2019
- How Teach for America Evolved Into an Arm of the Charter School Movement (Propublic 6/18/19)
- The Implicit Punishment of Daring to Go to College When Poor (NYT 3/28/19)
2018
- DeVos Will Join Turning Point USA, Conservative Campus Group, at Conference (CHE 7/23/18)
- The Numbers That Explain Why Teachers Are in Revolt (NYT 6/4/18)
- Matt Bevin’s Revenge? (New Republic 5/4/18)
- "A Nation at Risk" and the Re-Segregation of Schools (IHE 5/4/18)
- The Corporate Plan to Groom U.S. Kids for Servitude by Wiping Out Public Schools (Naked Capitalism 4/9/18)
- Duncan Revises Again: Courage and Betsy DeVos (Curmudgucation 4/2/18)
2017
- CUNY to Revamp Remedial Programs, Hoping to Lift Graduation Rates (NYT 3/19/17)
- The Next Step in the Trump-DeVos Plan to Send Taxpayer Money to Religious Schools (Mother Jones 3/3/17)
2016
- Democrats Revise Education Platform; Step Back From Phony “Reform” (Academe Blog 7/13/16)
- Spending on Prisons and Schools (Academe Blog 7/9/16)
- A Sea of Charter Schools in Detroit Leaves Students Adrift (NYT 6/28/16)
- Kansas Parents Worry Schools Are Slipping Amid Budget Battles (NYT 5/31/16)
- The Education System Is Rigged Against Low-Income Students, Even In Kindergarten (Huff Po 5/26/16)
- Vergara Reversed! (Academe Blog 4/14/16)
- Charter Schools Are Suspending Kids More Than Other Schools, And That’s A Problem (Huff Po 3/16/16)
- 'Got to Go': High-Performing Charter Schools Shed Students Quickly (Guardian 2/21/16)
- Why Do the Media Cry “Crisis” About Public Schools? Why Do They Ignore the Voices of Teachers? (Diane Ravitch 1/13/16)
- We’re Onto the Phony Education Reformers: Charter School Charlatans and Faux Reformers Take it on the Chin (Salon 1/9/16)
2015
- Student Press Censorship, 2015 (Academe Blog 12/30/15)
- Here's The Devastating Way Our College System Fails Poor Kids (Huff Po 12/17/15)
- House Restores Local Education Control in Revising No Child Left Behind (NYT 12/2/15)
- Study Finds Race is Growing Explanatory Factor for SAT Scores in California (IHE 10/27/15)
- Obama Administration Calls for Limits on Testing in Schools (NYT 10/24/15)
- Let’s Take it to Michelle Rhee and Bill Gates: Here’s How Democrats Should Talk About Education Tonight (Salon 10/13/15)
- Lawmakers Move to Limit Government’s Role in Education (NYT 7/8/15)
- Federal Privacy Bill a 'Missed Opportunity' for Obama Administration, legal scholars say (IHE 3/25/15)
- Pearson Monitoring Social Media for Security Breaches During PARCC Testing (Wa Po 3/14/15)
- Essay on Teaching the Great Books to Low-Income High School Students (IHE 1/9/15)
- Intervening With High Performing, Low-Income Students Changes Enrollment Patterns, Study Finds (IHE 1/5/15)
2014
- Rage Against the Common Core (NYT 12/27/14)
- Many Want More Money; UC Should Get In Line (LAT 12/7/14)
- Public Charter Schools That Failed to Meet Texas Standards Are Still Operating (NYT 11/15/14)
- What it Really Means to be a Public School Educator Today (NYT 11/12/14)
- Behind the Campaign To Purge Textbooks of "Pro-Muslim Bias" in Texas (io9 11/12/14)
- States Listen as Parents Give Rampant Testing an F (NYT 11/9/14)
- Philadelphia’s School Reform Debacle: Despised Governor Crosses the Line (Salon 10/7/14)
- In Washington State, Political Stand Puts Schools in a Bind (NYT 10/4/14)
- School Board Defies Protest of Hundreds to Pass Review of US History Curriculum (Guardian 10/3/14)
- De Blasio Plans Revised Code for Discipline in Schools (NYT 9/28/14)
- Venture Capitalists Are Poised to ‘Disrupt' Everything About the Education Market (The Nation 9/25/14)
- In Colorado, a Student Counterprotest to an Anti-Protest Curriculum (NYT 9/23/14)
- Syracuse U. Curbs Work with Program to Help Urban Youth Attend College (IHE 9/23/14)
- High School Students Care More About Free Speech than Adults, Poll Finds (Guardian 9/17/14)
- With Tech Taking Over in Schools, Worries Rise (NYT 9/14/14)
- Truancy Rates are Higher Among California's Low-Income Students, Report Says (LAT 9/12/14)
- The Original Charter School Vision (NYT 8/30/14)
- Will a Florida County's Bold Decision to Opt Out of State Testing Catch Fire? (Huff Po 8/29/14)
- Innovative Columbia Program Uses Humanistic Knowledge to Help Under-served High School Students Prepare for College (NYT 8/4/14)
- “Stupid, Absurd, Non-Defensible”: New NEA President Lily Eskelsen García on the Problem with Arne Duncan, Standardized Tests and the War on Teachers (Salon 7/30/14)
- Commitment in Texas to Fiscal Restraint Adds Burden for Education (NYT 7/10/14)
- University of California Certifies Apex Learning Courses for Freshman Admission (Digital Journal 6/25/14)
- Judge Strikes Down California’s Teacher Tenure Laws: A Made-Up Statistic Helped Him Reach the Decision (Slate 6/12/14)
- K-12 Tenure Declared Unconstitutional in California: Could Higher Ed be Next? (Changing Universities 6/11/14)
- “Strict Scrutiny” of Vergara Ruling a Setback for California Teachers (InterACT 6/11/14)
- Why That Ruling Against Teacher Tenure Won't Help your Schoolchildren (LAT 6/11/14)
- What Was the Evidence in the Vergara Case? Who Wins? Who Loses? (Diane Ravitch 6/11/14)
- Why Do Most Black and Latino Students Go to Two-Year Colleges? (The Atlantic 5/22/14)
- Doing What’s Easy: Comments on “Who Gets to Graduate?” (The EduOptimists 5/18/14)
- Schools v. Prisons: Education's the way to Cut Prison Population (Mercury News 5/16/14)
- Data Mining Your Children (Politico 5/15/14)
- Texas' Top 10% Plan May Just be Shifting Elite Students from Private to Public Colleges (CHE 4/22/14)
- Lack of preparation for Calif. high school graduates raises concerns (Daily Bruin 4/9/14)
- U.S. Students Strong at Problem Solving, but Trail Other Nations (NYT 4/1/14)
- How Businesses Use Your SATs (NYT 3/29/14)
- Bending the Prison Cost Curve (CBP 3/26/14)
- Peter Taylor to Step Down in April (LAT 3/25/14)
- For Parents and Children, A UC Chain is Broken (SacBee 3/16/14)
- Wyoming Chooses Fossil Fuels Over Science Education (Salon 3/14/14)
- David Welch: The Man Behind Vergara v. California (Capital and Main 2/20/14)
- Scrutiny in California for Software in Schools (NYT 2/20/14)
- Teachers & Children Last: California Trial Showcases the Corporate War on Public Education (FDL 2/19/14)
- Common Core Curriculum Now Has Critics on the Left (NYT 2/16/14)
- For Some Elite Colleges, It's Advanced Placement vs. Gen-Ed (CHE 2/12/14)
- Improving Economic Diversity at the Better Colleges (NYT 2/5/14)
- The Latest Dangerous Education “Reform”: Tracking Students’ Data (Salon 1/30/14)
- Intensive Small-Group Tutoring and Counseling Helps Struggling Students (NYT 1/26/14)
- Lawsuit Takes on California Teachers' Job Protections (LAT 1/25/14)
- Child Care and Preschool in the Governor’s Proposed 2014-15 Budget (CA Budget Bites 1/22/14)
- Bracing for Demographic Shifts, Colleges Face Tough Trade-Offs (CHE 1/19/14)
- What a DC Fly on the Wall Probably Didn't Hear (UCLAFA 1/19/14)
- The White House Summit (IHE 1/15/14)
- Best Path to Growth? (THE 1/9/14)
- Common Core Close Reading Comes to California (EdWeek 1/8/14)
2013
- Exposing the Education “Reformers’” Big Lie (Salon 12/20/13)
- Teachers Seek to ‘Reclaim’ Education (FDL 12/14/13)
- California State Auditor Says Education Is at “High Risk” (AllGov 12/11/13)
- Tensions Rise as Indiana Schools Chief and Governor Clash Over New Agency (NYT 12/8/13)
- Professors in Deal to Design Online Lessons for A.P. Classes (NYT 12/5/13)
- What You Need to Know About the International Test Scores (Huff Po 12/3/13)
- College Admission Offers May Get Easier to Obtain (LAT 11/25/13)
- Texas Education Board Flags Biology Textbook Over Evolution Concerns (NYT 11/22/13)
- Texas OKs Controversial Environmental Science Textbook (Huff Po 11/22/13)
- The Obamas' New Focus (IHE 11/13/13)
- U.S. Reading and Math Scores Show Slight Gains (NYT 11/7/13)
- Rising to the Challenge: Why Greater Investment in K-12 Education Matters for California’s Students (CBP 10/13)
- "Mediocrity" V. "Cozy, Lucrative Monopoly": Rsp to NYTimes Critique of US Education (HASTAC 10/27/13)
- The Biggest Fallacy of the Common Core Standards (HuffPo 8/24/13)
- Surprise! Poverty and Inequality shapes K-12 school Achievement more than does "lazy teachers" (Salon 6/3/13)
- Teachers Against Educational Taylorism (Jacobin 4/13)
- How Helpful are Placement Tests (IHE 2/27/13)
- Flipping the K-12 Classroom (SacBee 2/19/13)
- Warning about the Dangers of the Testing Regime in K-12 (IHE 2/19/13)
- A High School Teacher Warns College Teachers About the Effects of K-12 "Reform" (WaPo 2/9/13)
- Thanks To Budget Cuts California Giving Up on Reducing K-12 Class Sizes (SacBee 1/20/13)
2011
- New School Year Brings Steep Cuts in State Funding for Schools (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities 9/9/11)
- State aid to education down, down, down (Remapping Debate 9/7/11)
- The "Shock Doctrine" comes to your neighborhood classroom (Salon 9/6/11)
- In Texas Schools, Perry Shuns Federal Influence (NYT 9/3/11)
- In Classroom of Future, Stagnant Scores (NYT 9/3/11)
- Education secretary says he feels ‘very badly’ for children in Texas schools (The Lookout 8/18/11)
- The crisis facing Britain's education system (Guardian 8/16/11)
- Edu-Traitor! Confessions of a Prof Who Believes Higher Ed Isn't the Only Goal (HASTAC 8/6/11)
- Michelle Rhee hires Democrat, continues working with Republicans (Salon 6/6/11)
- Latest Budget Victim: Adult Education (Bay Citizen 5/30/11)
- A Time for Deeper Learning: Preparing Students for a Changing World (Alliance for Excellent Education 5/26/11)
- The Deep Pockets Behind Education Reform (Forbes 5/25/11)
- Behind Grass-Roots School Advocacy, Bill Gates (NYT 5/21/11)
- Dennis Walcott is more of the same: Bloomberg's new chancellor once again lacks classroom experience (NYDaily News 4/8/11)
- "I am sorry I am a teacher" (CarFamily 4/3/11)
- Today's teacher layoffs threaten tomorrow's college classrooms (LAT 4/3/11)
- California's Schools: Winning the Race to the Bottom (CBP 1/31/11)
2010
- California's Education Hypocrisy Index (Schrag, CPR 12/20/10)
- Union Busting as Educational Reform (HuffPo 12/20/10)
- Teacher-Led Schools Responding to Ed Crisis (HuffPo 11/13/10)
- Brown Faces Challenges with his Education Agenda (CA Watch 11/12/10)
- Are Teacher's Unions Losing Power? (LAT 11/7/10)
- NJ Governor Wants to End Teacher Tenure (NYT 9/29/10)
- "Value Added" Evaluation Spreads Among School Districts (NYT 9/1/10)
- School Districts May Delay Rehiring Teachers with Federal Money (NYT 8/18/10)
- Chicago Charter Schools Have Serious Deficit Problems (NYT 8/13/10)
- Obama Responds to Critics; Defends Neo-Liberal Agenda for Schools (NYT 7/29/10)
- California Becomes Finalist in Race to the Bottom (LAT 7/28/10)
- Washington D.C. Fires 241 Teachers Based on Student Standardized Test Results (NYT 7/24/10)
- To Fund Wars and the Race to the Top Arne Duncan is willing to cut Food Stamps (FDL 7/17/10)
- Does Anyone in Sacramento Actually Care About the Schools? (Schrag, CPR 7/16/10)
- California Near the Botton in Support for Schools (CBP 6/30/10)
- Obama's Neo-Liberal Plan for Public Ed (ISR 5/10)
- How Obama's School Reforms Hurt Schools (Diane Ravitch, The Nation 5/27/10)
- Businesses Need Good Schools to Survive (Calitics 5/25/10)
- Districts Cancelling Summer School Across the Nation (HuffPo 5/23/10)
- Texas Approves Right-Wing Curriculum (Huffpo 5/21/10)
- Teachers Face "Worst Job Market Since the Great Depression" (NYT 5/20/10)
- Hedge Funds and Charter Schools (NYT 5/10/10)
- New Jerseyans Vote to Destroy Public Schools (NYT 4/21/10)
- Killing Public Education (Boston.com 4/6/10)
- Arnold's Budget Cutting Schools Even More (CBP 3/30/10)
- Over 23,000 Pink Slips Sent to California Teachers (Calitics 3/15/10)
- The Race to the Bottom--Mass School Closures in Communities of Color (Calitics 3/9/10)
- Firing Teachers; Destroying Public Education (Calitics 3/9/10)
- CA Anti-Tax Revolts Dooming Public Schools (Guardian 3/5/10)
- K-12 Protesters See Through Arnold's Claims on Education Spending (CBP 3/4/10)
- California Spends Less on Each Student Than Any Other State (CBP 2/24/10)
- California Schools Face Mass Layoffs (Calitics 2/23/10)
- California Public Education Faces Funding Cliff (Calif Watch 2/10/10)
- With Stimulus Funds Running Out, States Face New Budget Crises (NYT 2/7/10)
