This document is comprised of the six issues in volume 16 of the Harvard Education Letter, a bimonthly newsletter addressing current issues in elementary and secondary education. Articles in this volume include the following: (1) January-February--"Grade Inflation: What's Really behind All Those A's?" (Birk) and "Every Friday was Fight Day" (Farber); (2) March-April--"Successful School Reform Efforts Share Common Features" (Downs) and "Mining for Gold in a Mountain of Online Resources" (Tally and Burns); (3) May-June--"Putting Cooperative Learning to the Test" (Walters) and "Schools Need To Pay More Attention to 'Intelligence in the Wild'" (Perkins); (4) July-August--"Shakespeare vs. Teletubbies: Is There a Role for Pop Culture in the Classroom?" (Amster), "View from the Classroom: Student Writers Hone Their Skills,""Would More Phys Ed Curb Kids' Weight Gain?" and "Online Term-Paper Mills Produce a New Crop of Cheaters" (Ditman); (5) September-October--"Are High-Stakes Tests Worth the Wager?" (Sadowski), and "Portrait of the 'Super Principal'" (Pierce); and (6) November-December--"Getting a Jump on Good Health" (Amster) and "Will New Standards Bring Peace to the Math Wars?" (Downs). Regular features include editorial statements and summaries of recent research. (KB)