Commentaries (Susan Ohanian Speaks Out)

Commentaries

Throwing the book at educators while ignoring financiers and CEOs (2013-05-25)
Child poverty is the real scandal (2013-05-25)
Getting Slammed (2013-05-21)
Celebrating Inequality (2013-05-20)
'Why I Resist' (2013-05-20)
Change the purpose of education (2013-05-16)
In U.S., cheating runs rampant (2013-05-12)
Psychiatry is to the Pharmaceutical Industry as Education Reform Is To . . . . (2013-05-07)
My letter to the Education Committees and Oklahoma State Superintendent of Public Instruction (2013-05-01)
The Selfish Case for the Common Good (2013-04-30)
We Are Entering the Age of Infinite Examination (2013-04-27)
The real problem in education: the 'opportunity gap' (2013-04-27)
Crash Test (2013-04-24)
Why STEM Should Care About the Humanities (2013-04-15)
We Are the 'Liberty Plaza' (2013-04-13)
Two Obamas, Two Classes of Children (2013-04-12)
Barbarism Rising: Detroit and the International War of the Rich on the Poor (2013-04-04)
A Mom, a Cook, A Scientist or A Scientist, A Mom, and Forget the Cooking (2013-04-02)
Why I won't let my son take the PSSA (2013-04-01)
To (All) the Colleges That Rejected Me If only I had a tiger mom or started a fake charity. (2013-04-06)
College Not A Good Deal For Many High Schoolers (2013-03-15)
Where school reform fails to meet classroom reality (2013-03-03)
Here is a STEM Worker on the Job (2013-02-27)
Math Poems (2013-02-24)
Strike for America: The CTU and the Democrats (2013-02-17)
The New Ideal Teacher (2013-02-15)
The Hard Sell and the Educator (2013-02-15)
Rosa Parks at 100: a great American rebel for racial justice (2013-02-04)
Six-year-olds need to play more than they need to spell (2013-02-17)
Education in Obama's Second Term: What Lies Ahead? (2013-02-02)
Teaching By the Numbers (2013-01-22)
Objects Of Desire (2013-01-14)
The Patience Deficit (2013-01-14)
A Standardized Testing Revolt (2013-01-11)
The resilient heart? It's also the open heart (2012-12-30)
Hide and Grovel: Educators Should Lead the Charge to Repeal the Second Amendment (2012-12-17)
FairTest Testimony to U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Human Rights (2012-12-14)
BOOK REVIEW: Paul Tough, KIPP, and the Character Con: A Review of 'How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character' (2012-12-13)
Today's Assignment (2012-12-10)
Obama Won, But Did Educators Lose In the Process? (2012-11-13)
A call for President Obama to change course on education (2012-11-08)
Tennessee Public School Children: Talking About Poverty (2012-11-20)
Against Obedience (2012-10-22)
'Won’t Back Down': Why do teachers’ unions hate America? (2012-09-26)
Chicago school teachers give us all a lesson (2012-09-20)
A Letter from an Art Teacher You Won't Forget (2012-09-19)
Chicago you are not alone... World-wide support grows for Chicago Teachers Union strike (2012-09-20)
Can the Chicago Teachers' Strike Fix Democratic Education Reform? (2012-09-18)
Are We Asking Too Much From Our Teachers? (2012-09-17)
Teachers strike in Chicago for larger vision of public education (2012-09-15)
Chicago School Strike is Against Obama 'Race To The Top' Agenda of School Privatization and Corporate Education Reform (2012-09-13)
How Much Do Teacher Strikes Hurt Kids? (2012-09-13)
Brother/Sister, Can You Spare a Couple of Bucks? (2012-09-10)
Chicago: The Strike is On (2012-09-10)
Adam Wheeler Went to Harvard (2012-08-31)
Opening Closed Minds (2012-08-29)
In defense of public education (2012-08-29)
Educators Have No Political Party (2012-08-28)
Chicago school day: A teacher responds (2012-08-08)
Spelling Random Lexical Flotsam (2012-08-03)
Is Algebra Necessary? (2012-07-29)
Chicago Teachers' Fight Could Revitalize the Labor Movement Globally (2012-07-24)
The Greatest Crimes Against Humanity Are Perpetrated by People Just Doing Their Jobs (2012-07-23)
Behind the Lines The Big Test (2012-07-21)
NEA's Representative Assembly Part Four Mopping Up... The Budget; The Left at and After the RA. Coming: Why are Things as They Are? (2012-07-11)
School as Wonder, or Way Out (2012-07-11)
NEA Convention Report, Day Three... The NEA Representative Assembly Part Three 'We Mis-Educate Our Members and the Nation! No Bullying! Obama! Money=V (2012-07-09)
NEA Convention Report. Part Two, more of the same, and worse... If 'Wisconsin' was a victory, how does the NEA spell D E F E A T?... The NEA Represent (2012-07-08)
NEA Convention Report. Part One... The National Education Association Representative Assembly 2012... 'Patriotism! Democracy! It’s About Us! We Teac (2012-07-11)
Ghosts of PATCO and the Coming Battle for Teachers (2012-06-30)
Better Childhoods Needed (2012-06-26)
High Button Shoes and Education Reform (2012-06-11)
Obama's neoliberal agenda for education (2012-06-07)
How extremism is normalized (2012-06-05)
The 1 Percent's Problem (2012-06-02)
ANALYSIS: Upheaval in San Diego teachers union over massive cuts adopted by a school board the union helped elect (2012-05-27)
A Michigan Educator Has a Few Questions About Those NAEP Science Scores (2012-05-13)
Save Our Schools Does Not Need a Platform (2012-05-11)
Will Current School Reforms Improve Education? (2012-05-06)
Arne Duncan’s Misguided Push for Competitiveness (2012-04-21)
Why the United States Is Destroying Its Education System (2012-04-24)
Wrong Solution for Struggling High School (2012-04-06)
Now Watch Republicans Hang Education 'Reform' Around Democrats' Necks (2012-03-31)
On Stir-and-Serve Recipes for Teaching (2012-03-16)
A Lesson in Teaching to the Test, From E.B. White (2012-03-08)
Against Collaboration: Reading and Writing Are Not Social Acts (2012-03-04)
In the Courtroom: Call for Directed Verdict of Public Insanity (2012-03-03)
Ralph Nader: Occupy the Minimum Wage and Impact the Election (2012-02-28)
He’s looked at life from both sides now – or has he? Arne Duncan claims the high ground, but school clinics still face needless obstacles (2012-02-27)
Et tu, Zappa? (2012-02-25)
How real school reform should look (or explaining water to a fish) (2012-02-06)
Common core standards, liability or asset? (2012-02-04)
A Talk to Teachers (2012-01-23)
Education Week and No Child Left Behind (2012-01-14)
UNDERNEWS SPECIAL: POST EMPIRE SURVIVAL GUIDE (2012-01-11)
Favorite Night of the Week (2012-01-07)
Reading Articles about Real Estate Sales in the Wall Street Journal (2012-01-04)
A Decent Education (2012-01-04)
Stop Letting High-School Courses Count for College Credit (2012-01-03)
What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland's School Success (2011-12-30)
Once Upon a Time, Not Too Long Ago, Teaching Was Considered a Profession, But Then Came Standardization, Tests, and Value-Added Merit Pay Schemes That (2011-12-20)
The Failure of Corporate School Reform: Toward a New Common School Movement (2011-12-07)
Okay To Be Different (2011-11-21)
Don’t believe the education reformers (2011-11-18)
How Bill Gates can be an education hero (2011-11-17)
Stalinizing American Education (2011-11-11)
Chicken Sexers and Plane Spotters (2011-11-08)
Baby Lit for the Global Economy (2011-11-06)
Bill Gates: Popping Up with Compulsory Proactive Help (2011-10-25)
The Crocodile in the Common Core Standards (2011-10-25)
The Kick-off of Parents as Partners Week: Who is David Coleman and why should we care? (2011-10-21)
Where's the Beef? (2011-10-19)
Occupy Wall Street: What You Can Demand versus What You Must DO (2011-10-19)
Junot Diaz (2011-10-19)
Occupy Everything (2011-10-15)
Corporate Free Public Schools (2011-10-13)
Dear Teacher Education Colleagues (2011-10-11)
The Best Among Us; Join the Revolt On Wall Street or Stand On The Wrong Side of History (2011-10-02)
The dangers of building a plane in the air (2011-10-01)
Books that deserve to be banned Not that we take Banned Books Week lightly. But some classics are painful enough to ruin reading forever (2011-09-29)
Corporate Media and Larry Summers Team Up to Gut Public Education: Beyond Education for Illiteracy, Vulgarity and a Culture of Cruelty (2011-09-29)
Public and School Libraries in Decline: When We Need Them (2011-09-21)
The Rev. Jeremiah Wright Recalls Obama's Fall From Grace (2011-09-19)
What If? The State of Education on September 10, 2001 (2011-09-17)
Is Poverty a Death Sentence? (2011-09-14)
Walked Into a Lamppost? Hurt While Crocheting? Help Is on the Way New Medical-Billing System Provides Precision; Nine Codes for Macaw Mishaps (2011-09-13)
Improving schools with 'The Project' (2011-09-10)
School ‘Reform’: A Failing Grade (2011-09-07)
Opt Out or Give Up? Resistance in shades of grey (2011-09-02)
Warring learning theories: Choose yours (2011-08-29)
Down with Research Papers! (2011-08-29)
Make Room at the Table for Teachers (2011-08-16)
Slowpoke How to be a faster write (2011-08-14)
Reverence in Classroom Teaching (2011-08-09)
Sex, Lies, and SOS (2011-08-14)
Warning to Teachers and Students Whom IBM Wants to 'Friend' (2011-08-01)
Deselection of the Bottom 8%: Lessons from Eugenics for Modern School Reform (2011-07-26)
Gapwash (2011-07-20)
A leadership roundtable with advice to teachers from the Washington Post (2011-07-20)
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The Atlanta Scandal: Teaching in A Culture of Fear, Intimidation and Retaliation (2011-07-20)
How to Be a Person (2011-07-19)
How important is class size after all? (2011-07-13)
Kelly Gallagher Says Stop Readicide Now (2011-07-12)
Teach for America and Me: A Failed Courtship (2011-07-09)
Hearts and Minds (2011-07-04)
Firing Line: The Grand Coalition Against Teachers (2011-07-09)
Testing What Matters Least (2011-06-26)
Solitude and Leadership (2011-06-26)
Brainwashing the Corporate Way (2011-06-26)
Diane Ravitch, the Anti-Rhee (2011-06-24)
What You Can Learn from Looking at the Twitter Supporters of Jonathan Alter (2011-06-05)
DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #74: Ten Angry Boys (2011-06-01)
Teacherly Aphorisms to Live By--and Fight For (2011-05-30)
Beware of economists bearing education reforms (2011-05-30)
The Pedagogy of Poverty Versus Good Teaching (2011-05-31)
Poor Teaching for Poor Children --in the Name of Reform (2011-05-29)
The Service of Democratic Education (2011-05-28)
Arizona doesn't show it, but we need teachers like you (2011-05-28)
ACCOUNTABILITY ON STEROIDS (2011-06-07)
Wrong question, wrong answer (2011-05-25)
Mr. Duncan, you are a shining example (2011-05-23)
Ten things teachers need to reclaim their profession (2011-05-21)
Cuts For School Kids, But More Tax Dollars For Tests? (2011-05-20)
BBC Radio Hard Talk Interviews Bill Gates (2011-05-24)
People of Interest to the U. S. Press Secretary (2011-05-15)
Measuring teachers as a means of education reform! You have got to be kidding! (2011-05-11)
The Testing Machine (2011-05-10)
A Good Man or an International Competitor? (2011-05-07)
Educating everyone (2011-05-06)
This is class war! (2011-05-06)
Compare and Contrast: American Public Schools and Supermarkets (2011-05-06)
Compare and Contrast: American Public Schools and Supermarkets (2011-05-06)
Common Core Reading: An Exchange (2011-05-04)
Delivering Educational Products: The Job Formerly Known as Teaching (2011-05-03)
Clever rhetoric won’t save your undemocratic reform from failure: An open letter to Arne Duncan on the occasion of teacher appreciation week (2011-05-03)
'Degrees for What Jobs?' Wrong Question, Wrong Answers (2011-05-03)
This Teacher Is 'Mad as Hell' (2011-05-02)
The High Cost of Low Teacher Salaries (2011-05-01)
Poor Jane's Almanac (2011-04-24)
In a Data-Heavy Society, Being Defined by the Numbers (2011-04-23)
What Public School Parents Want in a New Federal Education Law (2011-04-21)
Welcome to Boot Camp (2011-04-17)
High Tech Testing on the Way: a 21st Century Boondoggle? (2011-04-12)
The Montessori Mafia (2011-04-09)
National Call to Disorganize and Disempower School Workers and others too (2011-04-01)
Educators Need to Start Opting Out (2011-04-01)
Experience makes teachers better —--we're worth the cost (2011-03-30)
Who’s Bashing Teachers and Public Schools and What Can We Do About It? (2011-03-30)
Samuel Clemens: 'Figures don’t lie, but liars figure.' (2011-03-29)
Policy, Advocacy, and the Power Potential of Educators (2011-03-28)
There's a Fire on the Mountain (2011-03-27)
Darling-Hammond: U.S. vs highest-achieving nations in education (2011-03-23)
Short Points on Good Teaching (2011-03-21)
The real qualities of teacher excellence (2011-03-17)
Providing Background for A 60 Minute Smear Job on Public Schools (2011-03-14)
Response to questions re: NCTE's 2011 Education Policy Platform (2011-03-14)
Betrayal: The Common Core, Liberals, NCTE, BYOB, and the Media (2011-03-10)
America Is NOT Broke (2011-03-08)
Degrees and Dollars (2011-03-07)
I Don't Want to Be a Teacher Any More (2011-02-27)
On the Importance Of Never Making It to Mars (2011-02-23)
Why Teachers Are Enraged (2011-02-21)
The Overselling of Education (2011-02-17)
The Great Accountability and 'World-Class Workforce' Scam (2011-02-16)
Why teacher bashing is dangerous (2011-02-16)
Lessons in Education from South Carolina? (2011-02-08)
A Monster Rubric to Define Who's Effective and Who's Not (2011-10-09)
Common Core State Standards: An Example of Data-less Decision Making (2011-02-01)
It makes no sense: Puzzling over Obama’s State of the Union Speech (2011-01-31)
State of the Union: Hogwash, Mr. President (2011-01-29)
Obama’s faulty education logic: What he said and failed to say (2011-01-31)
“There Are a Lot of Really Bad Teachers Out There” (2011-01-24)
The State of the Union’s Schools: What We'd Like to Hear from Obama, But Won't (2011-01-23)
21st Century Segregation: Inverting King's Dream (2011-01-12)
Has American education peaked? (2011-01-11)
Dr. Gabor Maté on the Stress-Disease Connection, Addiction, Attention Deficit Disorder and the Destruction of American Childhood (2011-01-02)
Battling the Bad Teacher Bogeyman (2011-01-02)
Expelled (2010-12-30)
All the News That’s Fit to Print (2010-12-14)
Teacher Professionalism: Pedagogy and Politics (2010-11-27)
Not Quite Trilingual (2010-11-22)
Closing of Speech at NCTE: Dismiss whatever insults your own soul (2010-11-18)
The Economic Bill of Rights (2010-11-18)
The Men Who Rule Us (2010-11-15)
What has happened to our profession? (2010-11-16)
Declaration of Professional Conscience. for Teachers (2010-11-12)
Apps, Schwas, and Bill Gates (2010-11-12)
Professional In-Service: Short Course (2010-11-11)
It's Complicated, Mr. Guggenheim; Lesley Off Base (2010-11-08)
Courts of Appeal respond to Roberts Court establishmentarianism (2010-10-31)
Why Should she Work for you? (2010-10-31)
Wasting for Stuporman (2010-10-27)
The Myth of Charter Schools (2010-10-25)
How to fix our schools (2010-10-16)
Are we still capable of educating for 'us-ness?' (2010-10-15)
Teach Creativity, Not Memorization (2010-10-15)
The Crisis of the Humanities Officially Arrives (2010-10-12)
Ants in Your Pants? You'll Probably Live Longer (2010-09-30)
Turning schools into robot factories (2010-09-29)
The Left Right Paradigm is Over: Its You vs. Corporations (2010-09-28)
Time to address child poverty and high dropout rates in Maine (2010-09-24)
A Teacher Quality Manifesto (2010-09-22)
Pledge to See a Movie During This National Emergency (2010-09-20)
Does Arne Duncan Have A Soul? (2010-09-20)
Fight for libraries as you do freedom (2010-09-17)
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Value-Added Assessment: Tool for Improvement or Educational Nuclear Option? (2010-09-17)
A Mathematician's Lament (2010-09-11)
Food Sovereignty (2010-09-05)
Moving Beyond Your Comfort Zone (2010-09-03)
Vermont State Board of Education Forsakes Independent Heritage and Says, Let Bill Do It (2010-09-02)
Obligatory Cute Little Kids Reciting Poetry (2010-08-29)
A Menu for the Rhetoric of the Global Economy Smokescreen (2012-03-17)
VALUE-ADDED ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT QUALITY RUBRIC (2010-08-25)
What the Bill Gates Crew Wants 8th Graders to Read (2010-08-23)
One Size Does Not Fit All (2010-08-19)
Testing and Miseducation (2010-08-18)
Education - even a blind pig occasionally finds an acorn (2010-08-15)
Hiring a Horse (2010-08-14)
Dogs: An unusual guide to school reform (2010-08-13)
A Larger Issue for Unions (2010-08-07)
Wall Street's Big Win (2010-08-06)
Why Has He Fallen Short? (2010-12-01)
Ramona the Brave (2010-07-31)
The Audacity of Arne Duncan (2010-07-25)
The Tantalizing Vagueness of Teaching (2010-07-11)
Annual Job Review Is 'Total Baloney,' Expert Says (2010-07-11)
In The Village, no one can hear you scream (2010-07-09)
1 in 10 Wear No MEMBERSHIP Badge: High Stakes Tests Encourages High Stakes Behavioral Modification? (2010-07-09)
Why I Love Susan Ohanian (2010-07-07)
The Meaning Of July Fourth For The Negro (2010-07-04)
Education Reform: An ignored problem, and a proposal (2010-06-28)
Chartering Disaster: Why Duncan's Corporate-Based Schools Can't Deliver an Education That Matters (2010-06-21)
The Learning Knights of Bell Telephone (2010-06-16)
Please Don't Shoot the Teachers (2010-06-21)
Reign of Terror (2010-06-13)
Adjectives of Order (2010-06-10)
Vermont vs The Feds (2010-06-09)
Fresh Hell (2010-06-09)
When the Best and Brightest Are Stealing Your Profession and Ruining Your Life (2012-03-18)
Pondering Legal Implications of Value-Added Teacher Evaluation (2010-06-02)
Updating No Child Left Behind: Change, or More of the Same? (2010-05-30)
Arne Duncan Calls Two Teachers (2010-05-27)
Mass Localism: How Might the Race to the Top Money Be Better Spent? (2010-05-24)
Education Reform: A problem, and a Proposal (2010-05-18)
Diane Ravitch on Being Wrong (2010-05-17)
Coming Soon to a School Near You: Big Ed (2010-05-12)
Extraordinary Interventions (2010-05-10)
Maybe Some Children's Authors Need a Ferocious Kick on Both Shins (2010-04-12)
Race to the Top: Delaware's Application for Initial Funding (2010-04-07)
MORE THAN A BOOK REVIEW NEEDED: A closer look at Diane Ravitch's book 'The Death and Life of the Great American School System' (2010-04-04)
When You Lie Down with Dogs, Keep the Anti-Itch Powder Handy (2010-04-16)
Pro-Child Checklist for Teachers in the 21st Century Economy (2010-03-26)
Data is King (2010-03-23)
Evidence-Based Practice, Best Practices, and Other Lies (2012-03-18)
A Debt of Gratitude (2010-03-22)
Data Warehousing Will Destroy Your Soul (2010-03-17)
The Newbery Winner (2012-03-12)
Big A and Little a (2010-03-02)
Making Toast (2010-03-02)
Yes, I'm Still Heated About This Whole Rhode Island Thing... (2010-03-02)
The educational conservative decries the hijacking of testing, accountability and markets. (2010-03-02)
The Death and Life of the Great American School System (2010-02-28)
President Obama Is Leading Us to the Global Cesspool of Corporate Standards (2010-02-23)
Life Among the 'Yakkity Yaks' (2010-02-23)
The Core Standards for Writing: Another Failure of Imagination? (2010-02-17)
Firing Silver Bullets or Blanks to Improve Schools? (2010-02-16)
Is Arne Duncan clinically a paranoid schizophrenic? (2010-02-09)
Teachers should graduate with a resume, not a transcript (2010-02-07)
The Super Bowl is back in Miami! (2010-02-06)
What Is Our Mission? And what is March 4 about, anyway? (2010-02-04)
Kvetcher in the Rye (2010-02-01)
Hidden privatisation in public education (2010-02-01)
My NCTE (2010-01-31)
Storytelling (2010-01-31)
Maybe the School to Prison Pipeline Starts in the Lavatory (2010-01-25)
Detroit Public Schools: Canary in the Coal Mine of Public Education (2010-01-23)
Health Care: Who Knows 'Best'? (2010-01-21)
Problems with Protocols: Checklists, although valuable in some settings, are a menace in others. (2010-01-21)
Teachers' Letters to Obama: The Sleeping Giant Stirs (2010-01-20)
Did Anyone Watch The Rosa Parks Story on TV? I Thought of the Situation with NCLB (2010-01-19)
How does it feel to be Reconstituted? (2010-01-18)
Origins and Purpose of No Child Left Behind and AFT/UFT Complicity (2010-01-18)
Rage against the vegetable garden (2010-01-16)
Got Fascism? Obama Advisor Promotes 'Cognitive Infiltration' (2010-01-16)
The No Lock People (2010-01-14)
Debunking the Case for National Standards - Alfie Kohn (2010-01-12)
Education Hell: Rhetoric vs. Reality: A Review (2010-01-08)
Spaces of Childhood and the Pedagogy of Place (2010-01-03)
Book Review: Wounded by School: Recapturing the Joy in Learning and Standing Up to Old School Culture (2010-01-01)
The Joy of Physics Isn't in the Results, but in the Search Itself (2009-12-29)
Red Flags, National PTA, and Common Core Standards (2009-12-29)
Take Back Your Education (2009-12-29)
Neo-liberalism and Charter Schools (2009-12-27)
Kim Peek, Inspiration for 'Rain Man, Dies at 58 (2009-12-27)
Are Americans a Broken People? Why We've Stopped Fighting Back Against the Forces of Oppression (2009-12-26)
What Does a Good School Look Like? (2010-01-03)
'You Can't Be President': Race, Class, and Memories of Obama (2009-12-18)
Another Wrong Diagnosis (2009-12-18)
Learning to Hate Learning Objectives (2009-12-14)
List-Making Idea for the Highly Qualified Teacher (2009-12-10)
The Education Agenda is a War Agenda: Sequel (2009-12-04)
Too big to (be made to) fail: Part III (2009-12-03)
Too big to (be made to) fail: Part III (2009-12-03)
Evidence-Based Practice, Best Practices, and Other Lies (2009-11-30)
The Season of Our Discontent: Poverty and Hunger in America (2009-11-29)
Wall Street Wants to Milk the UC Cash Cow* (2009-11-28)
Not about race? Prove it (2009-11-26)
The Urban Deerslayer (2009-11-25)
Over the Top: Winning Strategies for the Race to the Top Fund (2009-11-23)
Democracy, unions and Why I do not support the LEARN act either (2009-11-18)
LYONs and TIGRs and ELKS! Oh, My! (2009-11-18)
Education Reform: Wrong Diagnosis, So Wrong Cure (2009-11-16)
What's an M.B.A. Worth in Terms of Happiness? (2009-11-16)
Ten Things You Can Do to Reduce Incarceration (2009-11-06)
Dear Mr. President: What are you thinking? (2009-11-06)
Dreams of Better Schools (2009-11-02)
The Paper Chase (2009-11-01)
Not Your Mother's Literary Classics A Mash-Up of Comics and Literature (2009-10-29)
Changing the World (2009-10-27)
Maurice Sendak Tells Parents to Go to Hell (2009-10-21)
Stress, Control, and the Deprofessionalizing of Teaching (2009-10-20)
Diagnosis: What Doctors Are Missing (2009-10-19)
Fellow Inmates Ease the Pain of Dying in Jail (2009-10-18)
Changing Hearts and Minds: Think Globally, Suffer Locally (2009-10-14)
Bob the workaholic (2009-10-11)
Book Review: A Standardized Test Accomplice Spills the Beans (2009-10-11)
A Math Paradox: The Widening Gap Between High School and College Math (2009-10-09)
80 Ways to Cook Your Data (2009-09-22)
My Classroom Wall (2009-09-20)
MCLB (Much Curriculum Left Behind): A U.S. Calamity in the Making (2009-09-19)
Who, Me? (2009-09-17)
When a Parent’s ‘I Love You’ Means ‘Do as I Say’ (2009-09-15)
Rational Responses to High-stakes Testing and the Special Case of Narrowing the Curriculum (2009-09-15)
Turn Middle School Into ‘Boot Camp for Life' (2009-09-03)
Dehumanized: When math and science rule the school (2009-09-03)
When Reading Becomes Work: How Textbooks Ruin Reading (2009-08-30)
Race to the Top Comment (2009-08-27)
What If. . . ? (2009-08-27)
Neoliberalism, Charter Schools and the Chicago Model (2009-08-24)
The Gorilla in the Room (2009-08-22)
Change: Not more of same (2009-08-15)
Cogito ergo sum, baby (2009-08-13)
Unfulfilled Promises: Obama's Education Initiatives (2009-08-12)
Two Difficult Truths of Teaching (2009-08-09)
The Bird in the Window (2009-08-04)
No Choice About the Terminology (2009-07-29)
Eggs or Eggheads: Which does the U.S. Economy Really Need? (2009-07-28)
The regrets of adoption (2009-07-27)
Nothing for Nothing (2009-07-22)
National Education Association Ends 147th Annual Meeting... A critical summary of the NEA RA (2009-07-10)
Improvements in Teaching and Learning (2009-07-10)
On Assessment, Accountability, and Other Things That Go Bump in the Night (2009-07-06)
Teachers are key for students who like learning and remain curious (2009-07-06)
Education at Risk: Fallout from a Flawed Report (2009-07-06)
Improving Science Teaching in America's Schools (2009-07-05)
A Hot Beach Debate for Edu-Nerds Like Me (2009-07-04)
Portraits of Thinking: The Manual and Mental in General Surgery (2009-06-23)
Print and Deliver: Using The Peition (2012-03-11)
One Part Creativity: Zero Parts Recipe (2009-06-12)
Students Aren't Customers; Education Is Not a Commodity (2009-06-02)
Beware of Corporate Politicos Talking About Reform (2009-06-05)
America's Prisons: Is There Hope? (2009-05-26)
The Case for Working With Your Hands (2009-09-03)
Heidegger and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Get out of your cubicle, and get those cuticles dirty! (2009-05-21)
What Is To Be Done? (2009-05-20)
Catch the light and color when you take time to read (2009-05-15)
A path to building a functional public school system (2009-05-14)
Now I Know Just How Bad Open Court Can Be (2009-04-23)
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School Wars (2009-04-09)
To 'Pete,' Who's Lost in the Mainstream (2009-03-29)
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Recovering Teacher (2009-03-26)
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The Obamagogues' Liars and Our Future (2009-03-12)
Why education reforms have thus far failed And a proposal (2009-03-10)
Duncan and Obama: Airballs (2009-03-06)
The KULT of KIPP: An Essay Review (2009-03-05)
Crazy Talk (2009-03-01)
E Pluribus Unum? (2009-02-27)
No Dog Left Behind: The Fallacy of 'Tough Love' Reform (2009-02-11)
Dear Members and Friends of PEN: (2009-02-11)
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Obama's betrayal of public education? Arne Duncan and the corporate model of schooling (2008-12-18)
Flotsam and Jetsam: Movement Time (2008-12-15)
My Story (2008-12-05)
Help! I suddenly stopped going to work (2008-12-05)
The Child Trap (2008-11-19)
Optimism and Obamagogue (2008-11-14)
Homework for Obama (2008-11-10)
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With Malign Intent (2008-11-10)
New Rothstein Book on Accountability: Review and Discussion (2008-10-29)
An Open Letter To State Farm Insurance (2011-01-23)
Test mania and distractions take the joy out of learning (2008-10-26)
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Flotsam and Jetsam: Ann (2008-10-23)
Is a Dysfunctional Family a Presidential Prerequisite? (2008-10-22)
Education, Politics, and a Hunger Strike: A Social Movement's Struggle for Education in Chicago's' Little Village Community (2008-10-17)
The New Kindergarten (2008-10-16)
Math wasn’t Einstein’s strong point, but how bad was he? Very, very bad, says a ruthless new book... (2008-10-13)
M.T.A. (2008-10-03)
A Policy with Punch (2008-10-03)
Friend (2008-10-01)
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The Thinker (2008-09-22)
Get Ready, Get Set, Vote (2008-09-16)
Why an Undemocratic Capitalism Has Brought Public Education to Its Knees (2008-09-17)
Here's What Teachers Need (2008-09-12)
Great and Imperfect (2008-09-05)
Are Advanced Placement Courses Diminishing Liberal Arts Education? (2008-09-02)
The problem with praise: Author says self-esteem kick is hobbling society (2008-08-31)
Paul Goodman, 30 Years Later: Growing Up Absurd; Compulsory Mis-education, and The Community of Scholars; and The NewReformation—A Retrospective (2008-08-26)
Finding a Loony List While Searching for Literacy (2008-08-26)
Using a National Test to Commodotize Children (2008-08-21)
Accountability Meets the Corporate Achievement Gap (2008-08-17)
A Family Again, if Only for a Week (2008-08-17)
A Teachable Moment (2008-08-16)
Where Are They Now? (2010-11-07)
From Schoolhouse to Jailhouse: Doing Hard Time in Publici Schools (2008-08-10)
Economic Free Fall (2008-08-07)
The Trolls Among Us (2008-08-01)
Rosa Parks, Hail to Thee! (2008-07-30)
Chester Finn and Diane Ravitch Respond to AFT President Randi Weingarten (2008-07-25)
Teacher Voice in Today's Schools-Why Is It Critical? (2008-07-24)
AP Diary (2011-04-11)
16 Tons of Corporate School Bashing and No Teacher Protest (2008-07-11)
Half-Hour Lunch (2008-07-03)
Wolin, Democracy, and The Math Wars (2008-06-27)
Essential Rules for Writing (2008-06-18)
A Perpetual Student Pursues Education to the Nth Degree (2008-06-08)
Hallowell Connections (2008-06-04)
When Change Is Not Enough: The Seven Steps To Revolution (2008-05-28)
Preparing Our Children for Success (2008-05-27)
Commencement Address, Smith College, 2008 (2008-05-25)
Tracing the Roots of Kindergarten Readiness (2008-05-22)
The Riddle in the Front Row (2008-05-22)
Ending All Literary Crises (2008-05-15)
A Surgeon’s Path From Migrant Fields to Operating Room (2008-05-14)
Why I took a stand against WASL and why the state should abandon it (2008-05-08)
Advancing Beyond AP Courses (2008-05-06)
Words That Destroy Your Child's Future--And My Profession (2008-05-02)
America's Most Overrated Product: the Bachelor's Degree (2008-05-01)
Carl Chew Chimes In (2008-04-28)
Fighting for Recess: One Parent's Story (2008-04-24)
Crossing the Rubricon (2008-04-22)
Bitter? You Should Be! (2008-04-17)
Students Organizing Themselves?? (2008-04-09)
Keeping Priorities Straight, Even at the End (2008-04-09)
A Nation at Risk Twenty-five Years Later (2008-04-07)
High Standards (2008-04-06)
Book Review: Testing: The Real Crisis in Education (2008-04-03)
Quality-Managing the Country (2008-03-31)
Church of Scientology and Public Education (2008-03-27)
My 'Little Professor' (2008-03-24)
The Schools To War Collision: Whither the Resistance? (2008-03-22)
Schools must produce contributors (2008-03-21)
A Boy Named Sue, and a Theory of Names (2008-03-11)
Numbers Guy: Are our brains wired for math? (2008-03-08)
All Our Students Thinking (2008-02-21)
Cover the Material—Or Teach Students to Think? (2008-02-21)
Teaching for the Test (2008-02-17)
The Reality of Art (2008-02-13)
Of Snips and Snails and Snowplows (2008-01-31)
The U.S. Psycho-Pharmaceutical-Industrial Complex (2008-01-31)
Reading Emerson (2008-01-27)
The Colorado Coalition for Better Education: An Interview with Don Perl—Teacher, Advocate, & Activist for Better Education (2008-01-25)
Who Made Education Week the Gradebook of the Universe? (2008-01-24)
Musings on the Latest Crisis (2008-01-25)
Iraq Policy/NCLB Policy, With Liberty and Justice for the Privileged Few, Part 2 (2008-01-16)
The Secret to Raising Smart Kids (2008-01-14)
Iraq Policy/NCLB Policy, With Liberty and Justice for the Privileged Few (2008-01-02)
Children Learn What They Live (2007-12-30)
Twilight of the Books (2007-12-28)
Words and Phrases About School You will Hear Coming Out of the Mouths of Those Who Would Be President (2007-12-23)
Harmony Through Diversity (2007-12-15)
The Case Against Standardized Testing (2007-12-12)
Math Considerations (2007-12-11)
The Most Effective Learning Tool (2007-12-09)
Gaps (2007-11-20)
Triumph of the Wills (2007-11-19)
Good Things Never Die (2007-11-15)
Election '08 Meets The Great Education Myth (2007-11-15)
New York and Chicago: Same Script (2007-11-13)
Do We Need National Standards with Teeth? (2007-11-09)
Promises Worth Keeping (2007-11-06)
American Business Hasn’t A Clue (2007-11-01)
A Graduation Test: The Wrong Cure for Pennsylvania's Education Problems (2007-10-30)
The Uncanny Symphony of Oliver Sacks (2007-10-30)
Thirteen Ways of Looking at No Child Left Behind (2007-10-10)
Going Beyond Jonathan Kozol's Manifesto: How Can We Overcome the Weapons of Mass Destruction (2007-10-09)
Schools as Scapegoats (2007-10-01)
National Educational Assessment Rubbish (2007-09-30)
Next year in the garden: Famous Last Words (2007-09-09)
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Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation (2007-08-28)
Unplugged Schools (2007-08-23)
If I Were the Goddess of Education in the World… (2007-08-08)
Three Things a School Needs (2007-07-30)
Steve Orel: Don't Stand by my grave and weep. . . . (2007-07-13)
The Gregarious Brain (2007-07-04)
Distorted Statistics on Graduation Rates (2007-07-03)
Why a Student and Parent Testing Protection Act? (2007-06-29)
When States Seize Schools: A Cautionary Tale (2007-06-24)
Anti-capitalism in five minutes or (2007-06-23)
Frederick Taylor and Science of Education (2007-06-21)
The Body Electric (2007-06-19)
Education: the learning of skills we will never need? (2007-06-17)
Who Give's a Rat's Patootie About High School Calculus? (2007-06-13)
A Transformational Model of Public Education (2007-06-11)
A Diminished Vision of Civil Rights (2007-06-07)
When Should a Kid Start Kindergarten? (2007-05-30)
The Specter Haunting Your Office (2007-05-29)
THE FUGEES: Adjusting to America; Outcasts United (2007-05-21)
HOW DATA WILL SAVE US (2007-05-18)
The Graduates (2007-05-16)
Evil Empire: Is Imperial Liquidation Possible for America (2007-05-15)
Chess Champion Offers Success Strategies for Life (2007-05-15)
What's Wrong with Doctors (2007-05-14)
Little income makes big difference in schools (2007-05-09)
Review: Collateral Damage: How High-Stakes Testing Corrupts America's Schools (2011-06-01)
Young, Gifted, and Not Getting Into Harvard (2007-05-04)
A Call for Slow Schools: Rethinking Education in the Green Mountains (2007-05-11)
America Gone Wrong: A Slashed Safety Net Turns Libraries into Homeless Shelters (2007-04-27)
America Gone Wrong: A Slashed Safety Net Turns Libraries into Homeless Shelters (2007-04-02)
Brain Trust: Dr. Groopman On 'How Doctors Think' (2007-03-31)
Educating for Human Greatness: (2007-03-29)
Dinosaur Scientist to Lecture, Inspired 'Jurassic Park' Character (2007-03-28)
How the governor can advance 'career tech' (2007-03-27)
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Proposed Academy Would Serve ADHD Kids [MN] (2007-03-16)
High Stakes Tests: A Harsh Agenda for America's Children (2007-03-15)
The Overscheduled Child? (2007-03-14)
High-Stakes Testing is Putting the Nation At Risk (2007-03-12)
Why Can't We Talk about Peace in Public? (2007-03-01)
Travels to a Distant World (2009-11-05)
Worst Place to Be a Kid (2007-02-22)
No Child Left Behind as an Anti-Poverty Measure (2007-02-18)
Doubt (2011-08-05)
Goodbye teachers (2007-01-26)
Charles Murray and the Wall Street Journal: A Muddled Look at Education in the U. S. (2007-01-25)
The Importance of Play (2007-01-24)
The Low Road (2007-01-24)
Reform Trumps Race (2007-01-23)
Sister leaves behind a lifetime's worth of lessons (2007-01-18)
Aztecs vs. Greeks (2007-01-18)
A Declaration of Independence and a Bill of Rights for American Education (2007-01-17)
What's Wrong With Vocational School? (2007-01-17)
The New, Improved Educational Machine (2007-01-16)
Intelligence in the Classroom (2007-01-16)
School Daze (2007-01-12)
The Crisis in Urban Education: Resisting Neoliberal Policies and Forging Democratic Possibilities (2007-01-11)
Happiness 101 (2007-01-07)
Everything I Know About NCLB I Learned from Primetime Live (2007-01-05)
An Inconvenient Truth: (2007-01-03)
We Will Finally Get Mathematics Education Right (2007-01-02)
The Real Purity of Pure Science (2007-01-02)
Why Teacher Unions Are Good for Teachers and the Public (2006-12-22)
Swingin' in the Rain (2006-12-20)
Snapshots from School (2006-12-13)
Largest Science Teachers Organization Rejects Gore Video ... Why? (2006-11-28)
Teachers: The Ruby Slippers (2006-11-25)
Interrogating Kids About Literature: HELP! (2006-11-22)
Assignment: Persuasive Speech (2006-11-15)
Edward in Deep Water (Edward-the-Unready): Book Review (2006-11-09)
Grand Visions and Possible Lives (2006-11-07)
The Critical Distinction Between Science and Religion (2006-11-02)
America 101 (2006-11-01)
Joel Klein's Iron Curtain (2006-10-27)
A Plea to All Journalists (2006-10-26)
The Opposite of Wonderland (2006-10-26)
Classroom Assessment: A Brave New World (2006-10-24)
Improving College Aid (2006-10-19)
Notes From Sarah: Just Thinking at the End of a Long Day (2006-10-08)
Shop Class as Soulcraft (2006-10-05)
Beyond No Child Left Behind (2006-09-26)
Therapy That Keeps On the Sunny Side of Life: Rising Number of Therapists Focus on the Positive (2006-09-26)
Unstrung (2006-09-26)
12 Traps That Keep Progressives From Winning (2006-09-26)
A Good Day (2006-09-25)
The Ballad of Big Mike (2006-09-21)
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Education: Class Dismissed (2006-09-21)
Fascism Anyone? (2006-09-07)
Learning How to Break Rules (2006-09-06)
Running Fast (2006-09-02)
A Wordinista Strikes Back (2006-08-31)
Reclaiming The Issues: Islamic Or Republican Fascism? (2006-08-29)
Saturday, an Excerpt (2006-08-26)
Firewalling (2006-08-24)
My Ideal School Wouldn't Be A School (2010-10-23)
Attitudes can help clean school restrooms (2006-08-18)
Rotten Ralph Lives (2006-08-14)
Janice's Lesson (2006-08-03)
Educating to Narrow the Engineer Gap: Where rules are broken in the pursuit of learning (2006-08-02)
Educating to Narrow the Engineer Gap (2006-08-02)
The News Release I Couldn?t Find (2006-07-28)
What Oskar Hadn't heard of (2006-07-20)
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Instructions for Use (2006-07-10)
In a Professional Learning Community, Don't Touch the Children (2006-07-10)
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And Are They Happy? (2006-07-07)
Representing the Proposition that "Poverty Is Not an Excuse" (2006-06-24)
The Not Welcome Mat On Our School Doorstep (2006-06-22)
Walt Disney Stalks Your Child: (2006-06-16)
Executive Pay in the U.S. : CEOs still take the money and run (2006-06-15)
Want to learn? Get outside of your comfort zone (2006-06-12)
Stephen Colbert's Address to the Graduates (2006-06-10)
Return of a Golden Oldie: Bedfellows Issue Yet Another Manifesto (2006-06-08)
Voices of Dissent 4: Interview With Gloria Pipkin (2006-06-07)
Book Review: Reading Fads: Why Tom Friedman Does Not Compute (2006-06-01)
Why Supe Selection Is Like Judging a Dog Show (2006-05-29)
Agitation: The Essence of Democracy (2006-05-22)
Why Can?t Schools Be Like Businesses? (2006-05-16)
Scholarship Package Is $7,000 a Year And Subsidized Kilts (2006-05-11)
A Young Work in Progress Shattered on a Road in Iraq (2006-05-10)
An Open Letter to the Class of 2006 (2006-05-08)
"What kind of person enrolls a 2 yr old in a music class?" A Parent Responds (2006-05-04)
The Management Myth (2006-06-06)
Tales from the Competitive Marketplace Once Called Schools (2006-04-27)
Beyond Newark's School Yard (2006-04-23)
What Scientist Shortage? (2006-04-20)
Horrible Exams (2006-04-20)
New Education Jobs for the Global Economy (2006-04-19)
Schools aren't factories (2006-04-13)
Peter Campbell reviews "Oprah's Special Report: American Schools in Crisis" (Part 1): (2006-04-13)
Spellings Declares, "We've Waited Long Enough" (2006-04-12)
Apologies to Sandra Cisneros (2006-04-07)
My Billy (2006-03-29)
A Poverty of the Mind (2006-03-26)
Mediocrity: Deplorable, Yes. Until We Consider the Alternative (2006-03-22)
All Hail the SAT Snafu! (2006-03-22)
In Defense Of Big Schools (2006-03-16)
The Cab Ride I'll Never Forget (2006-03-09)
Two Views on What We Should Say About Testing (2006-03-06)
Principles of School Reform (2006-03-06)
Review: The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane (2006-03-07)
Recapturing the Kindergarten for 5-Year-Olds (2006-03-01)
Privatization or social control? (2006-02-23)
What Does "Privatization of Public Schools" Mean? (2006-02-23)
Letter (unpublished) to the San Diego Union Tribune (2006-02-23)
Beyond Statehood: The Vermont Sovereignty Declaration (2006-02-23)
The Impact of High Stakes Testing (2006-02-20)
Book Review: A Different View of Urban Schools: Civil Rights, Critical Race Theory, and Unexplored Realities (2006-02-20)
When a Teacher Speaks Out (2006-02-04)
The Party of Davos (2006-02-01)
Fixing School Isn't Everything (2013-01-19)
Shall We Dance? (The Privatization of Education) (2006-01-18)
Books Worth Remembering (2005-12-12)
National Security Requires Corporate Welfare? (2005-11-28)
Corporate greed advanced by school ratings (2005-11-27)
The List (2005-11-24)
Warning flags are flying over America?s public schools. (2005-11-22)
Charter School Performance Versus Charter School Accountability (2005-11-17)
Is There Life After Rankings? (2005-11-05)
Standardized students: The Problems with Writing for Tests Instead of People (2005-11-02)
Don't test well in school? Don't I know it! (2005-09-30)
Top Ten New School Rules (2005-09-09)
About the State of the State of Education (2005-09-06)
Still Separate, Still Unequal: America's eduational apartheid (2005-08-30)
Is That Penguin Stuffed or Real? (2005-08-26)
Some Are More Equal Than Others (2005-08-26)
What are we teaching our kids? (2005-08-21)
Our Impoverished View of Educational Reform (2005-08-20)
Refrains of the School Critics (2005-08-03)
Don't Know Much About (Black) History (2005-07-26)
Death and Wheatgrass (2005-07-14)
Weasel Words (2005-07-01)
A Father's Influence (2007-10-08)
A Better Investment than NCLB (2005-06-19)
Missing the Heart-Shaped Piece: How I Failed as a Middle School Latin Teacher (2005-06-20)
The Near Impossibility of Testing for Teacher Quality (2005-05-26)
Using Good Stories and Poems as Test Items Destroys Love of Literature (2008-02-20)
Resisting the Specter of Fierce Neatness (2005-04-28)
It's Time to Start the Slow School Movement (2005-04-28)
The Resistance: Casting a Broad Net of Influence (2013-02-10)
The Nature and Purpose of Education (2005-04-28)
Homeland Security Threat Advisory Teacher Rating System: 1043 U. S. Individual Teacher Return 2005 (2005-04-15)
Jack Welch is My Daddy (2009-11-05)
Education for the Second Vermont Republic?Or the Current One (2005-04-14)
Schools for Globalized Business: The APEC Agenda for Education (2005-04-11)
Bill Gates and the Corporatization of American"Public" Schools (2005-04-09)
An Academic Question (2005-04-05)
Saving Public Education ?- Saving Democracy (2005-03-31)
The Ad (2005-03-31)
B. .F. Skinner, Revisited (2005-03-28)
Insults to the Soul (2009-11-05)
Why Finland Is Tops in Education (2005-03-21)
Toward a Unified Theory of Black America (2005-03-20)
Learning from My Students (2005-03-14)
State of the Beat: How Are the Kids (2005-03-15)
DIBELS and other Standardista Horrors: On Asking Primary Graders If They've Read a Good Book Lately (2005-03-08)
Good to Great: A Commitment to Using Time Differently (2005-03-02)
The Nutrition Crusade (2005-02-27)
The Tale of the Iraqi Librarian Who Saved the Books She Loves (2009-12-09)
A Roar From the Tower (2011-01-10)
What Eight Knows (2005-02-07)
On Deer Whistles and Direct Instruction (2009-11-05)
The Progressive Lurking in the Bushes (2005-01-14)
The Loss of Literature (2005-01-10)
Emotional Intelligence (2005-01-07)
What Do You Believe Is True Even Though You Cannot Prove It? (2005-01-07)
The Rotten Apples in Education Awards of 2004 (2005-01-06)
My Secret Stash of Books on Tape (2005-01-03)
A Nation of Wimps (2004-12-13)
Open Court for Twenty-Nine (2004-12-08)
Marine Remembered for Dedication to Duty, Commitment (2009-11-29)
On the Necessity for Subversion (2004-12-02)
Down with Dentention! (2004-12-01)
A Math Purchase You Should Care About (2004-11-18)
Must Schools Fail? (2004-11-11)
Rebel (2004-11-11)
Neocon 'Flex Players' Await Bush's Second Term (2004-11-10)
A Brief Framework for Understanding the Anti-Public School Movement (2005-05-30)
Why Is Corporate America Bashing Our Public Schools: A Review (2004-11-05)
Holding Accountability Accountable: What Ought to Matter in Public Education (2004-10-28)
Fighting the Tests: A Practical Guide to Rescuing Our Schools (2004-10-24)
Stand Against the Word (2004-10-20)
Hairy Guy Lives! (2004-10-17)
The Praxis II is Pushing Good Teachers Out of the Profession (2004-10-10)
Let's Hope Young Athletes Learn from the Greeks (2009-11-05)
Asperger's Confounds Colleges (2004-10-06)
Where Have All the Children Gone? (2008-03-18)
Bubble Students and Teaching to the Statistic (2004-09-23)
Scorcher Book Reviews (2004-09-20)
When Business Plans Become Lesson Plans (2004-09-18)
Permanent Vacation (2004-09-17)
The Death of Hippocrates: When Medicine Turns Evil (2004-09-13)
The President's Reading Lesson (2004-09-09)
Taking the Public Out of Public Education (2004-09-08)
The Latest Poll (2004-09-07)
Social Justice Educator (2004-09-06)
News and Analysis on a Manhattan Institute Report (2004-09-04)
Dear Adult (2004-08-29)
Madame Cheney's Cultural Revolution (2004-08-26)
Teachers, Welcome Back to School (2004-08-18)
What Teachers Make, or You Can Always Go to Law School If Things Don't Work Out (2004-08-16)
Classroom Struggles: Rethinking Reading and the Brain (2004-08-10)
A Conversation with Susan Ohanian (2008-03-18)
Won't You Come Home, John Dewey? (2004-07-22)
When Will We Stand Up? (2004-07-11)
Is That Penguin Stuffed or Real? (2004-07-05)
A Blue-Ribbon Panel Weighs In on Students' Body Mass Index (2004-06-26)
The Details of Life (2004-06-23)
The Dumbing Down of America (2004-06-23)
The Fight of Our Lives (2004-06-21)
Not Just a Test (2004-06-21)
Incubation: A Neglected Aspect of the Composing Process? (2004-06-19)
The Business Roundtable is Alive and Well in Maryland First Grade Classrooms (2004-06-18)
Teachers as Eunuchs and Odalisques: The Not So Stealth Attack on Public Education (2004-06-16)
College Isn't For Everyone (2004-06-16)
Re-Assessing School Standards (2004-06-10)
If I Were Emperor of Education (2004-06-09)
Vouchers: The Right's Final Answer to Brown (2004-06-01)
Superintendent Debate: Do We Need Big Tests? (2004-06-01)
Six Phonics Myths Dispelled (2004-05-30)
Class and Schools: Using Social, Economic, and Educational Reform to Close the Black?White Achievement Gap (2004-05-14)
Preparing Culturally Competent Leaders (2004-05-13)
Hey, Click and Clack! A Puzzler for 'Car Talk' (2004-05-11)
Standards for Sarah (2009-11-05)
Voices of Courage in Education (2004-04-24)
A GIFT WITHIN REACH: Given college scholarships at age 4, the 20 former Krolik Elementary students had an opportunity, but many obstacles to face alon (2004-04-21)
Solitude and the Fortresses of Youth (2004-04-18)
Education Reform: Standardized Testing: Questions Gone Wild Aren't the Answer (2004-04-16)
Don't Toss Out Teens for Test Scores (2004-04-13)
The Liberal Reach: Teaching Humanities to the Poor (2004-04-06)
The K12 Primary School History Curriculum: A Participant's-eye View (2011-10-14)
The Medical Metaphor: Gross Anatomy and Third Graders (2004-03-22)
Book Review: The War Against Excellence: The Rising Tide of Mediocity in America's Middle Schools (2004-03-22)
Active & Compassionate Teens (2004-03-19)
Hire Ed (2004-03-18)
Public Schools, Minus the Public (2004-03-18)
Stenographers to the Powerful (2004-03-17)
What, Me Worry? (2004-03-15)
Out of the Mouths of Third Graders (2004-03-14)
Food Fighter (2004-03-07)
Informed Consent: An Experimental Subject's Bill of Rights (2004-03-03)
Harbor School Assignment: A Time That Changed You (2004-03-02)
On Unions and Education (2004-03-01)
Still Separate, Still Unequal: The Continuing Struggle for Racial Justice in American Education (2004-03-01)
"NAIVE Awards Paige with Highest Honor" (2004-02-28)
Open Cult (2004-02-26)
Would Shakespeare Get Into Swarthmore? (2004-02-23)
I Have a Dream (2004-02-20)
Politicians worry about job losses this year, not education (2004-02-19)
On Turning Down a Prize and Standing for Principle Instead (2004-02-18)
Stand Against "Readiness" (2004-02-17)
On Being a Hedgehog (2004-02-16)
San Francisco Superintendent's Plan for a Dream School Revealed as a Nightmare (2004-02-16)
Ed Watch by Julia Steiny DIAGNOSE, CHALLENGE, SUPPORT (2004-02-15)
Teens Nationwide Promote Abstinence (2004-02-14)
A Novel Approach to Evaluation (2004-02-05)
Joel Klein gives his opinion on New York's reading program (2004-02-05)
The Shrub Who Stole Learning (2005-11-27)
Same Folks, Different Strokes (2004-02-03)
Bush Flunks Schools (2004-02-02)
The Wal-Martization of Education (2010-11-29)
Making a Difference (2004-01-29)
COMMITTED TO LITERACY (2004-01-23)
The Three Little Pigs Buy the White House (2004-01-20)
The Standards Juggernaut (2004-01-17)
Turning the Accountability Tables: Ten Progressive Lessons from One 'Backward' State (2004-01-15)
What Are We Going To Do About the Abuse of Teachers? (2004-01-14)
The Rush to Outsourcing Means More Than the Loss of Jobs (2004-01-14)
Letter to the Commissioner (2004-01-12)
Fear is a form of propaganda (2004-01-09)
National and State Writing Tests: The Writing Process Betrayed (2004-01-07)
Boxed in: Education should be about more than storing facts (2004-01-06)
Let's Ask the President To Step Up To the Test (2004-01-07)
Court Rules Substance Can't Publish Whole Test: Schmidt Responds (2004-01-01)
Why California Second Graders May Score Poorly on Those Math Tests (2003-12-30)
Examining Data and Power Point Spin (2003-12-21)
Some Criteria for Intelligent Accountability (2003-12-18)
School Bullies (2003-12-12)
Meet Frank Smith (2003-12-04)
Juanita Doyon Launches Campaign for Washington State Superintendent of Public Instruction (2003-11-27)
Writing Like Crazy: a Word on the Brain (2003-11-21)
Reading, Writing, Resistance (2003-11-21)
Let's Weigh the Cow Some More (2003-11-08)
Getting the Most Out of Parent Teacher Conferences (2003-11-07)
Jedi Attackers Lose: Vouchers Don't Work (2003-11-05)
The Fire Side: Still Funny, Still On Target (2003-11-04)
The Rorschach Inkblot Test, Fortune Tellers, and Cold Reading (2003-11-04)
Why Our Schools Are Under Attack (2003-10-24)
Repudiating Voodoo Edunomics (2003-10-27)
The Trial (2003-10-14)
A Teacher Speaks Up (2003-10-11)
Heroes Who Don't Make the News (2003-10-10)
Who Moved My Stalag? (2003-10-07)
The 13th Bracey Report on Public Education (2003-10-03)
Full Disclosure Needed from Education Policy Makers (2003-09-27)
B. I. T. C. H. Black Intelligence Test of Cultural Homogeneity (2011-06-01)
School Commercialism, Student Health, and the Pressure To Do More With Less (2003-09-23)
What's In a Test? Ask Kids and Teachers in New York (2003-09-17)
Opposing the Governor, the Department of Education, Many Businessmen, The Boston Globe, the Boston Herald, President Bush, Secretary Paige. . . . (2003-09-15)
Open Court in PreSchool (2003-09-10)
The Collapse of the Middle Class (2003-09-04)
Talking Back to Educrat Spin (2003-09-04)
Willa Player, A Remarkable Woman (2003-08-30)
Here's How YOU Can Make a Difference (2003-08-29)
The Road to Trust (2003-08-22)
Less Teaching, More Testing (2003-08-12)
A Range of Views about Students Who Aren't Flourishing in School (2005-06-30)
Got Democracy?...A Modest Proposal For Parents (2003-07-16)
A Kentucky Principal Answers, "How Do I Know If My Child's School is Good?" (2003-07-16)
Confrontation and Redemption (2003-07-12)
Letters to the Editor (2003-07-10)
The Education of Sam Sanders (2003-07-07)
What Schools Need Is a Happiness Index (2003-06-29)
The Executioner's I.Q. Test (2003-06-29)
How to Demoralize the Faculty: A Six-Step Program that Works (2003-06-20)
A Reporter Takes the TAKS (2003-06-15)
High Stakes Tests: A Modest Proposal (2003-06-12)
Remembering the Missing on Graduation Day (2003-06-10)
Capitalism, Calculus, and Conscience (2011-08-05)
Bedfellows Issue Yet Another Manifesto (2003-05-22)
The Persistence of the 'Grammar of Schooling' (2003-05-21)
It's Time to Boycott (2003-05-17)
Bitter Battle Over Class Standards (2003-05-05)
I Told You So! (2003-04-30)
Students In a Fog (2003-04-28)
Far and away the best book on the National Reading curriculum. . . (2003-04-20)
MCAS Snow Job (2003-04-17)
All That Minnesota Kindergartners Need to Know (2003-04-15)
Maryland Set on Destroying Childhood (2003-04-14)
And a Teenager Shall Lead Them. . . . (2003-04-13)
When Learning Is the Hands-On Kind (2003-04-09)
Three Letters You Will Find Useful (2003-04-07)
Why Our Son Won't Attend STAR Tutoring Sessions (2003-04-02)
"April Foolishness: The 20th Anniversary of A Nation At Risk (2003-04-01)
These Schools Are Our Schools (2003-03-21)
Fixing Head Start: A Bone-Headed Idea (2003-03-20)
A Teacher Learns to Let Her Students Be (2003-03-18)
State-Mandated Testing: Why We Opt Out (2003-03-18)
With 19 Governors and 24 Corporations, You Can Have a University Funded by the U. S. Taxpayer (2003-04-08)
Bureaucrat's Field of Dreams (2003-03-05)
Let There Be No (2011-02-26)
When the Press Cites (2003-03-27)
The Straightjacket of Standardized Tests (2003-02-25)
No State Left Behind: a Modest Proposal (2003-04-07)
An FCAT Survivor Calls for Change (2003-02-25)
If You Cannot Find Osama, Test the Kids (2003-02-24)
National Reading Panel Gives Poor School Kids the Shaft (2003-02-24)
Take This Test and Shove It (2003-02-23)
What Did You Learn In School Today? (2003-02-22)
Goals 2000: What's in a Name? and Why Should We Still Care About It? (2011-08-05)
Enron and Education (2003-04-07)
The Federal Hickory Stick For Teaching Reading (2003-02-20)
What's Good for Globalized Business is Good for Third Graders (2009-11-05)
Take This Test and Shove It (2003-02-21)
"I am in Birmingham because injustice is here."
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. (2003-02-13)
First Rule in Evaluating Schools: Check the Vomit Index (2003-02-11)
Test Prep for the FCAT (2003-02-11)
And a Teenager Shall Lead Them (2003-02-01)
Victory in Chicago!! (2003-01-28)
Silence Kills: Your Kid Could Be Next (2009-11-05)
Selling Our Students Short (2003-01-16)
Concerning the Matter of a Desk Audit (2003-01-03)
Start the Year Right--And Improve Your Health (2002-12-31)
Out of School (2002-12-29)
The Difference Between Corporations and Schools (2002-12-25)
Enabling Inequality in Education (2002-12-25)
Ask a Kindergartner: What Are the Qualities of a Good Teacher? (2002-12-22)
School Committee Should Escalate MCAS Opposition (2002-12-22)
Vultures of a Feather Flock Together (2002-12-18)
Life in the Twenty-First Century without Analytical Algebra (2002-12-17)
Jobs and Education (2002-12-16)
Legislation Won't Make Children Learn (2002-12-14)
What Does 'Being Smart' Mean? (2003-05-17)
Deschooling Society (2002-12-06)
The Next Step After CASE (2002-12-06)
Chicago Ends CASE Tests (2002-12-06)
The Sacredness of Money (2002-12-04)
Notes on Japan from an American Schoolteacher (2012-06-28)
Stop the Abuse (2002-12-07)
Do We Really Want Rigor For Our Kids? (2003-01-02)
A Horse Called NCLB (2002-12-02)
Misguided Reforms Won't Educate Poor Children (2009-11-05)
Frustration in the Classroom (2005-02-20)
Keeping One's Job (2002-11-21)
A Modest Proposal (2002-12-25)
How the Government Can Screw Up A Child's Love of Books (2002-11-21)
Questions the New York Times Doesn't Choose to Answer (2002-11-19)
Fear and Loathing ... and Preschool (2009-12-09)
Get the F(aith) Out (2002-11-02)
Corporate Scriptwriters Call State School Boards? Tunes (2011-06-02)
Let's Turn the Tables (2003-04-18)
Ten Commandments of No Child Left Behind (2002-10-14)
Never Never Land (2002-10-09)
Codicil Needed for No Child Left Behind Legislation (2002-10-08)
Let Them Go to Prison (2002-10-08)
Who's a Liar? (2002-10-06)
The Crayola Curriculum: Shocking Secrets Revealed (2002-10-10)
In Defense of Massachusetts Public School Children (2002-09-28)
Governor Barnes Announces
Pre-natal High-stakes Test (2002-09-23)
Leave No Legislator Behind (LNLB) (2002-09-23)
Should Education Be More Like Medicine? Ask Any Patient (2002-09-19)
"Reading First" Removes Freedom to Teach (2002-09-18)
Looking at Tests
Can Drive You Mad (2002-09-17)
Washington Mothers March Against WASL (2002-09-08)
Who Give's a Rat's Patootie About High School Calculus? (2002-09-08)
Coming Soon to a School Near You (2002-09-07)
Quote to Remember (2009-12-09)
Slap Their Little Hands into Phonics (2002-08-31)
e. e. cummings Answers Standardistas (2002-08-26)
Guest Commentary (2002-08-25)
Guest Commentary (2002-08-17)
Perhaps Governors and Corporate Leaders Should Talk to Parents (2002-08-06)
Where Are the Parents? (2004-02-29)
When I Raised My Hand in Class (2009-12-09)
Who's Watching the Data Watchers? (2002-07-12)
Blowing the Whistle on Science Shams--in Surgery and in Reading (2002-07-10)
Hope on Three Legs (2004-02-21)
A Few Questions for Standardistas (2002-06-12)
An 11 year-old writes to the President about H.R. 1350(IDEA) (2004-01-11)
Reading First Expert Quiz (2002-06-06)
Parents Devoted To a Disabled Child (2004-01-08)
National Reading Tribunal News Channel (2002-09-18)