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Compelling research on the crucial out-of-school factors that affect schooling's impact on students.
- Paul E. Barton and Richard J. Coley: "America's Smallest School: The Family," Educational Testing Service, 1992.
- Paul E. Barton: Parsing The Achievement Gap, Educational Testing Service, 2003.
- Paul E. Barton: One-Third of A Nation: Rising Dropout Rates and Declining Opportunities, Educational Testing Service, 2005.
- David C. Berliner: Our Impoverished View of Educational Reform, Teachers College Record, August 2, 2005.
- Richard J. Coley: An Uneven Start: Indicators of Inequality in School Readiness, Educational Testing Service, 2005.
- Harold Hodgkinson: Leaving Too Many Children Behind: A Demographer's View on The Neglect of America's Young Children, Institute for Educational Leadership, April, 2003.
- Harold Hodgkinson: The Whole Child in A Fractured World, ASCD, January, 2006.
- Sunil Iyengar & Mark Bauerlein: “It’s Not Just the Schools,” Education Week, April 18, 2007
- Valerie E. Lee and David T. Burkam: Inequality at The Starting Gate: Social Background Differences in Achievement as Children Begin School. Washington DC: The Economic Policy Institute, 2002.
- Jan Richter: "New Thinking on Children, Poverty & IQ," Connect for Kids, November 10, 2003.
- Richard Rothstein: Class and Schools: Using Social, Economic, and Educational Reform to Close the Black-White Achievement Gap. Washington DC: The Economic Policy Institute, 2004.
- Richard Rothstein: "Must Schools Fail?", The New York Review of Books, December 2, 2004.
On the fallacies and costs of the high stakes test mania:
- Gerald Bracey: "It's The Same Old Song." Phi Delta Kappan, February, 2008.
Richard Elmore: "Testing Trap." Harvard Magazine, September-October, 2002.
- Paula M. Evans: "When I Grow Up I Don 't Think I Want to be a Teacher." Education Week, April 12, 1998.
- James J. Gallagher: "Education, Alone, Is A Weak Treatment." Education Week, July 8, 1998.
- Walt Haney: "Ensuring Failure." Education Week, July 10, 2002.
- Douglas N. Harris: Ending The Blame Game on Educational Inequity: A Study of "High-Flying" Schools and NCLB, Arizona State University, March, 2006.
- Alfie Kohn: "Standardized Testing and Its Victims." Education Week, September 27, 2000
- Lynn Olson: "Study Questions Reliability of Single-Year Test-Score Gains." Education Week, May 23, 2001.
- Bruce Shaw: "Dickens and The Competency-Based School." Education Week, December 6, 2000.
- Debra Viadero: "Most Nations Fall Short of NAEP Proficiency, Analysis Finds." Education Week (online article), April 24, 2007.
Ronald A. Wolk: "Education's High Stakes Gamble." Education Week, November 25, 1998.
On the flaws in some other received wisdom and popular fads:
- Gerald W. Bracey: "The Malevolent Tyranny of Algebra." Education Week, October 25, 2000.
- Gerald W. Bracey: "International Comparisons: An Excuse to Avoid Meaningful Educational Reform." Education Week, January 23, 2002
- Gerald W. Bracey: "Small Classes 1, Vouchers 0." (The Research column; not available online). Kappan, December, 2000.
- John T. Bruer: "In Search of…Brain-Based Education." Kappan, May, 1999; see also "Neural Connections: Some You Use, Some You Lose." in the December, 1999, Kappan (not available on line)
- Larry Cuban: "How Systemic Reform Harms Urban Schools." Education Week, May 30, 2001
- Joan F. Goodman: "When Being Nice Isn't Good." Education Week, September 20, 2000
- Robert M. Hauser: "What If We Ended Social Promotion?" Education Week, April 7, 1999
- Marvin Lazerson, "The Education Gospel." Education Week, May 11, 2005.
- Alex Molnar and Charles Achilles: "Voucher and Class-Size Research: Not in The Same League." Education Week, October 25, 2000
- Rona Wilensky: "Wrong, Wrong, Wrong." Education Week, May 9, 2001
Other articles:
- Patrick Bassett: "Why Good Schools Are Counter-Cultural." Education Week, February 6, 2002