"What I Did Not Recant or Abandon," Bridging Differences, March 9, 2010.
"Why I Changed My Mind About School Reform," Wall Street Journal, March 9, 2010.
"First, Let's Fire All the Teachers!" Huffington Post, March 2, 2010.
"Closing Schools Solves Nothing," Bridging Differences, February 2, 2010.
"Arne Duncan at ED: Year One," Bridging Differences, January 26, 2010.
"Today's Education 'Reforms' Were Not Martin Luther King's Dream," Huffington Post, January 18, 2010.
"We've Always Had National Standards," Education Week, January 14, 2010.
"New York City Charter Schools Need to Focus on the Neediest," New York Daily News, January 13, 2010.
"The New Era of Greed," Bridging Differences, January 5, 2010.
"What's Wrong With Merit Pay?" Hoover Digest 2009, no. 4.
"The Race to Nowhere," Bridging Differences, December 15, 2009.
"Critical Thinking? You Need Knowledge," Boston Globe, September 15, 2009.
"Obama's Awful Education Plan," Huffington Post, August 23, 2009.
"The Partnership for 19th Century Skills," Common Core blog, July 6, 2009.
"Time to Kill 'No Child Left Behind,'" Education Week, June 10, 2009.
"Why Education Is Not the Civil Rights Issue of Our Time," Bridging Differences, May 26, 2009.
"Data-Driven Nonsense," Bridging Differences, May 19, 2009.
"What 'The Harlem Miracle' Really Teaches," Bridging Differences, May 12, 2009.
"Are Hollywood and the Internet Killing Reading?" Forbes.com, February 17, 2009.
"Britain's Language Police," Forbes.com, December 27, 2008.
"We Shouln't Pay Kids to Learn," Forbes.com, October 17, 2008.
"A Flawed Reform," New York Sun, December 17, 2007.
"What's So Great About Chinese Education?" Huffington Post, May 28, 2007.
"History's Struggle to Survive in the Schools," Magazine of History 21, no. 2 (April 2007), pp. 28-32.
"'Tough Choices': Radical Ideas, Misguided Assumptions," Education Week, January 17, 2007.
"Why Teacher Unions Are Good for Teachers and the Public," American Educator, Winter 2006-2007.
"The English in Us," with Michael Ravitch, New York Sun, December 15, 2006.
"Bridging Differences: A Dialogue Between Deborah Meier and Diane Ravitch," with Deborah Meier, Education Week, May 24, 2006.
"Improving Standards and Opportunity for Higher Education in Pakistan," paper, First International Symposium on Issues in Higher Education in Pakistan, United Nations, December 5-6, 2005.
"Recalling Michael Lynch," New York Sun, March 24, 2005.
"You Can't Say That," Wall Street Journal, February 13, 2004.
"Leaving Reality Out: How Textbooks (Don't) Teach About Tyranny," American Educator, Fall 2003.
"Does Education Really Need More Innovation in the Age of Scientifically Based Research?" Presentation, Office of Innovation and Improvement, U.S. Department of Education, April 15, 2003.
"What If Research Really Mattered?" Education Week, December 16, 1998.
"The Great Technology Mania," Forbes.com, March 23, 1998.
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Interviews and Events: Videos, Articles, and Transcripts
Interview with Steve Inskeep at NPR: "Former 'No Child Left Behind' Advocate Turns Critic," March 2, 2010.
NRO Radio, interview with John J. Miller, March 2, 2010.
Reading at the GothamSchools celebration (2009)
Interview with John Merrow: "Race to the Top: Podcast--Play Money" (2009)
Interview with John Merrow: "Privatization Will Not Help Us Achieve Our Goals" (2009)
Interview with Jon Stewart about The Language Police (2003)
Interview with Terri Gross about The Language Police (2003)
Interview on the Diane Rehm Show about Left Back (2000)
Interview with Brian Lamb about Left Back (2000)
