Hot off the press, the spring issue of Independent School magazine will be available at the conference. The first 1,000 conference-goers who stop by the NAIS bookstore at the Exhibit Hall will receive a free copy. (BTW, we're at an all-time record: 6,200 registered and counting!)

This issue is sure to win awards. "Education and Democracy, Today," the theme of the issue, will explore different approaches to education and "the new generation of progressive schools."

IS editor, Michael Brosnan says "At the start of the last century, John Dewey's notions about education and democracy sealed the link between the two. But that link between education and democracy has been stretched and bent and tested intensely in recent decades."

Authors Alfie Kohen, Amy Purcell Vorenberg, Al Adams, and others explore a cut across our traditional independent school roots and look at education in a democratic nation, public policy and independent school education, equity and justice, and the steady tension between the individual and society.