Journal Articles/Op-Eds

• Repackaging Reality - Education Week, Nov. 20, 1991
• The Here and Now As Curriculum - Transecence, Vol. XIX, 1
• Single Discipline Schooling - Phi Delta Kappan, Feb., 1993
• A Supradisciplinary Curriculum - Chapter 3, ASCD Yearbook, 1995
• Interdisciplinary Isn't the Answer - NASSP Bulletin, March 1995
• Megafailure - NASSP Bulletin, November 1995
• Beyond Interdisciplinary - NASSP Bulletin, May 1996
• Educating For Life As It Is Lived - The Educational Forum, Spring, 1996
• Which History? - ,
• Basic Education - National School Network Newsletter, January 97, Volume 3, Number 1
• Review: Interdisciplinarity; Essays From the Literature - The Educational Forum, Volume 63, Number 3, Spring 1999
• The Standards Juggernaut - Phi Delta Kappan, May 2000
• Thinking Big: A Conceptual Framework for the Study of Everything - Phi Delta Kappan, December 2004
• Why Thinking 'Outside the Box' Is Not So Easy (And Why Present Reform Efforts Will Fail - Education Week, Aug 30,2006
• Bucking Conventional Wisdom - The School Administrator, September 2006
• Cover the Material--Or Teach Students to Think? - ASCD Educational Leadership, Volume 65, Number 5, February 2008
• A '21st-Century Education': What Does It Mean? - Education Week, February 27, 2008
• A Policy With Punch - American School Board Journal, October 2008
• National Subject-Matter Standards? Be careful What You Wish For - Education Week, September 22, 2009
• Race to the Top's 10 False Assumptions - Washington Post, Oct. 24, 2009
• Education Reform: Wrong Diagnosis, So Wrong Cure - Washington Post, November 4, 2009
• Educational Reform: Wrong Diagnosis, So Wrong Cure - Truthout (on-line magazine), Nov. 11, 2009
• Memo: To the Members of My Profession - Washington Post, November 17, 2009
• Education Reform: Ignoring the Obvious - Washington Post, December 3, 2009
• Education Unions: I'm no fan but they get a bad rap - Washington Post, December 18, 2009
• The Education Reform Train Is Off the Track - Washington Post, December 23, 2009
• Wrong Answers from Business Groups on Education Reform - FloridaThinks.com, February 2010
• Firing Silver Bullets or Blanks to Improve Schools - FloridaThinks.com, February 11, 2010
• Falling Into The Ditch - Truthout, March 6, 2010
• Memo to Lawmakers: You Don't Know What You're Doing on School Reform - FloridaTHINKS.com, March 16, 2010
• Merit Pay Can't Be Defended By Any Measure of Fairness - FloridaTHINKS.com, April 11, 2010
• Teacher Accountability? It's About Time! - FloridaTHINKS.com, April 19, 2010
• Coming Soon to a School Near You: Big Ed - Truthout, May 12, 2010
• Education Reform: An Ignored Problem, and a Proposal - Truthout, June 25, 2010
• Back to the Future for a Better Way of Life? - FloridaTHINKS.com, July 14, 2010
• Primer for Ed Reformers - Washington Post, July 21, 2010
• Dogs: An Unusual Guide to School Reform - Washington Post, August 12, 2010
• How ed reformers push the wrong theory of education - Washington Post, August 24, 2010