This document consists of the 19 articles published in the Electronic Journal "Education Policy Analysis Archives" for the year 1996: (1) "The Achievement Crisis Is Real: A Review of 'The Manufactured Crisis'" (Lawrence C. Stedman); (2) "Staff Development Policy: Fuzzy Choices in an Imperfect Market" (Robert T. Stout); (3) "Making Molehills out of Molehills: Reply to Lawrence Stedman's Review of 'The Manufactured Crisis'" (David C. Berliner and Bruce J. Biddle); (4) "Standard Errors in Educational Assessment: A Policy Analysis Perspective" (Greg Camilli); (5) "Opening up Jewish Education to Inspection: The Impact of the OFSTED Inspection System in England" (Judy Keiner); (6) "The 1976 Illini: Sweet Memories of Alma Mater" (Diya Dutt); (7) "Respecting the Evidence: The Achievement Crisis Remains Real" (Lawrence C. Stedman); (8) "Developmentalism: An Obscure but Pervasive Restriction on Educational Improvement" (J. E. Stone); (9) "Markets versus Monopolies in Education: The Historical Evidence" (Andrew Coulson); (10) "Being Popular about National Standards: A Review of 'National Standards in American Education: A Citizen's Guide'" (Michael W. Apple); (11) "National Education 'Goals 2000': Some Disastrous Unintended Consequences" (Robert H. Seidman); (12) "Public School Reform: Potential Lessons from the Truly Departed" (J. Dan Marshall and James P. Valle); (13) "Implementing AIDS Education: Policies and Practices" (Grace C. Huerta); (14) "Actual Schools, Possible Practices: New Directions in Professional Development" (Rebecca Novick); (15) "A Review of Dorn's'Creating the Dropout'" (Aimee Howeley); (16) "A Review of 'Computers as Tutors: Solving the Crisis in Education'" (Greg Sherman); (17) "What Does the Psychometrician's Classroom Look Like? Reframing Assessment Concepts in the Context of Learning" (Catherine S. Taylor and Susan Bobbitt Nolen); (18) "Inclusive Education in the United States: Beliefs and Practices among Middle School Principals and Teachers" (C. Kenneth Tanner, Deborah Jan Vaughn Linscott, and Susan Allan Galis); and (19) "'The Bell Curve': Corrected for Skew" (Haggai Kupermintz). (SLD)