This is a sampling of Diane’s more than 500 articles and reviews.
Segregation in Perspective, from Shades of BROWN: New Perspectives on School Desegregation, edited by Derrick Bell
A Contribution to a Festschrift in Honor of James S. Coleman, 1993
Twenty Years of Failing the Schools, The Progressive, February 26, 2021
The Bipartisan Assault on Public Schools, New Republic, February 25, 2021
The Dark History of School Choice, The New York Review of Books, January 14, 2021
How Trump Politicized Schools Reopening, Regardless of Safety, The New York Review of Books, July 31, 2020
“The Education Reform Movement Has Failed America. We Need Common Sense Solutions That Work.” TIME, February 1, 2020. https://time.com/5775795/education-reform-failed-america/
Charter Schools Damage Public Education, June 22, 2018.
What The Teachers Are Asking For, April 26, 2018.
Today is the Anniversary of The Worst Federal Education Law Ever Passed, Jan 8, 2018.
5 Risks Posed by the Increasing Misuse of Technology in the Classroom, EdSurge, December 29, 2017.
Settling for Scores: Why are Schools still judged by the results of Standardized tests? New Republic, December 27, 2017.
Big Money Rules, The New York Review of Books, December 7, 2017
Detroit needs a new model of education, The Detroit News, 2017.
Diane Ravitch: ‘Public Education Is in a Fight for Survival‘, Capital & Maine. Article by Bill Raden, October 19, 2017.
A Detailed Critique of a PBS-run Education Documentary, The Washington Post, July 17, 2017
Indianapolis: What the Public Schools Learned from the Charter Schools, Commondreams.org, June 18, 2017
Don’t like Betsy Devos? Blame the Democrats, New Republic, May 23, 2017
“The Common Core Cost Billions and Hurt Students”, The New York Times, July 23, 2016.
“The Myth of Chinese Super Schools“, The NewYork Review of Books, November 20, 2014
”Mayor de Blasio and Education: Fact-Checking Eva Moskowitz’s Claims”, Huffington Post: Education, March 12, 2014
“Should Mayor de Blasio Unravel Bloomberg’s Reforms?”, The New York Times, January, 2014
“Why so many parents hate Common Core”, Huffington Post, November 25, 2013
“Our Kids Today: The Greatest Generation?”, Huffington Post, October 16, 2013
“The Charter School Mistake”, Los Angeles Times, October 1, 2013
“Diane Ravitch: 3 Dubious Uses of Technology in Schools”, Scientific American, July 18, 2013
“Alabama Accountability Act will devastate public schools without improving education”, AL.com, March 28, 2013
“Former Bush education official: Guinea pigs for Common Core standards”, Indystar, February 27, 2013
“We Must Out-Educate and Out-Innovate Other Nations”, Bill Moyers Web Site, February 8, 2013
“Holding Education Hostage”, New York Review of Books, February 1, 2013
“Two Visions for Chicago’s Schools,” New York Review of Books, September 12, 2012
“My View: Rhee is wrong and misinformed,” CNN, August 9, 2012
“Universities to be Tested to Distraction,” University World News, February 26, 2012.
“Say ‘No Thanks’ to Charter Schools,” Montgomery (AL) Advertiser, February 11, 2012.
“Obama Grants Waivers to NCLB and Makes a Bad Situation Worse,” The Daily Beast (blog), February 10, 2012.
“Diane Ravitch Has Questions for the Cuomo Commission,” School Book (blog), New York Times and WNYC, January 6, 2012.
“Response to Eric Hanushek,” Eduwonk (blog), November 1, 2011.
“Achievement Gap Starts Before School Starts,” San Antonio Express-News, October 13, 2011.
“School ‘Reform’: A Failing Grade,” New York Review of Books, September 29, 2011.
“Reflections on a Visit to Germany,” Huffington Post, September 30, 2011.
“American Schools in Crisis,” The Saturday Evening Post, August 16, 2011.
“Invitation to a Dialogue: Fixing the Schools,” New York Times (Letter to the Editor), July 6, 2011.
“Waiting for a School Miracle,” The New York Times (op-ed), May 31, 2011.
“Bill Gates: Selling Bad Advice to the Public Schools,” The Daily Beast (blog), May 23, 2011.
“Teachers Furious at Duncan,” The Daily Beast (blog), May 10, 2011.
“The Education of Lord Bloomberg,” NYR Blog, New York Review of Books, April 11, 2011.
“Bobby Jindal vs. Public Education,” Bridging Differences, Education Week, March 6, 2012.
“How to Demoralize Teachers,” Bridging Differences, Education Week, February 28, 2012.
“A Dark Day for New York,” Bridging Differences, Education Week, February 21, 2012.
“Desperate Times in Cleveland and Ohio,” Bridging Differences, Education Week, February 14, 2012.
“Getting Real About Turnarounds,” Bridging Differences, Education Week, February 7, 2012.
“Does President Obama Know What Race to the Top Is?” Bridging Differences, Education Week, January 31, 2012.
“Will California Start a National Revolt Against Bad Ideas?,” Bridging Differences, Education Week, January 24, 2012.
“What Value Did the Chetty Study Add?,” Bridging Differences, Education Week, January 17, 2012.
“NCLB: The Death Star of American Education,” Bridging Differences, Education Week, January 10, 2012.
“The Odd Couple: Dennis and Wendy,” Bridging Differences, Education Week, January 3, 2012.
“Scrooge and School Reform,” Bridging Differences, Education Week, December 13, 2011.
“Should Schools Be Run for Profit?,” Bridging Differences, Education Week, November 29, 2011.
“Billionaires for Education Reform,” Bridging Differences, Education Week, November 15, 2011.
“Hooray for the Long Island Principals!,” Bridging Differences, Education Week, November 8, 2011.
“Will San Diego’s Public Schools Survive?” Bridging Differences, Education Week, November 1, 2011.
“NCLB: End It, Don’t Mend It,” Bridging Differences, Education Week, October 25, 2011.
“If You Believe in Miracles, Don’t Read This,” Bridging Differences, Education Week, October 18, 2011.
“What Can We Learn From Finland?,” Bridging Differences, Education Week, October 11, 2011.
“The Trouble With the Parent Trigger,” Bridging Differences, Education Week, October 4, 2011.
“Reflections on the March on Washington, July 30, 2011,” Bridging Differences, Education Week, September 6, 2011.
“Reasons for Hope,” Bridging Differences, Education Week, June 28, 2011.
“Why I Am Marching on July 30,” Bridging Differences, Education Week, June 21, 2011.
“An Interesting Few Days,” Bridging Differences, Education Week, June 7, 2011.
“What Works Best: Help or Punishment?,” Bridging Differences, Education Week, May 17, 2011.
“What Did We Learn From the Cathie Black Debacle?,” Bridging Differences, Education Week, April 19, 2011.
“Lessons From Wisconsin,” Bridging Differences, Education Week, March 15, 2011.
“Signs of Hope?,” Bridging Differences, Education Week, March 8, 2011.
“Huckleberry Finn and The Wire,” Bridging Differences, Education Week, January 11, 2011.
“The Real Lessons of PISA,” Bridging Differences, Education Week, December 14, 2010.
“Bill Gates Listens to the Wrong People,” Bridging Differences, Education Week, November 30, 2010.
“That Was the Week That Was,” Bridging Differences, Education Week, November 16, 2010.
“A Manifesto by the Powerful,” Bridging Differences, Education Week, October 19, 2010.
“The Problems With Value-Added Assessment,” Bridging Differences, Education Week, October 5, 2010.
“Merit Pay Fails Another Test,” Bridging Differences, Education Week, September 28, 2010.
“Why Michelle Rhee and Adrian Fenty Lost,” Bridging Differences, Education Week, September 21, 2010.
“Why Civil Rights Groups Oppose the Obama Agenda,” Bridging Differences, Education Week, September 14, 2010.
“Welcome Back to School ‘Reform,’” Bridging Differences, Education Week, September 7, 2010.
“The Great Accountability Hoax,” Bridging Differences, Education Week, June 15, 2010.
“Just Say No to the Race to the Top,” Bridging Differences, Education Week, May 25, 2010.
“Schools 4 $Sale: Inquire at U.S. DOE,” Bridging Differences, Education Week, May 18, 2010.
“A Double Standard on Test Scores,” Bridging Differences, Education Week, May 11, 2010.
“Letter to the Honorable Members of the Florida Legislature,” Bridging Differences, Education Week, April 6, 2010.
“What I Did Not Recant or Abandon,” Bridging Differences, Education Week, March 9, 2010.
“Closing Schools Solves Nothing,” Bridging Differences, Education Week, February 2, 2010.
“Arne Duncan at ED: Year One,” Bridging Differences, Education Week, January 26, 2010.
“The New Era of Greed,” Bridging Differences, Education Week, January 5, 2010.
“The Race to Nowhere,” Bridging Differences, Education Week, December 15, 2009.
“Obama and Duncan Are Wrong About Charters,” Bridging Differences, Education Week, November 16, 2009.
“Why Education Is Not the Civil Rights Issue of Our Time,” Bridging Differences, Education Week, May 26, 2009.
“Data-Driven Nonsense,” Bridging Differences, Education Week, May 19, 2009.
“What ‘The Harlem Miracle’ Really Teaches,” Bridging Differences,Education Week, May 12, 2009.
“Bridging Differences: A Dialogue Between Deborah Meier and Diane Ravitch,” with Deborah Meier, Education Week (introduction to the series, subscription required), May 24, 2006.
“Do Politicians Know Anything At All About Schools and Education? Anything?,” Nieman Watchdog, February 7, 2012.
“A Letter to New Mexico Legislators – Florida Model Does NOT Work,” Independent Source PAC, February 4, 2012.
“The NCLB Saga Continues (Response),” National Journal Online, October 24, 2011.
“Richard Whitmire’s Account of Michelle Rhee’s Schools Tenure,” Washington Post, April 8, 2011.
“Shame on Michelle Rhee,” The Daily Beast (blog), March 29, 2011.
“Obama’s War on Schools,” Newsweek, March 20, 2011.
“Eight Civics Lessons from Governor Walker,” The Huffington Post (blog), March 14, 2011.
“Why America’s Teachers Are Enraged,” CNN.com, February 21, 2011.
“Testing Remains the Problem,” New York Times, January 26, 2011.
“Ravitch Answers Gates,” with Valerie Strauss, The Answer Sheet (blog), Washington Post, November 30, 2010.
“The GOP’s Education Dilemma,” The Wall Street Journal, November 28, 2010.
“The Myth of Charter Schools,” New York Review of Books, November 11, 2010.
“New York’s New Schools Czar,” New York Review of Books, November 11, 2010.
“Dictating to the Schools,” Virginia Journal of Education, November 10, 2010.
“New York City Plan to Grade Teachers with ‘Value-Added’ Data is Destructive,” New York Daily News, October 25, 2010.
“The Obsession With Testing Is Nuts,” Huffington Post, October 4, 2010.
“Stop Trashing Teachers!,” The Daily Beast, September 29, 2010.
“A Letter from One Non-Believer to Another,” Gotham Schools (blog), September 13, 2010.
“A Big Margin for Error,” New York Times, September 7, 2010.
“Stop the Madness,” book excerpt, NEA Today, August / September 2010.
“There’s Plenty to Learn from George Hall Elementary,” Mobile Press-Register, August 27, 2010.
“Three Books About Education Reform,” Washington Post, August 22, 2010.
“Ravitch: Mayoral Control Means Zero Accountability,” The Answer Sheet (blog), Washington Post, August 4, 2010.
“The Sound of Bubbles Bursting: Student Gains on State Test Vanished into Thin Air,” New York Daily News, August 1, 2010.
“Obama’s Race to the Top Will Not Improve Education,” Huffington Post, August 1, 2010.
“Ravitch on Teachers and Her Critics,” The Answer Sheet (blog), Washington Post, July 8, 2010.
“Opinion: Don’t Close Schools, Fix Them,” AOL News, June 29, 2010.
“In Need of a Renaissance: Real Reform Will Renew, Not Abandon, Our Neighborhood Schools,” book excerpt, American Educator, Summer 2010.
“Why I Changed My Mind,” The Nation, June 14, 2010.
“Obama’s Right-Wing School Reform,” New York Review of Books, June 10, 2010.
“Why Does Everyone Think CEOs Have the Answers?,” School Administrator (AASA), June 2010.
“It’s Time to Give Scrutiny to Foundations’ Efforts to Remake Education,” book excerpt, Chronicle of Philanthropy, May 16, 2010 (subscription required).
“High-Stakes Testing” (in series “Twelve Things the World Should Toss Out”), Washington Post, May 6, 2010.
“No Bad Idea Left Behind,” American Interest, May-June 2010.
“Testimony of Dr. Diane Ravitch, Public Hearing on Charter Schools,” Senate Standing Committee on Corporations, Authorities, and Commissions, Albany, NY, April 22, 2010.
“A New Agenda for School Reform,” Washington Post, April 2, 2010.
“New York Education Officials Are Lying to the State’s Schoolkids,” New York Daily News, March 31, 2010.
“Has Education Reform Gone Too Far/Is Education on the Wrong Track? A TNR Symposium,“ with Diane Ravitch, Richard Rothstein, Ben Wildavsky, Andrew Rotherham, Kevin Carey, Nelson Smith, New Republic, March 15-21, 2010. (View part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, and part 5.)
“‘T’ Is for ‘Texas Textbooks,’” Daily Beast, March 14, 2010.
“The Big Idea—It’s Bad Education Policy,” Los Angeles Times, March 14, 2010.
“Why I Changed My Mind About School Reform,” Wall Street Journal, March 9, 2010.
“First, Let’s Fire All the Teachers!,” Huffington Post, March 2, 2010.
“Why Public Schools Need Democratic Governance,” Phi Delta Kappan, March 2010.
“Today’s Education ‘Reforms’ Were Not Martin Luther King’s Dream,” Huffington Post, January 18, 2010.
“We’ve Always Had National Standards,” Education Week, January 14, 2010.
“New York City Charter Schools Need to Focus on the Neediest,” New York Daily News, January 13, 2010.
“What’s Wrong With Merit Pay?,” Hoover Digest 2009, no. 4.
“Critical Thinking? You Need Knowledge,” Boston Globe, September 15, 2009.
“Charters get an unsatisfactory grade,” Los Angeles Times, August 11, 2009.
“All Twitter, No Twain,” Hoover Digest 2009, no. 3.
“Obama’s Awful Education Plan,” Huffington Post, August 23, 2009.
“The Partnership for 19th Century Skills,” Common Core (blog), July 6, 2009.
“Time to Kill ‘No Child Left Behind,’” Education Week (subscription required), June 8, 2009.
“Are Hollywood and the Internet Killing Reading?,” Forbes.com, February 17, 2009.
“Britain’s Language Police,” Forbes.com, December 27, 2008.
“We Shouldn’t Pay Kids to Learn,” Forbes.com, October 17, 2008.
“A Flawed Reform,” New York Sun, December 17, 2007.
“What’s So Great About Chinese Education?,” Huffington Post, May 28, 2007.
“History’s Struggle to Survive in the Schools,” Magazine of History 21, no. 2 (April 2007), pp. 28-32.
“‘Tough Choices’: Radical Ideas, Misguided Assumptions,” Education Week (subscription required), January 17, 2007.
“Why Teacher Unions Are Good for Teachers—and the Public,” American Educator, Winter 2006-2007.
“The English in Us,” with Michael Ravitch, New York Sun, December 15, 2006.
“Improving Standards and Opportunity for Higher Education in Pakistan,” paper, First International Symposium on Issues in Higher Education in Pakistan, United Nations, December 5-6, 2005.
“Recalling Michael Lynch,” New York Sun, March 24, 2005.
“You Can’t Say That,” Wall Street Journal, February 13, 2004.
“Leaving Reality Out: How Textbooks (Don’t) Teach About Tyranny,” American Educator, Fall 2003.
“Does Education Really Need More Innovation in the Age of Scientifically Based Research?,” Presentation, Office of Innovation and Improvement, U.S. Department of Education, April 15, 2003.
Introduction to the 2000 edition of The American Reader (New York: HarperCollins, 2000).
“What If Research Really Mattered?,” Education Week, December 16, 1998.
“The Great Technology Mania,” Forbes.com, March 23, 1998.
“Defining Literacy Downward,” New York Times, August 28, 1996.
“What Is Democracy and How It Should Be Taught in the Schools,” Free Society Seminar, American Federation of Teachers’ Education for Democracy / International Project, November 1989.
“Tot Sociology; Or What Happened to History in the Grade Schools,” American Scholar 56, no. 3 (Summer 1987), pp. 343-354.
“Bring Literature and History Back to Elementary Schools,” in The Schools We Deserve (New York: Basic Books, 1985), pp. 75-79.
“A Good School,” in The Schools We Deserve (New York: Basic Books, 1985), pp. 275-294.
“Scapegoating the Teachers,” in The Schools We Deserve (New York: Basic Books, 1985), pp. 90-99.
“The Uses and Misuses of Tests,” in The Schools We Deserve (New York: Basic Books, 1985), pp. 172-181.
“Programs, Placebos, Panaceas,” Urban Review, April 1968.