolis Public Schools with Chris Stewart February 2007 More choice will benefit African-American students Mitchell B. Pearlstein | February 21, 2007 Test results add up to a good case for vouchers Mitchell B. Pearlstein | January 18, 2007     2006 Pitfalls and Pratfalls of Education Summits Mitchell B. Pearlstein | April 23, 2006     2005 Teachers can find jobs in Florida Cheri Pierson Yecke | October 7, 2005 He helped expand freedom, learning Mitchell B. Pearlstein | September 30, 2005 Mayhem in the Middle Chester Finn | September 20, 2005 'A republic, if you can keep it' ... or remember what that means Cheri Pierson Yecke | September 15, 2005 Mayhem in the Middle:  How middle schools have failed America, and how to make them work Cheri Pierson Yecke | September 14, 2005 Meet the needs of all kids Cheri Pierson Yecke | July 14, 2005 Globalization and the Education of American Workers: Are We Living in a Fool's Paradise? Mitch Pearlstein | April 15, 2005 Why Won't We Let the Children Go?  School Choice and a Liberal's Examination of Conscience Elizabeth Mische | American Experiment Quarterly | Winter 2005 From Checker's Desk Chester E. Finn Jr. | American Experiment Quarterly | Winter 2005       2004 Kids, Schools, and Politics: Protecting the Integrity of Taxpayer Resources Cheri Pierson Yecke | December 12, 2004 Education or Indoctrination? Cheri Pierson Yecke | October 4, 2004  From Checker's Desk Chester E. Finn Jr. | American Experiment Quarterly, Summer-Fall 2004  A case of NEA whines won't help to improve the schools Cheri Pierson Yecke | September 22, 2004 Performance-Based Pact Can Help Schools Cheri Pierson Yecke | July 28, 2004 Common Sense School Reform Frederick M. Hess | American Experiment Quarterly | Spring 2004 No Excuses: Closing America's Racial Gap in Learning Abigail Thernstrom | American Experiment Quarterly | Spring 2004 No Excuses: Closing the Twin Cities' Racial Gap in Learning Jon Bacal | American Experiment Quarterly | Spring 2004 Changing School Systems Curtis Johnson and Neal Peirce | American Experiment Quarterly | Spring 2004 Freeing Teachers:  The Promise of Teacher Professional Partnerships Ted Kolderie | American Experiment Quarterly | Spring 2004 Appreciating Community Colleges: "In Many Ways, the Best Education" Jack Miller | American Experiment Quarterly | Spring 2004 From Checker's Desk Chester E. Finn Jr. | American Experiment Quarterly | Spring 2004 Yecke Should Be Confirmed Mitchell B. Pearlstein | March 30, 2004 How Vouchers Can Increase Public School Enrollments Jim Pumarlo | March 11, 2004 St. Olaf's Peacenik Prize Katherine A. Kersten | February 26, 2004 Why All Schools Should Compete, and Not Just in Sports Jim Pumarlo | January 23, 2004 Best Investment is School Choice Mitchell B. Pearlstein | January 4, 2004       2003 From Checker's Desk Chester E. Finn Jr. | American Experiment Quarterly | Winter 2003-2004 Twenty Years After A Nation at Risk:  Reconciling Grand Designs and Down-Home Rights in Education Chester E. Finn Jr. | American Experiment Quarterly | Fall 2003  The Quie Legacy:  Stronger Public Schools Joe Nathan | American Experiment Quarterly | Fall 2003 September 11:  Three Lessons Inspired by Providence Katherine A. Kersten | American Experiment Quarterly | Fall 2003 From Checker's Desk Chester E. Finn Jr. | American Experiment Quarterly | Fall 2003 St. Olaf's Academic Freedom Fight Katherine A. Kersten | November 23, 2003   Standards’ Critics Would Teach About an Oppressive America Katherine A. Kersten | November 9, 2003 What Is "Education For Democracy"? Katherine A. Kersten | September 3, 2003 Liberty vs. Security Mitchell B. Pearlstein | September 3, 2003 What Your Professors Won't Tell You:  Why Diversity Stops at the Classroom Door Katherine A. Kersten | American Experiment Quarterly | Summer 2003 From Checker's Desk Chester E. Finn Jr. | American Experiment Quarterly | Summer 2003 The Value of the Climb Mitchell B. Pearlstein | June 30, 2003 "Trust Us," They Explained: Racial Distrust and School Reform Frederick M. Hess | American Experiment Quarterly | Spring 2003 Was Horace Really the Mann?  The Many Schools of "Public" Education Matthew J. Brouillette | American Experiment Quarterly | Spring 2003 From Checker's Desk Chester E. Finn Jr. | American Experiment Quarterly | Spring 2003 Policy Brief on S.F. 639 (Academic Standards Bill) Katherine A. Kersten | May 1, 2003 It's time to resanctify colorblindness as ideal Mitchell B. Pearlstein | February 10, 2003 Policy Brief: A Critical Consensus on the Profile of Learning Morgan Brown | February 6, 2003 No amount of tweaking can repair the Profile of Learning Katherine A. Kersten | January 15, 2003      2002 In Diversity's Holy Name: The Case for Faith-Based Scholarship at the University of Minnesota Robert Osburn | American Experiment Quarterly | Winter 2002-2003  Minnesota's Profile of Learning: A Primer on Why It Still Flunks Katherine A. Kersten | American Experiment Quarterly | Winter 2002-2003  From Checker's Desk Chester E. Finn Jr. | American Experiment Quarterly | Winter 2002-2003  At universities, a troubling imbalance Katherine A. Kersten | November 20, 2002  From Checker's Desk Chester E. Finn Jr. | American Experiment Quarterly | Fall 2002 The Making of Patriots Leslie Lenkowsky | American Experiment Quarterly | Fall 2002 The Supremes Belt Out a New Hit:  School Choice in Minnesota after Cleveland Duane Benson, Joshua Borenstein, Morgan Brown, et al. | American Experiment Quarterly | Fall 2002 Reducing opportunities in the name of gender balance Katherine Kersten | September 30, 2002   Our schools can do a far better job of teaching patriotism Katherine Kersten | September 11, 2002 When schools got rid of Washington Katherine A. Kersten | August 14, 2002 "I Sit With Shakespeare and He Winces Not":  The Great Books and the Burgeoning of Citizenship Katherine A. Kersten | American Experiment Quarterly | Summer 2002  Can the University of Minnesota Become Truly "World Class"? Responses Frank B. Cerra, David B. Lebedoff, C. Peter Magrath, et al. | American Experiment Quarterly | Summer 2002 From Checker's Desk Chester E. Finn Jr. | American Experiment Quarterly | Summer 2002  Knowledge of history, and of self Katherine Kersten | June 9, 2002 Now girls have the advantage in school Katherine Kersten | May 22, 2002 Can the University of Minnesota Become Truly "World Class"? Mitchell B. Pearlstein | American Experiment Quarterly | Spring 2002 Why the Black-White Test Gap Exists John McWhorter | American Experiment Quarterly | Spring 2002 From Checker's Desk Chester E. Finn Jr. | American Experiment Quarterly | Spring 2002 Proof that the classics speak to everyone Katherine Kersten | February 20, 2002 Education of a governor Mitchell B. Pearlstein | February 12, 2002     2001 School Choice in Minnesota: A Call to Renewed Action Mitchell B. Pearlstein | American Experiment Quarterly | Winter 2001-2002 From Checker's Desk Chester E. Finn Jr. | American Experiment Quarterly | Winter 2001-2002  Three Governors Go Forth on School Choice Wendell R. Anderson, Arne H. Carlson, and Albert H. Quie | American Experiment Quarterly | Fall 2001 From Checker's Desk Chester E. Finn Jr. | American Experiment Quarterly | Fall 2001 Ideology burdens 'multicultural' bandwagon Katherine Kersten | November 28, 2001 Academy teaches history with integrated approach Katherine Kersten | June 22, 2001 A welcome renaissance in geography Katherine Kersten | May 23, 2001 A Century of Failed School Reforms:  The Case of Minnesota's Profile of Learning Diane Ravitch | American Experiment Quarterly | Spring 2001 Does School Choice Work? Daniel McGroarty | American Experiment Quarterly | Spring 2001 Profile requires surgery, but don't hold your breath Katherine Kersten | February 14, 2001       2000 Ideologically driven gifted assessment hurts students, too Katherine A. Kersten | November 29, 2000 Never Mind the Facts:  How Politically Correct Fantasies Are Causing Nightmares at St.Paul's Capitol Hill Magnet School Katherine A. Kersten | American Experiment Quarterly | Winter 2000-2001  What Better Time to Review US History Katherine A. Kersten | July 12, 2000 Choice Matters Mitchell B. Pearlstein | July 2000 Failing Grade Mitchell B. Pearlstein | June 2000 To Level Playing Field, Schools Must Help Boys Katherine A. Kersten | May 31, 2000 Hold off on the Profile Katherine A. Kersten | March 22, 2000 Nothing Plain About These Plains: Minnesota's Motley Story of School Reform Mitchell B. Pearlstein | American Experiment Quarterly | Spring 2000 A Dream Deferred: Why The Black-White Achievement Gap Won't Close Shelby Steele | American Experiment Quarterly | Spring 2000       1999 A Profile of Real Learning Lisa Graham Keegan | American Experiment Quarterly | Winter 1999 Risky Business? Teaching Literature at a Christian Liberal Arts College Mary Ellen Ashcroft | American Experiment Quarterly | Winter 1999 School Daze Mitchell B. Pearlstein | December 1999  Bring back Caesar's tongue Katherine A. Kersten | October 13, 1999 The damage Title IX does in pursuit of Statistical Parity Katherine A. Kersten | August 25, 1999 Passing Grades Mitchell B. Pearlstein | August 1999  Minnesota's Profile of Learning: The Radical Mutation of a Good Idea Katherine A. Kersten | American Experiment Quarterly | Summer 1999 St Thomas Stoops Far Too Low In its Next "Common Text" Katherine A. Kersten | May 5, 1999 When Smart People Do Dumb Things Mitchell B. Pearlstein | May 1999 Blame multicultural education for drop in reading skills Katherine A. Kersten | April 21, 1999 School Choice: Why Poor Kids Need It Most of All Floyd H. Flake | American Experiment Quarterly | Spring 1999 Academic Auditors Mitchell B. Pearlstein | March 1999 Profile Sacrifices Kids Katherine A. Kersten | January 27, 1999       1998 Voucher Victory: The Wisconsin Supreme Court on School Choice American Experiment Quarterly | Fall 1998 Truman's Teachers Offered Enduring Lessons Katherine A. Kersten | July 22, 1998 Dictatorship of Virtue: Mulitculturalism in Elementary and Secondary Schools Richard Bernstein | American Experiment Quarterly | Summer 1998 Bilingual Education: Conformity In The Name of Diversity Linda Chavez | American Experiment Quarterly | Summer 1998 Core Knowledge Curriculum Delivers Vision and Results Katherine A. Kersten | May 6, 1998 Peer Pressure Katherine A. Kersten | April 8, 1998 School Choice in Minnesota: Sudden Possibilities and Overcharged Expectations Mitchell B. Pearlstein | American Experiment Quarterly | Spring 1998 Reforming Education: Why Do Bad Things Happen to Good Ideas Chester E. Finn, Jr. | American Experiment Quarterly | Spring 1998 "Profile of Learning" for High Schools is Severely Flawed Katherine A. Kersten | March 4, 1998     1997 Educational Diversity Rules Katherine A. Kersten | November 5, 1997 State School Board's Dubious Diversity Rules Katherine A. Kersten | October 15, 1997 A Primer on the K-12 Compromise Mitchell B. Pearlstein | September 1997 Let's Examine These Exams Mitchell B. Pearlstein | August 1997 Students Who Know So Little Katherine A. Kersten | June 11, 1997 Students Who Know So Little Katherine A. Kersten | May 7, 1997 School Choice Plans Mitchell B. Pearlstein and Kristin J. Robins | April 21, 1997  Macy's Window:  Picking U's New President Mitchell B. Pearlstein | March 1997     1996 Trinity School and Standards Katherine A. Kersten | December 11, 1996 Girls In School Katherine A. Kersten | December 10, 1996 School Choice: Changing the Terms of the Debate Mitchell B. Pearlstein | December 4, 1996 What Is a Liberal Education Katherine A. Kersten | October 9, 1996 Girls Get Short Shrift in School? Not true  Katherine A. Kersten | October 9, 1996 Classical Education Opens Young Minds Katherine A. Kersten | August 28, 1996 State Should Fight NAACP Katherine A. Kersten | July 3, 1996 Back-to-Basics Aproach to Education would serve Schools and Children Best Katherine A. Kersten | June 17, 1996 Why Learn Western History? Katherine A. Kersten | April 3, 1996   Vouchers, Flat Tax, and Emotional Language Mitchell B. Pearlstein | April 1996 Homeschooling Adventure is a hit Katherine A. Kersten | February 21, 1996 The Legal Case--And The Fairness Case--For Vouchers Clink Bolick | February 20, 1996 School Choice and Rhetorical Excess Mitchell B. Pearlstein | February 15, 1996     1995 NAACP Lawsuit Could Force Proven Failure on Schools Katherine A. Kersten | September 26, 1995 What is a Liberal Education? Katherine A. Kersten | June 10, 1995  Good Intentions Are Not Enough: The Peril Posed by Minnesota's New Desegregation Plan Katherine A. Kersten | March 1995     1994 For schoolchildren, a disturbing primer of sex harrassment Katherine A. Kersten | November 21, 1994 What to do About the Schools Chester E. Finn, Jr. | November 1994  Political Correctness and Academic Freedom At The University of Minnesota Nils Hasselmo and Ian Maitland | October 1994 Outcome-Based Education: Has It Become More Affliction Than Cure? Bruno V. Manno | August 1994 School Desegregation Mitchell B. Pearlstein | July 18, 1994 Metrowide school busing plan neither inevitable nor desirable Katherine A. Kersten | March 15, 1994     1993 The Constitutional Case for Universal School Choice in Minnesota Jon S. Lerner | October 1993      1991 Our Schools And Our Future Chester E. Finn, Jr. | November 1991