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PARENTS' CONCERNS, INVOLVEMENT ROUTINELY
DISMISSED BY TRADITIONAL PUBLIC SCHOOLS
By Onnie Shekerjian
TownHall.com Reader Comment, February 24, 2002
BROTHERLY LOVE, BAD SCHOOLS
The battle to improve Philadelphia's education system.
by Pete Du Pont, Tuesday, November 6, 2001.
OUT OF THE COMMUNITY CHEST
By Lori Yaklin, The Washington Times, August 6, 2001
EDISON'S FATE, THE CITY'S FUTURE, By Chris Whittle. New York Times, April 7, 2001.
BLUEPRINT FOR EDUCATION REFORM
By Lisa Graham Keegan,
Tucson Citizen, February 5, 2001
WHAT THE SCHOOLS HAVE FORGOTTEN
By William J. Bennett
The Washington Post, June 22, 2000
HELP POOR KIDS, NOT POOR SCHOOLS
By Diane Ravitch
The Wall Street Journal, May 10, 2000
ANALYZE THIS
By Jerry Jesness, Teacher Magazine May 1, 2000
SPECIAL EDUCATION IN ENGLAND
By Janet Beales Kaidantzis, March 2000
THIS REPORT CARD DESERVES AN 'A' IN EVERY SUBJECT
By Bob Green, Jewish World Review, March 2, 2000
BOYS WILL BE BOYS -- Or You Can Just Drug Them, by George Will, The Washington Post, December 2, 1999.
THE 100,000-TEACHER SCAM By David W.
Kirkpatrick
Few Choice Words, A Publication of the Allegheny Institute for Public
Policy, November 19, 1999
ICH BIN NICHT EIN BERLINER, by Tracy Thomas, The Goldwater Institute, September 1999
POOR SCHOOL CHILDREN AREN'T DESTINED TO FAIL By Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Lt. Gov. Frank Brogan, Special to the Tallahassee Democrat, September 1999
SCHOOLS NEEDN'T BE PRIVATE TO SUCCEED LIKE THOSE DO By Don Erler, The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, August 12, 1999
NEA WOLF IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING
By Andrea Neal
The Indianapolis Star, August 12, 1999
RESIST THE STATE'S EDUCATIONAL
COLLECTIVE
By Jim Spady
Seattle Times, August 11, 1999
THE EDUCATION REFORM DEBATE IS NOT
OVER
By Pat Lines
Letter to the Editor, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, submitted August 6,
1999
MAYBE PANEL'S FOCUS SHOULD BE ON
CREATING 'WORLD CLASS LEARNERS'
By Lynn Harsh
Letters to the Editor, Seattle Times, Wednesday, July 21, 1999
IN THE TRENCHES, A TEACHER FALLS
By Jennifer Solars
New York Daily News, June 24, 1999
WHAT IS TO BE DONE:
Searching for Meaning In Our Tragedy
By the Colorado State Board of Education, May 13, 1999
NEW DIRECTIONS: Federal Education Policy in the Twenty-First Century, Marci Kanstoroom and Chester E. Finn, Jr., editors. Essays published by The Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, February 23, 1999
THE
FEDERAL ROLE IN EDUCATION AND REAUTHORIZATION OF THE ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY
EDUCATION ACT (ESEA)
Testimony by Lisa Graham Keegan, Superintendent of Public Instruction for
the State of Arizona, January 28, 1999
IT'S BACK-TO-SCHOOL-REFORM TIME, by Pete duPont
IntellectualCapital.com, August 20, 1998
ON EDUCATION REFORM, by U.S. Senator John
Kerry (D-MA)
Excerpted from a graduation speech to Northeastern University, June 16, 1998
EDUCATION MANIFESTO: A
Nation Still At Risk
Fifteen years after the National Commission on Excellence
in Education declared the United States a nation at risk, America's educational
system is still failing far too many people. The signatories of this Manifesto
urge two main renewal strategies -- standards, assessments and accountability;
and pluralism, competition and choice -- achieved through ten break-through
changes for the 21st Century. See also: Fifteen
Years after "A Nation At Risk": That Was Then And This Is Now,
a point-by-point look at how the nation's educational profile has changed -- and
hasn't -- from 1983 to 1998.
THE INADEQUACY OF DEFINITIONS OF ADEQUACY IN SCHOOL
CAPITAL FINANCE REFORM, by Lewis C Solmon
March, 1998
THE TRADE-OFF FOR SPECIAL ED, by John R. Silber
The Boston Globe, February 11, 1998
Learning-Free Zones: Five Reasons Why School Reforms
Disappear Without A Trace, by Chester E. Finn Jr.
The Journal Of American Citizenship Policy Review, September / October, 1997
Education Starts With Common Sense; Tie Funds To
Students, Let Free Market Work, by Jeffry L. Flake
The Arizona Republic, September 5, 1997
Money's Not Sole Answer to Ohio's Education Mess,
by Charles A. Byrne
Crain's Cleveland Business, August 25, 1997
How Illiterate Is University Education? Erosion:
Standards Of Reading, Writing And Thinking Are In Peril Except Among A Small
Elite. by Joan Mellen
The Baltimore Sun, August 3, 1997
Education: The Era Of Big Government Is Still Here,
by Chester E. Finn, Jr.
The Weekly Standard, June 2, 1997
… Or Would Reform Best Start With Some Subtraction?,
by Walter Williams
The Richmond Times Dispatch, May 10, 1997
If Schools Have No Reason To Improve, They Won't,
by Ted Kolderie
Star Tribune, April 22, 1997
Congressional Testimony of Edward T. Koch, New York
City Council Member,
Before The Senate Subcommittee On Oversight Of Government Management,
Restructuring, And The District Of Columbia, April 17, 1997
Education and Character: A Conservative View, by
Denis P. Doyle
Phi Delta Kappan, February, 1997
Leading The Charge In All Directions, by Stanley
Carlson-Thies
Capital Commentary, February 17, 1997
What's Missing In Education?, by Pete du Pont
National Center for Policy Analysis, February 11, 1997
Public Education's Myth Of Local Control: Why We Can't
Preserve What We Haven't Got, by Jeffry Flake
Arizona Republic, January 19, 1997
Education's Best, Worst For 1996, by Dr. Michael
E. Tomlin
The Signature, January 2, 1997
Why We Don't Have the Schools We Need, by Bruno V.
Manno
The Indianapolis Star, October 26, 1996
Columnist Says 'Yes' to Just Saying 'No', by Dr.
Michael E. Tomlin
The Signature Newsletter, September 19, 1996
In My Opinion: Students Not All Cut from the Same Mold,
by Jerome Cole
The Oregonian, August 27, 1996
Case for Aid to Catholic Schools More Compelling Than
Ever, by Sol Stern
The Times Union, July 20, 1996
Sharpen Your Pencil, and Begin Now.
Examination for Admission
Jersey City High School, June, 1885
CHARTERS OFFER SMALLER CLASSES FOR LESS MONEY By Joe Nathan, Pioneer Press, September 22, 2002.
WHAT OHIO'S COALITION FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION ISN'T TELLING YOU ABOUT CHARTER SCHOOLS, by Jeanne Allen, president, Center for Education Reform; Chester E. Finn Jr., president, Thomas B. Fordham Foundation; and Lisa Graham Keegan, CEO, Education Leaders Council.
A CHARTER SCHOOL DECADE By Joe Nathan, Education Week, May 29, 2002.
PARENTS' CONCERNS, INVOLVEMENT ROUTINELY DISMISSED BY TRADITIONAL PUBLIC SCHOOLS By Onnie Shekerjian, TownHall.com Reader Comment, February 24, 2002
CHARTER SCHOOLS COULD BE GOOD FOR BOTH STUDENTS, TEACHERS by Peter Murphy, Special to The Buffalo News, January 27, 2002
COULD SCHOOL SYSTEMS SURVIVE THEIR OWN RULES FOR CHARTERS? By Mike Antonucci, April 25, 2001.
THE EMPOWERING PARENTS ACT OF 2001: Senators Carper and Gregg announce bipartisan "Charters and Choice" education bill. March 30, 2001.
PREPARING TO PURSUE
By Kyev P. Tatum
State of the Branch Speech, NAACP Texas Hill Country Branch
January 13, 2001, Hays County Courthouse
CHECKING UP ON CHARTER SCHOOLS
By Kathryn Ciffolillo and Charles D. Chieppo
June 15, 2000
UNCHARTERED
TERRITORY: The charter school movement is withering in Pennsylvania, and
Governor Ridge is the reason
By Bruce Barron, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, June 11, 2000
SMART BUSINESS MOVE: HELP CHARTER SCHOOLS
By Robert L. Luddy, Point of View, The News & Observer
Raleigh, NC, May 17, 2000
CHARTER SCHOOL OPPONENTS IGNORE FACTS
By Paul T. Hill and Robin Lake
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, May 17, 2000
CHARTER SCHOOL
OPPONENTS ARE LOUD BUT FEW
Jim & Fawn Spady, May 6, 2000
TEACHERS NEED CHARTER SCHOOLS
By Robert Maranto
Mesa Tribune,
April 4, 2000
BRITAIN'S EMERGING EDUCATION INDUSTRY
By Janet Beales Kaidantzis, March 2000
HELP CHARTER SCHOOLS FIND INEXPENSIVE HOMES
By Milton Shinberg
Washington Post Outlook Section, December 5, 1999
VOICE OF THE PEOPLE: CHARTER SCHOOLS
By Tom Brademas
South Bend Tribune, South Bend, IN, December 6, 1999
CHARTER SCHOOLS AND DESEGREGATION IN LOUISIANA
Congressional Testimony, October 14, 1999:
IN ARIZONA, CHARTER SCHOOLS WORK
By Robert Maranto and Scott Milliman
The Washington Post, October 11, 1999
NEW DIMENSIONS: THE CHARTER SCHOOL MOVEMENT
Congressional Testimony by Dr. Donna Elam, October 11, 1999
TEACHER UNIONS SEEK TO HOBBLE CHARTERS By
Robert W. Kasten
Letters to the Editor, The Wall Street Journal, July 8, 1999
CALIFORNIA CHARTER SCHOOL
LEGISLATION: Two Steps Forward and Two Steps Back, By Pam Riley
Center for School Reform, Pacific Research Institute, April 16, 1999
ON CHARTERS,
ACCOUNTABILITY AND THE RIPPLE EFFECT: Response to the Results of a Charter
School Study Released by Minnesota's Office of Educational Accountability,
by Joe Nathan
Center for School Change, Humphrey Institute for Public Affairs, University of
Minnesota, January 7, 1999.
RACE DISCRIMINATION IN ARIZONA: IT'S HAPPENING,
JUST NOT WHERE YOU THINK IT'S HAPPENING, by Jeffry Flake
Goldwater Institute, July 9, 1998
MASSACHUSETTS PROVING SYSTEM CAN BE SUCCESSFUL,
by Linda Brown
Dayton Daily News, February 16, 1998
Charter Schools Offer A Choice, by Laura Friedman
And Dave Camden
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, January 20, 1998
CHARTER SCHOOLS ARE THE CURE FOR GOP FUNK, by
Bruno V. Manno
Investor's Business Daily, December 2, 1997
Brazil Has Tackled The Same Problems As Charter
Schools, by Harold Q. Langenderfer
Chapel Hill Herald, September 10, 1997
Charter For Reform: San Diego's Test Campuses Gain
Support Of Business, by Kay Davis
The San Diego Union-Tribune, August 31, 1997
Charter For Reform: New Movement Reinventing Nation's
Public School System, by Bruno V. Manno
The San Diego Union-Tribune, August 31, 1997
Charting A New Course: Across The Nation, Charter
Schools Are Thriving. Why Not Here?, by Bruno V. Manno
The Washington Post, August 31, 1997
Minnesota Charters Breaking New Ground On Facilities,
by Jon Schroeder
Minnesota Journal, August 19, 1997
Charter Schools Set Lofty Goals, by Peter Morcombe
Chapel Hill Herald, July 20, 1997
New Hope For Education In San Diego, by Melissa
Epstein
The San Diego Union-Tribune, July 17, 1997
Charter Schools Put Reins In Teachers' Hands, by
Barry Mcghan
The Detroit News, July 13, 1997
Let's Get Facts Straight On Charter Schools, by
Dr. Ormand Hook
Crain's Detroit Business, May 19, 1997
Learning In Charter Schools, by Bruno V. Manno
Journal Of Commerce, May 5, 1997
The False Friends Of Charter Schools, by Gregg
Vanourek, Bruno V. Manno, & Chester E. Finn, Jr.
Education Week, April 30, 1997
Charter Schools: Choice In America's
Public Schools, by Dr. Philip E. Geiger
American School and University, April 29, 1997
Congressional Testimony: Hearing on Charter Schools,
Committee on Education and the Workforce, US House of Representatives, by
Joe Nathan
Director, Center for School Change, Minneapolis, MN, April 9, 1997
Vouchers and Charter Schools Might Not Save Buffalo
Kids, But They're Worth Investigating,
by Dale L. Zuchlewski, Buffalo Common Council
The Buffalo News, February 20, 1997
Charter Schools Create Competition That Makes Other
Schools Work Harder, by Sarah Tantillo
Asbury Park Press, February 20, 1997
Help Charter Schools To Flourish; A Bold Step On Road
To Educational Reform, by Arne H. Carlson
Star Tribune, February 16, 1997
Charter Schools Free Educators To Teach And Bring Back
The Principle Of Accountability, by William J. Bennett
The Times Union (Albany, NY), February 9, 1997
Missed Opportunity, "Our Viewpoint"
Editorial
Belleville News Democrat, January 7, 1997
Charter Schools: Solution For A 'Return To Excellence', by Oklahoma State Representative Odilia Dank
Study Shows Charter Schools Are Promising Reform
Strategy, by Bruno V. Manno
The News Tribune, October 28, 1996
A Promising Reform Challenges Education's Status Quo,
by Chester E. Finn Jr. and Bruno V. Manno
The San Diego Union-Tribune, September 22, 1996
Emerging Issues In Charter School Financing, by
Louann A. Bierlein And Mary F. Fulton
Government Finance Review, August 1996
Beating Up on Charter Schools, by Chester E. Finn
Jr.
The New York Times, August 24, 1996
Charter Schools Can Be Real Catalyst for Change,
by Tom Watkins
The Palm Beach Post, July 10, 1996
VICTORY FOR SCHOOL CHOICE: A special Forum section featuring responses from dozens of individuals and organizations to the June 2002 U.S. Supreme Court ruling uphold the constitutionality of the Cleveland, Ohio School Choice Program.
21st CENTURY NEEDS NEW SCHOOL MODEL Letter to the Editor by Gisele Huff, Education Week, May 15, 2002
VOUCHERS: THINK BOLDER TO BREAK THE GRIDLOCK By Matthew Miller, Tribune Media Services, February 20, 2002
GIVE CHOICE A CHANCE By Gregory S. Walden and Matthew F. Stowe, The Washington Times, February 20, 2002
SCHOOL CHOICE OFFERS NEEDY STUDENTS BETTER EDUCATION By Robert Destro and Marshall Breger, USA Today, February 20, 2002
VOUCHERS NOT ABOUT CHOICE BUT WHO HAS IT By Robert B. Aguirre, Houston Chronicle, February 9, 2002
CLEVELAND'S KIDS CAN VOUCH FOR VOUCHERS By Cornelius Chapman, Boston Herald, January 28, 2002
CLEVELAND'S SCHOOL-VOUCHER PROGRAM WORTH MAINTAINING By David Owsiany, Columbus Dispatch On-Line, January 28, 2002
EVOLUTION OF CHOICE: BAEO President Howard Fuller talks to William Raspberry on school school choice, The Washington Post, August 6, 2001
THE EMPOWERING PARENTS ACT OF 2001: Senators Carper and Gregg announce bipartisan "Charters and Choice" education bill. March 30, 2001.
TO CHANGE PUBLIC SCHOOLS
By Ken Johnson
The Washington Times, February 12 , 2001
DON'T BACK DOWN ON VOUCHERS, MR. PRESIDENT -- THINK
BIGGER
By Matthew Miller
December 25, 2000
SCHOOL CHOICE IS WORKING IN
MILWAUKEE
By Howard Fuller
Excerpt from an editorial in The Business Journal Serving Charlotte
and the Metropolitan Area, December 22, 2000
LOW-INCOME STUDENTS MAKE ACADEMIC GAINS
By Jay P. Green
Charlotte Observer,
September 22, 2000
Letter to the Editor: STUDIES SUPPORT SCHOOL CHOICE
SUCCESS
By Clint Bolick
The Washington Post, September 2, 2000
WHY SCHOOL CHOICE CAN PROMOTE INTEGRATION
By Jay P. Green
Education Week,
April 12, 2000
RE: SCHOOL CHOICE RULING IN FLORIDA
By Howard Fuller, Ph.D.
To the Participants of the Second Annual National Symposium on Educational
Options for African Americans, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
March 15, 2000
GETTING IDEAS ON EDUCATION
By Nina Shokraii Rees
From Time to Time: Nando's in-depth look at the 20th century,
January 23, 2000
THE JUSTICE OF SCHOOL CHOICE
By Rick Garnett, The Weekly Standard, December 13, 1999
Book review of Choosing Equality: School Choice, the Constitution, and Civil
Society by Joseph P. Viteritti (The Brookings Institution, 1999)
WHERE VOUCHERS WON THE DEBATE
By Milwaukee Mayor John Norquist, November, 1999
POOR SCHOOL CHILDREN AREN'T DESTINED TO FAIL By Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Lt. Gov. Frank Brogan, Special to the Tallahassee Democrat, September 1999
School choice would give all students a shot at the best education, By Willie H. Breazell Sr., Colorado Springs Gazette, August 17, 1999
ALARM BELLS ARE RINGING AT PUBLIC SCHOOLS, By
Kenneth L. Khachigian
Los Angeles Times, June 6, 1999
THE SCHOOLS THAT
VOUCHERS BUILT, By Sol Stern
Now that Milwaukee and Cleveland have school voucher programs, we
can see how the programs work in practice. After visits to four voucher
receiving schools, the verdict is an "A."
City Journal, Winter, 1999.
SCHOOL CHOICE IN MILWAUKEE: 1990 - 1998, By
Howard L. Fuller, Ph.D.,
Current Education Issues: No. 98-1, June 1998
NEEDY CHILDREN NEED VOUCHERS, By Alice Alexander
Carolina Journal, John Locke Foundation, June / July 1998
SCHOOL CHOICE: THE LAST CIVIL RIGHTS BATTLE,
by Sol Stern
Investor's Business Daily, February 17, 1998
Make School Funding Centered On The Children, by Jane
Nelson
The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, November 22, 1997
Private Sector Schools Serve the Difficult to Educate,
by Thomas Bertonneau
Viewpoint on Public Issues, The Mackinac Center, October 6, 1997
Teachers Union Fails In Bid To Thwart Will Of The
People, by Lisa Graham Keegan
The Arizona Republic, July 23, 1997
Why Not Free The Schools, Too?, by Pete Du Pont
The Du Pont Letter, June 25, 1997
Sorry Teachers Union, Smart Money Is On Tuition Tax
Credit, by Jeffry L. Flake
The Arizona Republic, June 8, 1997
The Appeal Of School Choice, by Chester E. Finn
Jr.
Sacramento Bee, May 20, 1997
Arizona Leads The Way On School Reform, by Elie
Pieprz
Investor's Business Daily, May 13, 1997
Why Not Educational Choice For All?, by Pete du
Pont
National Center for Policy Analysis, March 5, 1997
School Choice The Priority Within HISD, by Rod
Paige
The Houston Chronicle, February 23, 1997
Do Schools Need A New Framework With More Choice?,
by William B. Allen
The Detroit News, February 23, 1997
Bishop Accepts Idea of Taking Students from Public
Schools, by Dave Condren, News Religion Reporter
The Buffalo News, February 22, 1997
Vouchers and Charter Schools Might Not Save Buffalo
Kids, But They're Worth Investigating, by Dale L. Zuchlewski, Buffalo Common
Council
The Buffalo News, February 20, 1997
Bison Fund Shows That School Choice Works, by
Chris Jacobs
The Buffalo News, February 13, 1997
With School Choice, City and Students Would Win,
by Paul M. Henkels
The Philadelphia Inquirer, November 27, 1996
Conspiracy Letter Must Be A Farce Partners Advancing
Values In Education Will Continue Assisting Low-Income Families Via Scholastic
Scholarships, by Daniel Mckinley
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, November 11, 1996
Why School Choice is Needed, by John McClaughry
Brattleboro Reformer, October 24, 1996
Refuting Anti-School Choice Arguments, by Timothy
P. Ehrgott
The Indianapolis Star, October 13, 1996
The Good and the Bad of Home School, by Ronald E. Johnson, Ph.D.
Get Government Out of Education, by Edwin Collett
Vare
The Hartford Courant, September 29, 1996
The Catholic School Miracle, by Sol Stern
The New York Times, September 25, 1996
School Vouchers Can Help Neediest, by Phyllis
Winter and Patricia Jones
Chicago Tribune, August 3, 1996
CHANCELLOR'S NEW READING PROGRAM IS UNPROVEN, By Diane Ravitch, Newsday, February 10, 2003. Link to complete article.
TEACHING OUR CHILDREN ABOUT AMERICA, Remarks of Lynne V. Cheney at the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture, October 5, 2001.
PATRIOTISM REVISITED, by Chester Finn, President, Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, October 2001
TEACHING HISTORY IN A TIME OF TERRORISM, by historian Diane Ravitch, October 2001
WORLD HISTORY: An Appraisal By Gilbert T. Sewall
THE WRITE STUFF By
Christina Hoff Sommers
The Women's Quarterly, September 4, 2001
UNPREPARED FOR CLASS By Jonathan Zimmerman. The New York Times, July 11, 2001
THE CLASSROOM CONQUEST OF WORLD HISTORY, By Gilbert T. Sewall, Education Week, June 13, 2001.
DEFINING MOMENT FOR EDUCATION
By Lisa Graham Keegan
Arizona Republic, February 13, 2001
MSPAP FAILING
By Bill Evers
Baltimore Sun, January 3, 2001
VALUE ADDED ASSESSMENT: An Accountability Revolution, by J. E. Stone, from Better Teachers, Better Schools
MATH STANDARDS AND 'POSTMODERN CANT'
Letter to the Editor by Alan Hull
Education Week, June 21, 2000
THE NEW CONSENSUS IN MATH: SKILLS MATTER, by Bill Evers and Jim Milgram, Education Week, May 24, 2000.
NATIONAL COUNCIL OF TEACHERS OF MATHEMATICS BACKPEDALS
ON NEW-NEW MATH
Leah Vukmir, Parents Raising Educational Standards in Schools (PRESS)
April 13, 2000
THIS REPORT CARD DESERVES AN 'A' IN EVERY SUBJECT
By Bob Green, Jewish World Review, March 2, 2000
THE TESTS WE NEED by E.D. Hirsch Jr., Education Week, February 2, 2000.
WHY JOHNNY CAN'T ADD
By Williamson M. Evers
Hoover Institution Weekly Essay, January 17, 2000
VALUE-ADDED ASSESSMENT: An Accountability Revolution, by J. E. Stone, from Better Teachers, Better Schools, 1999
SOCCER MOMS VS. STANDARDIZED TESTS by Charles Sykes, New York Times, December 6, 1999
AN OPEN LETTER TO US SECRETARY OF EDUCATION RICHARD RILEY, signed by nearly 200 professional mathematicians and scientists, November 18, 1999
Macho Contest In California's Math Wars, by Peter
Schrag
Sacramento Bee, December 10, 1997
E.D Hirsch And Core Knowledge, by Joe Nathan
St. Paul Pioneer Press, September, 1997
National Tests: A Yardstick To Learn, by William
J. Bennett; Chester E. Finn Jr.
The Washington Post, September 15, 1997
Standardized Exams Help Evaluate Schools, by
Chester E. Finn Jr.
The Times Union (Albany, NY), August 17, 1997
This Isn't Only A Test, by Chester E. Finn Jr.
The Weekly Standard, July 21, 1997
Test Scores Become Call For Action: Parents, Be More
Demanding Of School Academic Standards, by Lisa Graham Keegan
The Arizona Republic, July 6, 1997
State Should Approve Curriculum Reforms, by Mike
Moses
The Dallas Morning News, July 2, 1997
Yes, To National Tests, by Diane Ravitch
Forbes, May 5, 1997
Rush Toward Learning Standards, by Frank J. Heller
Bangor Daily News, May 3, 1997
Whose National Standards?, by Lynne V. Cheney
Wall Street Journal, April 2, 1997
Reading Fads Zap Standards in Classrooms, by
Jeffry L. Flake
The Arizona Republic, November 10, 1996
Defining Literacy Downward, by Diane Ravitch
The New York Times, August 28, 1996
UNPREPARED FOR CLASS By Jonathan Zimmerman, The New York Times, July 11, 2001.
ANALYZE THIS
By Jerry Jesness, Teacher Magazine May 1, 2000
EDUCATION FOR LASTING SCHOOL REFORM, FIRST LOOK TO
THE TEACHERS
By Arthur E. Levine
Los Angeles Times, January 30, 2000
VALUE-ADDED ASSESSMENT: An Accountability Revolution, by J. E. Stone, from Better Teachers, Better Schools, 1999
GETTING BETTER TEACHERS
By Robert E. Riccobono, former Superintendent, Community School District 19,
Brooklyn, NY
New York Times, November 22, 1999
THE 100,000-TEACHER SCAM By David W.
Kirkpatrick
Few Choice Words, A Publication of the Allegheny Institute for Public
Policy, November 19, 1999
NEA WOLF IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING
By Andrea Neal
The Indianapolis Star, August 12, 1999
IN THE TRENCHES, A TEACHER FALLS
By Jennifer Solars
New York Daily News, June 24, 1999
HOW THE WOMEN’S MOVEMENT RUINED OUR SCHOOLS (or
WHY WE SHOULD INSTITUTE MERIT PAY AND END TENURE), by Lewis C.
Solmon
March, 1998
IT’S TIME FOR EDUCATORS TO "SHUT UP AND
TRAIN!" by Dr. Michael E. Tomlin
The Signature, La Veta – Cuchara, CO, February 1998
How Teachers' Unions Handcuff Schools, by Sol Stern
City Journal, Manhattan Institute, Spring 1997
Schools Would Do Better If Tenure Ended And Teachers
Got Contracts For Five Years, by Caroline Shipley
The Buffalo News, January 25, 1997
School Reform Should Start with Teachers' Education,
by Tom Watkins
Sun-Sentinel, October 26, 1996
What the Professors Created, by Phillip Paeltz
Belleville News-Democrat, October 3, 1996
Competition 'Best Thing That Could Happen for
Teaching', Speech by Robert Lutz
Excerpted by the The Detroit News, September 22, 1996
Break These Teacher-Union Chains, by Ken Von
Kohorn
The Hartford Courant, September 4, 1996
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