Sources

Articles and essays*

A Man’s World? The Economist. November 3, 2007.

A textbook case of failure. Alex Johnson. MSNBC. http://www.msnbc.com/id/12705167/.

As AP Expands, Studies Disagree on Its Value. Jay Mathews. The Washington Post. February 28, 2006. http://tinyurl.com/lyyaf.

Boston's Success Could Be Lesson for D.C. Schools. Lois Romano. The Washington Post. May 9, 2006. http://tinyurl.com/h6eyk.

California Initiative Renews Preeschool Debate. Nick Anderson. The Washington Post. May 30, 2006. http://tinyurl.com/rrkjp.

Half of Teachers Quit in Five Years. Lisa Lambert. The Washington Post. May 9, 2006. http://tinyurl.com/fg9b7.

Homework Help, From A World Away. Amit R. Paley. The Washington Post. May 15, 2006. http://tinyurl.com/hmnp3.

How to Be Top. The Economist. October 20, 2007.

Schools Chief Pick Sees Enemy in 'Anonymity'. Nick Anderson. The Washington Post. February 23, 2006. http://tinyurl.com/pettv.

New D.C. Test Demands More Than Circling an Answer. V. Dion Haynes. The Washington Post. April 17, 2006. http://tinyurl.com/2jeg3k.

With a No. 2 Pencil, delete. Anna Quindlen. Loud and Clear. Ballantine Books. 2005.

Reading, Writing, Arithmetic. Andy Rooney. CBS News. http://tinyurl.com/3aqnft.

Schools, Pressed to Achieve, Put the Squeeze on Recess. Margaret Webb Pressler. The Washington Post. June 1, 2006. http://tinyurl.com/s3anh.

Schools Waking Up To Teens' Unique Sleep Needs. Valerie Strauss. The Washington Post. January 10, 2006. http://tinyurl.com/cer4q.

Showtime in the Classroom. The Washington Post. March 22, 2006. http://tinyurl.com/2r7kg2.

“Teach to the Test”? What Test? Colman McCarthy. The Washington Post. March 22, 2006. http://url123.com/ddgkh.

The Great experiment. The Economist. November 10, 2007. http://www.economist.com/world/na/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10104912

The Untidy Revolution. The Economist. November 10, 2007. http://www.economist.com/world/na/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10104894

What Makes a High School Great? Barbara Kantrowitz and Pat Wingert. Newsweek. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12532668/site/newsweek/.

Books

American Education. Joel Spring. Tenth Edition. McGrawHill. 2002.

Charter Schools: Creating Hope and Opportunity for American Education. Joe Nathan. Jossey-Bass Publishers. 1999.

Contemporary Issues in Curriculum. Third Edition. Ed. Allan C. Ornstein, Linda S. Behar-Horenstein, Edward F. Pajak. 2003.

Don't Eat This Book: Fast Food and the Supersizing of America. Morgan Spurlock. Putnam Adult. 2005.

Good To Great. Jim Collins. Collins. 2001.

Leadership for Learning. Carl D. Glickman. Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. 2002.

Lies My History Teacher Told Me. James W. Lowen. Touchstone. 1995.

On Intelligence. Jeff Hawkins. 2004.

School Choice. Ed. Edith Rasell, Richard Rothstein. Economic Policy Institute. 1993.

Schools That Work. George H. Wood, Ph.D. Penguin Books. 1992.

The Educated Child. William J. Bennet, Chester E. Finn, Jr., John T. E. Cribb, Jr. The Free Press. 1999.

The Shame of The Nation. Jonathan Kozol. Crown Publishers. 2005.

The World Is Flat. Thomas L. Friedman. Picador. 2005.

Journals

Aspiration Growth, Talent Development, and Self-Fulfillment in a Context of Democratic Erosion. Don Ambrose. Roeper Review. Fall 2005.

Block Scheduling: More Benefits than Challenges. Response to Thomas (2001). Michael D. Rettig, Robert Lynn Canady. NASSP Bulletin. November 2001.

Creating A Differentiated Classroom. Susan Keck, Scott C. Kinney. Learning & Leading with Technology. September 2005.

Data Driven. Joseph C. Panettieri. Technological Horizons in Education Journal. February 2006.

Decision Making in the Process of Differentiation. Catherine V. Parsons and Jodi M. DeLucia. Learning & Leading with Technology. September 2005.

How Does Time Affect Learning? Joy Zimmerman. Time & Learning. January 2001.

Intensive Scheduling: A Hybrid Model for the Junior High. eLibrary.

Interactive Learning Environment Keeps Modesto Students Engaged. Larry Hines. Technological Horizons in Education Journal. September 2005.

No Longer A Year Behind. Valerie Stokes. Learning & Leading with Technology. October 2005.

School Libraries Go Interactive. Chris Balsano. Technological Horizons in Education Journal. December 2005.

Students’ perspectives on Tracking and Detracking. Susan Yonezawa, Makeba Jones. Theory Into Practice. Winter 2006.

Systemic School Reform: A Guiding Hand. Mary Ann Wolf. Technological Horizons in Education Journal. July 2007.

Teaching in the One-to-One Classroom. Alice Owen, Sam Farsaii, Gerald Knezek, Rhonda Christensen. Learning & Leading with Technology. December/January 2005-06.

Volunteer Tutors. Jerry Baker. Today's School. November/December 2002.

Reports

An Infinite Game in a Finite Setting: Visualizing Foreign Language Teaching and Learning in America. Miguel Mantero. February 2003.

Answering the Question that Matters Most: Has Student Achievement Increased Since No Child Left Behind? Center on Education Policy. 31 May 2007.

A Nation Deceived: How Schools Hold Back America's Brightest Students. Nicholas Colangelo, Susan G. Assouline, Miraca U.M. Gross. The Templeton National Report on Acceleration. October 2004. http://www.nationdeceived.org/NDv1.pdf.

A Shell Game: Federal Funds to Improve Schools. Center for Education Policy. January 2006. http://www.cepdc.org/titlei/TitleISchoolImpFundJan2006.pdf.

Block Scheduling: The Key to Quality Learning Time. Robert Lynn Canady, Michael D. Rettig. Time & Learning. January 2001.

Choices, Changes, and Challenges: Curriculum and Instruction in the NCLB Era. Jennifer McMurrer. Center on Education Policy. 24 July 2007. http://tinyurl.com/35pkne.

Early Education Learning: A National Necessity. Christine L. Brown. Basic Education. April 2002.

Generation Next – Global Research Poll. BBC World Service. October 2006. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/04_12_06_gen_next.pdf.

National Teacher Day Spotlights Key Issues Facing Profession. National Educators Association. May 2, 2006. http://www.nea.org/newsreleases/2006/nr060502.html.

Reading Out of the 'Idiot Box': Same-Language Subtitling on Television in India. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Information Technologies and International Development. http://mitpress.mit.edu/journals/pdf/ITID-2-1_23_0.pdf.

Scripted learning: A slap in the face? California Educator. April 2002. http://www.cta.org/CaliforniaEducator/v6i7/Feature_1htm.

Seminar Periods. The Principal's Partnership. http://www.principalspartnership.com/seminars.pdf.

Teaching Interrupted. Public Agenda. May 2004. http://publicagenda.org/research/pdfs/teaching_interrupted.pdf.

The High Cost of High School Dropouts: What The Nation Pays for Inadequate High Schools. Alliance for Excellent Education. January 2007. http://www.all4ed.org/publications/HighCost.pdf.

The Four Block Schedule: Adapting the 4/4 High School Block Schedule for Middle Schools.

The Power of Innovative Scheduling. Robert Lynn Canady. Educational Leadership. November 1995.

The Silent Epidemic. John M. Bridgeland, John J. Dilulio, Jr., Karen Burke Morison. March 2006. http://www.standup.org/pdf/TheSilentEpidemic.pdf.

* With the exception of book and reports, articles and essays cited in the portfolio are excluded from this section.