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  • Educational Leadership

  • Harvard Education Letter

  • Independent School

  • Kappan

Articles and books by other authors

Compelling research on the crucial out-of-school factors that affect schooling's impact on students.

  • Paul E. Barton and Richard J. Coley: "America's Smallest School: The Family," Educational Testing Service, 1992.

  • Paul E. Barton: Parsing The Achievement Gap, Educational Testing Service, 2003.

  • Paul E. Barton: Parsing The Achievement Gap II. Educational Testing Service, 2009.

  • Paul E. Barton: One-Third of A Nation: Rising Dropout Rates and Declining Opportunities, Educational Testing Service, 2005.

  • David C. Berliner: Our Impoverished View of Educational Reform, Teachers College Record, August 2, 2005.

  • David C. Berliner: Poverty and Potential: Out-of-School Factors and School Success. The Great Lakes Center for Education Research & Practice, 2009.

  • Richard J. Coley: An Uneven Start: Indicators of Inequality in School Readiness, Educational Testing Service, 2005.

  • Christopher Doyle: "Let's Stop Forecasting 21st Century Skills." Education Week.

  • Harold Hodgkinson: Leaving Too Many Children Behind: A Demographer's View on The Neglect of America's Young Children, Institute for Educational Leadership, April, 2003.

  • Harold Hodgkinson: The Whole Child in A Fractured World, ASCD, January, 2006.

  • Sunil Iyengar & Mark Bauerlein: “It’s Not Just the Schools,” Education Week, April 18, 2007

  • Valerie E. Lee and David T. Burkam: Inequality at The Starting Gate: Social Background Differences in Achievement as Children Begin School. Washington DC: The Economic Policy Institute, 2002.

  • Jan Richter: "New Thinking on Children, Poverty & IQ," Connect for Kids, November 10, 2003.

  • Richard Rothstein: Class and Schools: Using Social, Economic, and Educational Reform to Close the Black-White Achievement Gap. Washington DC: The Economic Policy Institute, 2004.

  • Richard Rothstein: "Must Schools Fail?", The New York Review of Books, December 2, 2004.

  • Richard Rothstein: "Whose Problem is Poverty?" Educational Leadership, April, 2008.

  • Mike Schmoker: "When Pedagogic Fads Trump Priorities," Education Week, September 29, 2010.

  • Sean Reardon: "No Rich Child Left Behind," New York Times, April 27, 2013.

  • Sarah Sparks: "Research Traces Impacts of Childhood Adversity." Education Week. November 6, 2012.

 

On the fallacies and costs of the high stakes test mania:

  • Gerald Bracey: "It's The Same Old Song." Phi Delta Kappan, February, 2008.

    Richard Elmore: "Testing Trap." Harvard Magazine, September-October, 2002.

  • James J. Gallagher: "Education, Alone, Is A Weak Treatment." Education Week, July 8, 1998.

  • Walt Haney: "Ensuring Failure." Education Week, July 10, 2002.

  • Douglas N. Harris: Ending The Blame Game on Educational Inequity: A Study of "High-Flying" Schools and NCLB, Arizona State University, March, 2006.

  • Ronald A. Wolk: "Education's High Stakes Gamble." Education Week, November 25, 1998.

On the flaws in some other received wisdom and popular fads:

  • Gerald W. Bracey: "International Comparisons: An Excuse to Avoid Meaningful Educational Reform." Education Week, January 23, 2002

  • Larry Cuban: "How Systemic Reform Harms Urban Schools." Education Week, May 30, 2001

  • Joan F. Goodman: "When Being Nice Isn't Good." Education Week, September 20, 2000

  • Marvin Lazerson, "The Education Gospel." Education Week, May 11, 2005.

  • Alex Molnar and Charles Achilles: "Voucher and Class-Size Research: Not in The Same League." Education Week, October 25, 2000

  • Rona Wilensky: "Wrong, Wrong, Wrong." Education Week, May 9, 2001

Other articles:

  • Patrick Bassett: "Why Good Schools Are Counter-Cultural." Education Week, February 6, 2002

  • Fullan, Michael. "Choosing The Wrong Drivers for Whole System Reform." 2011.

  • Deborah Kenny: "Want to Ruin Teaching? Give Ratings." New York Times, October 14, 2012.

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