Articles of Interest
"My Pedagogic Creed," by John Dewey, in The School Journal, Volume LIV, Number 3, January, 1897
"Kicking the Secularist Habit: A Six-Step Program," by David Brooks, in the Atlantic Monthly, March, 2003
"Flunking Out of School? Get A Lawyer," by Liza Porteus, August 2, 2002
"Taprooots for a New Century: Tapping the Best of Traditional and Progressive Education," by David Ackerman, in Phi Delta Kappan, December, 2002
"The idiocy of 'relevance' ", by Thomas Sowell, February 23, 2003
"Why Literature," by Mario Vargas Llosa, in The New Republic, May, 2001
"Weaving Teacher Education into a Liberal Arts Education," by Dan Coleman and Mary DeBey, in Kappi Delta Pi Record, Spring 2000
"Tools for Teachers," by Deborah Burns and Jeanne Purcell, in Educational Leadership, September, 2001
"The True Scholar," by Robert Bellah, in Academe, January/February, 2000
"The SAT Asterisk: Another Testing Concession," by Peter Wood
"Outstanding High Schools," by Debra Dickerson, in U.S. News and World Report, January, 1999
"Privatizing Schools: The Philadelphia Experiment," by Ron Brownstein, in the Los Angeles Times
"Other Opiates: What Kids Know," by Mark Goldblatt, in the New York Post, September 1998
"Lesson One: Training Counts," by Linda Darling-Hammond, in the Los Angeles Times, September 1, 2002
"The Parent Trap," by Tom Loveless, in The Wilson Quarterly, Autumn 1999
"Local Illusions," by Chiara Nappi, in The Wilson Quarterly, Autumn 1999
A series of three Los Angeles Times articles by Fred Alvarez on what young people from Ventura County's barrios and other poor neighborhoods face and what some people are doing to help.
On the Santee shooting: Newspaper articles from March 6, 2001
"The New Gospel of Academia: Once largely ignored social research, religion --- and its powerful role in shaping individuals and cultures --- is now a hot field of inquiry," by Teresa Watanabe, in the Los Angeles Times, October 18, 2000
"School Voucher Program Teaches Hard Lessons," by Jill Leovy, in the Los Angeles Times, October 9, 2000
"County schools celebrate big gains
API TEST SCORES: Overall, 78 percent of county's public
schools meet or exceed state targets," in the Ventura County Star, October 5,
2000
The Executive Report of a report by the National Commission on Math and Science Teaching, September, 2000
"Stay at Home With the Kids If You Can: Two Experts Say Parents Must Weigh Their Careers," by Nanci Hellmich, in USA Today, September 28, 2000
"Illinois Experiment Puts Teaching Methods to Test: Findings in a long-term effort suggest California may err in its hope for quick fix based on tests," by Richard Lee Colvin, in the Los Angeles Times, June 4, 2000
"A History of Curriculum Change in the United States, 1890's to 1950's," by Diane Scrofano, written for EDTP 403b, Fall, 1998
"The Quest for Better Teachers," produced by the Fordham Foundation
"The Failproof Test," by Kathleen Mills, in The Wilson Quarterly
"Long Term Culture Trends and the Problems of Higher Education in the United States" by Paul Hollander, in Policy Studies Review, Winter, 1998
"Religion in America: A Historical View," by Elliott Wright, in Phi Delta Kappan, September, 1999
"Taking Learning Seriously," by Lee S. Shulman, in Change, July/August, 1999
"The Near Myth of Our Failing Schools," by Peter Schrag, in The Atlantic Monthly, October, 1997
"The Case Against Bi-Lingual Education," by Rosalie Pedalino Porter, in The Atlantic Monthly, May, 1998
Jill Stewart on bilingual education in New Times LA
Jill Stewart on Steven Krashen in New Times LA
"Education for a Classless Society," by James B. Conant, in The Atlantic Monthly, May, 1940
"The Other Crisis in American Education," by David Singal, in The Atlantic Monthly, November, 1991
"Dan Quayle Was Right," by Barbara Defoe Whitehead, in The Atlantic Monthly, April, 1993
"The Failure of Sex Education," by Barbara Defoe Whitehead
"What Should Children Learn?" by Paul Gagnon, in The Atlantic Monthly, December, 1995
"Education," by the editors of Atlantic Monthly, January, 1876
"Plain Facts About Public Schools," by Samuel Orth, in Atlantic Monthly, 1909
"I, Me, Mine," a book review of Bobos In Paradise, by Benjamin Schwarz, in the Los Angeles Times, July 9, 2000
"I, Me, Mine," a book review of The Boomer, by Hal Espen, in the Los Angeles Times, July 9, 2000