Harvard Graduate School of Education's Meira Levinson argues that recovering the civic purposes of public schools will take more than tweaking their curricula. Drawing on political theory, empirical research and her own experience from teaching at an all-black middle school in Atlanta, Levinson calls on schools to remake civic education.

Frederick M. Hess and Juliet P. Squire analyze how the state of Hawaii has restructured failing schools and what useful lessons for other states and locales can be learned from the experience.

Although we are far short of fostering a decent supply of dynamic, quality-conscious districtand charter schools, much has been learned along the way.

Schools under restructuring in Hawaii partner with outside organizations at a much higher level than schools on the mainland; Hawaii has put in place support mechanisms to facilitate partnerships with these external providers.

When its schools began entering restructuring in 2002, officials at Hawaii's Department of Education brought in outside expertise to restructure failing schools and also adopted a "diverse provider model."

Better-designed provider-level measurement can make the cost containment tools of differential reimbursement, high-performance tiered networks, valuebased benefit design, clinical re-engineering, and the responsible choices they offer more visible and effective.

Questions on race and ethnicity should be eliminated from the 2010 census.

When President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad emerged from seemingly nowhere to capture the Iranian presidency in 2005, American officials were dumbfounded. Whereas his predecessor, Mohammad Khatami, sought to assuage the West with talk of ‘dialogue of civilizations’, Ahmadinejad was crude and coarse.