The State Education Standard
Vol. 2, No. 1
May 2001

 Feature Articles:
Market Forces and Public Education: Prospects for the Second Decade

by John McLaughlin
With education becoming the nation's second largest industry, it is inevitable that private enterprise will play an increasingly larger role.

 

Corporate Involvement in Schools: Time for a More Critical Look
by Alex Molnar
The director of the Center for the Analysis of Commercialism in Education asks policymakers to evaluate and objectively calculate the public benefits and costs of for-profit involvement in education.

 

A Buyer's Market: Education in the New Economy

By Jason Ohler
Education is now a buyer's, rather than a seller's, market. In a high-tech economy, adding value becomes everything--and the student becomes schools' client and customer.

 

A New Look at Vouchers

by Robert B. Reich T
The former Secretary of Labor argues that a different way of funding schools would give poor families more choices and more money for education.

 

Challenges for Charters

by Amy Berk Anderson & John L. Myers
While charter school growth is expected to continue, a number a challenges must be met if these schools are to reach their potential in terms of innovation, student achievement, and parental choice

 

Myths and Truths about Channel One and Education

by Jeffrey Ballabon and Paul Folkemer
The authors argue that Channel One supplies schools with both valuable equipment and educational content --without requiring a "Faustian" bargain between educators and business

 

Retaining Good Teachers: A Business Management Approach to Solving an Education Problem

by Gary Gordon
Using a survey instrument developed by the Gallup Organization, the author shows how schools can improve worker satisfaction for teachers and increase student achievement at the same time.

 

Departments:
Editor's Note

Executive Summary
by NASBE Executive Director Brenda Welburn

Policy Pulse
A summary of recent state education actions

Washington Notebook
Surveying the federal education scene

State Innovations
Ohio's Indicators of Success Early Childhood Assessment Program

Judicial Review
by Kevin McDowell
The Devil in the Details: Public Schools and Commercial Free Speech

The Policy Wonk
by Virginia Roach
The art of state education policymaking