Diane Ravitch

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Selected Articles by Diane Ravitch

“Ravitch on Teachers and Her Critics,” The Answer Sheet, Washington Post, July 8, 2010.

“Opinion: Don’t Close Schools, Fix Them,” AOL News, June 29, 2010.

“In Need of a Renaissance: Real Reform Will Renew, Not Abandon, Our Neighborhood Schools” (book excerpt), American Educator, Summer 2010.

“The Great Accountability Hoax,” Bridging Differences, Education Week, June 15, 2010.

“Why I Changed My Mind,” The Nation, June 14, 2010.

“Obama’s Right-Wing School Reform,” New York Review of Books, June 10, 2010.

“Why Does Everyone Think CEOs Have the Answers?” The School Administrator (AASA), June 2010.

“Just Say No to Race to the Top,” Bridging Differences, Education Week, May 25, 2010.

“Schools 4 $Sale: Inquire at U.S. DOE,” Bridging Differences, Education Week, May 18, 2010.

“It’s Time to Give Scrutiny to Foundations’ Efforts to Remake Education” (book excerpt), Chronicle of Philanthropy, May 16, 2010 (subscription required).

“A Double Standard on Test Scores,” Bridging Differences, Education Week, May 11, 2010.

“High-Stakes Testing” (in series “Twelve Things the World Should Toss Out”), Washington Post, May 6, 2010.

“No Bad Idea Left Behind,” The American Interest, May-June 2010.

“Testimony of Dr. Diane Ravitch, Public Hearing on Charter Schools,” Senate Standing Committee on Corporations, Authorities, and Commissions, Albany, NY, April 22, 2010.

“Letter to the Honorable Members of the Florida Legislature,” posted April 6, 2010.

“A New Agenda for School Reform,” Washington Post, April 2, 2010.

“New York Education Officials Are Lying to the State's Schoolkids,” New York Daily News, March 31, 2010.

“‘T’ Is for ‘Texas Textbooks,’” Daily Beast, March 14, 2010.

“The Big Idea—It's Bad Education Policy,” Los Angeles Times, March 14, 2010.

“What I Did Not Recant or Abandon,” Bridging Differences, Education Week, 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, Education Week, February 2, 2010.

“Arne Duncan at ED: Year One,” Bridging Differences, Education Week, 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, Education Week, January 5, 2010.

“What's Wrong With Merit Pay?” Hoover Digest 2009, no. 4.

“The Race to Nowhere,” Bridging Differences, Education Week, December 15, 2009.

“Critical Thinking? You Need Knowledge,” Boston Globe, September 15, 2009.

“All Twitter, No Twain,” Hoover Digest 2009, no. 3.

“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, Education Week, May 26, 2009.

“Data-Driven Nonsense,” Bridging Differences, Education Week, May 19, 2009.

“What ‘The Harlem Miracle’ Really Teaches,” Bridging Differences, Education Week, 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 Shouldn'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.

Introduction to the 2000 edition of The American Reader (New York: HarperCollins, 2000).

“What If Research Really Mattered?” Education Week, December 16, 1998.

“The Great Technology Mania,” Forbes.com, March 23, 1998.

“Defining Literacy Downward,” New York Times, August 28, 1996.

“What Is Democracy and How It Should Be Taught in the Schools,” Free Society Seminar, American Federation of Teachers' Education for Democracy / International Project, November 1989.

“Tot Sociology; Or What Happened to History in the Grade Schools,” American Scholar 56, no. 3 (Summer 1987), pp. 343-354.

“Bring Literature and History Back to Elementary Schools,” in The Schools We Deserve (New York: Basic Books, 1985), pp. 75-79.

“A Good School,” in The Schools We Deserve (New York: Basic Books, 1985), pp. 275-294.

“Scapegoating the Teachers,” in The Schools We Deserve (New York: Basic Books, 1985), pp. 90-99.

“The Uses and Misuses of Tests,” in The Schools We Deserve (New York: Basic Books, 1985), pp. 172-181.

“Programs, Placebos, Panaceas,” Urban Review, April 1968.

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