Op-Eds, Blogs, Columns by Marion Brady
Knight-Ridder/Tribune Columns & Articles
Most of these originally appeared in the Orlando (Florida) Sentinel, then were available to the 600+ newspapers served by Knight-Ridder/Tribune Information Services. NOTE: These columns are compiled in free e-book The Road to Hell (above).
- Why education reforms fail - Orlando Sentinel June 13, 2024
- Education Policy Needs an Overhaul to Effect Real Change - Orlando Sentinel February 25, 2023
- Institutional Crisis - Orlando Sentinel August 12, 2022
- Marion Brady's Request for Advice - January 2, 2022
- Salvaging Public Education - Diane Ravitch Blog March 27,2021
- When face-to-face schooling isn't possible - Diane Ravitch Blog July 25, 2020
- Schools must transition to experience-based learning - Orlando Sentinel June 3, 2020
- Why Not Reform Education from the Bottom Up for a Real Change? - Diane Ravitch Blog May 14, 2020
- Standardized tests are cancelled and many kids won't be graded. So what's worth learning right now? - Washington Post April 10, 2020
- Standardized tests dumb America down - Orlando Sentinel February 13, 2020
- Our Kids Face Unprecedented Crises. Standardized Tests Won't Prepare Them - TruthOut October 11. 2019
- Educating for an unknown future - Washington Post November 16, 2018
- 12 ideas that help explain what's wrong with most schooling today - Washington Post March 28, 2018
- A Question for Betsy DeVos - Truthout Buzzflash October 17, 2017
- Test-based accountability is dumbing us down - Diane Ravitch Blog October 16, 2017
- Here's a great way to get kids to learn. Unfortunately, too many schools don't do it. - Washington Post September 29, 2017
- Pols must grasp why teachers oppose testing - Orlando Sentinel September 7, 2017
- Education or catastrophe? HB 7069 tips the balance - Orlando Sentinel June 22, 2017
- Why even the world's highest-scoring schools need to change - Washington Post March 15, 2017
- The most important thing schools don't do - Washington Post December 9, 2016
- Why school is a 'confusing mental mish-mash for kids - Washington Post August 27, 2016
- One Mother's Story: How Overemphasis on Standardized Tests Caused Her 9-Year-Old to Try to Hang Himself - Alternet July 30, 2016
- Education reform: A primer for pundits and politicians - Washington Post January 7, 2016
- A big problem with the Common Core that keeps getting ignored - Washington Post October 22, 2015
- This could change everything about school--for kids, teachers and everyone else - Washington Post August 26, 2015
- What Bill Gates Doesn't Understand About Education - Alternet July 20, 2015
- Why the conventional wisdom on schooling is all wrong - Washington Post April 7, 2015
- The important things standardized tests don't measure - Washington Post March 1, 2015
- One thing schools should do to boost intellectual growth - Washington Post January 12, 2015
- A paradigm shift schools need now--and it's not Common Core, tech or rigor - Washington Post November 19, 2014
- What the Common Core standards can't do - Washington Post October 17, 2014
- What do standardized tests really test? - Washington Post August 1, 2014
- We Need the Right Kind of Standards, Not CCSS - Diane Ravitch blog July 24, 2014
- What real learning actually looks like in class - Washington Post June 18, 2014
- 10 things wrong with what kids learn in school - Washington Post April 2, 2014
- One way to solve America's major curriculum problem - Washington Post February 24, 2014
- Why Common Core isn't the answer - Washington Post January 31, 2014
- "The Procedure' and how it is harming education - Washington Post January 12, 2014
- Beyond tests: How to foster imagination in students - Washington Post November 23, 2013
- The biggest weakness of the Common Core Standards - Washington Post November 7, 2013
- The right way to teach history - Washington Post September 25, 2013
- A quiz on America's core curriculum - Washington Post August 31, 2013
- The Front Burner: Common Core has laundry list of failings at its heart - Orlando Sentinel July 19, 2013
- An any-century curriculum - Washington Post June 11, 2013
- The right--and wrong roles--for teachers - Washington Post April 15, 2013
- Blind, severely disabled boy forced to take standardized test - Washington Post March 24, 2013
- What's Worth Learning? - Washington Post February 28, 2013
- A REAL paradigm shift in education - Washington Post February 11, 2013
- Why all high school courses should be elective - Washington Post January 22, 2013
- What's Worth Learning: How Outdated Curricula Are Failing America's Youth - Alternet January 10, 2013
- Why schools used to be better - Washington Post January 3, 2013
- Nine questions about the '21st Century curriculum' - Washington Post November 28, 2012
- The ultimate education reform - Washington Post November 14, 2012
- How to save taxpayers billions of $$--really - Washington Post October 24, 2012
- A good teacher? - Washington Post October 11, 2012
- The 9th problem with the Common Core Standards - Washington Post September 17, 2012
- Outing ACT: Test and Punish Doiesn't Educate, but It's Profitable for Testing Companies - Truthout September 7, 2012
- Eight problems with Common Core Standards - Washington Post Aug. 13, 2012
- Education's biggest design flaw - Washington Post July 29, 2012
- Is Khan Academy a real 'education solution'? - Washington Post July 12, 2012
- My Word: 25 reasons to worry about the FCAT - Orlando Sentinel June 24, 2012
- The biggest problem with traditional schooling - Washington Post June 13, 2012
- A radical idea to transform what kids learn in school - Washington Post May 15, 2012
- A 'simple fix' for school curriculum (and it's not Common Core) - Washington Post April 26, 2012
- What standardized tests should assess - Washington Post March 22, 2012
- Why are strong readers being labeled remedial? - Washington Post February 25, 2012
- Education Reform: An Order of Magnitude Improvement - Truthout January 26, 2012
- What we have here is a failure to communicate - Washington Post December 19, 2011
- When an adult took standardized tests forced on kids - Washington Post December 5th, 2011
- How Bill Gates can be an education hero - Washington Post November 17, 2011
- The complete list of problems with high-stakes standardized tests - Washington Post November 1, 2011
- Improving schools with 'The Project' - Washington Post September 9, 2011
- Warring learning theories: Choose yours - Washington Post August 29, 2011
- How to do the right thing in a system that is wrong? - Washington Post July 22, 2011
- How important is class size after all? - Washington Post July 12, 2011
- Outdated Curriculum - Truthout July 3, 2011
- Wrong question, wrong answer - Washington Post May 23, 2011
- A not-so-modest proposal - Washington Post April 11, 2011
- A salvage operation for public education - Washington Post February 19, 2011
- The Bartleby Project - Washington Post February 2, 2011
- Has American education peaked? - Washington Post January 10, 2011
- Standardized snake oil - Washington Post December 15, 2010
- De-legitimizing public education - Washington Post Nov. 11, 2010
- Are we still capable of educating for "us-ness?" - Washington Post October 15, 2010
- Wrong Theory of Learning (reprint, with public comments) - TruthOut Sept. 24, 2010
- Are Charter Schools Really Innovative? - Washington Post September 22, 2010
- How Ed reformers push the wrong theory of education - Washington Post August 24, 2010
- Dogs: An Unusual Guide to School Reform - Washington Post August 12, 2010
- Primer for Ed Reformers - Washington Post July 21, 2010
- Back to the Future for a Better Way of Life? - Florida Thinks July 14, 2010
- Education Reform: An Ignored Problem, and a Proposal - TruthOut June 25, 2010
- Coming Soon to a School Near You: Big Ed - TruthOut May 12, 2010
- Teacher Accountability? It's About Time! - Florida Thinks April 19, 2010
- Merit Pay Can't Be Defended By Any Measure of Fairness - Florida Thinks April 11, 2010
- Memo to Lawmakers: You Don't Know What You're Doing on School Reform - Florida Thinks March 16, 2010
- Falling Into The Ditch - TruthOut March 6, 2010
- Firing Silver Bullets or Blanks to Improve Schools - FloridaThinks.com February 11, 2010
- Wrong Answers from Business Groups on Education Reform - FloridaThinks.com February 2010
- The Education Reform Train Is Off the Track - Washington Post December 23, 2009
- Education Unions: I'm no fan but they get a bad rap - Washington Post December 18, 2009
- Education Reform: Ignoring the Obvious - Washington Post December 3, 2009
- Memo: To the Members of My Profession - Washington Post November 17, 2009
- Educational Reform: Wrong Diagnosis, So Wrong Cure - TruthOut Nov. 11, 2009
- Education Reform: Wrong Diagnosis, So Wrong Cure - Washington Post November 4, 2009
- Race to the Top's 10 False Assumptions - Washington Post Oct. 24, 2009