Other Memorabilia

This collection includes my news articles, letters/e-mails/notes, papers, memos, speeches, course materials, memoirs, travel/film/book selections, and other memorabilia. These materials are sorted in date order.

Total Entries: 93
Title Date
1990s
Good Intentions, Uninteded Outcomes 4/20/1999
With 2000 Looming, Chances of Meeting National Goals Iffy 1/13/1999
New Questions Raised about the Validity of TIMSS Comparisons 5/27/1998
Email from Deborah Taylor, Decatur Central High School 5/23/1998
Email from Richard Rothstein 5/21/1998
Professor Faults Study That Found U.S. Students Lagging in Math, Science 5/15/1998
U.S. Students’ Low Rank Challenged 5/15/1998
Samples Faulted In Poor U.S. Science Test Result 5/15/1998
Nations Breach Methodology of Science Tests 5/15/1998
Nations Breach Methodology of Science Tests 5/11/1998
Assessment and Accountability: Myths and Realities 2/1/1997
The Risks of Ranking 2/1/1997
Remarks at NSF Seminar 1/1/1997
Letter from David Berliner, Arizona State University 11/21/1996
Letter from Nancy C. Tigner 7/27/1996
Cover Page of The School Administrator 5/1/1996
Letter from Janet Laddish 7/6/1995
Myths About Test Score Compaisons – Speech 6/2/1995
Unconscious (Rhetorical) Motivations 5/3/1995
Letter from Harold Howe II 1995 3/21/1995
Letter from Nancy and Bill Booth 3/8/1995
Letter from Shirley McBay, Quality Education For Minorities Network 1/31/1995
Reacting to the Bell Curve 1/11/1995
Letter from Bruce Alberts 9/26/1994
Letter from Edward Kennedy 4/14/1994
Letter to Michael Krop, Dade County School Board 3/31/1994
Letter from Samuel Sava, NAESP 3/25/1994
Letter from Michael Krop, Dade County School Board 3/21/1994
Email from Uri Treisman 3/20/1994
Oral Statement before Subcommittee on Education, Arts and Humanities 3/18/1994
Chapter 1 Study at Aoociation for Supervision and Curriculum Development 3/18/1994
Letter from Harold Howe II March 1994 3/15/1994
Separate and Unequal 3/9/1994
Letter from Claiborne Pell and Edward Kennedy, US Sennate 3/9/1994
New Directions for Chapter 1: Congressional Testimony 3/1/1994
Myths In International Test Score Comparisons 2/25/1994
Email from Neal Lane 1/5/1994
Letter Virginia Plunkett, Colorado Dpeartment of Education 10/14/1993
Letter from Rand to William Raspberry, Washington Post 10/11/1993
Chapter 1 Testing – It’s No Field of Dreams 9/29/1993
Study Urges Sweeping Changes in Federal School Aid to Poor 9/23/1993
Sure-Fire School Reform 6/11/1993
Letter from Alberta Teachers’ Association to Katy Speakman 5/28/1993
Letter from William Ford, Committee on Education and Labor 5/13/1993
Letter from Shirley Jackson, U.S. Department of Education 4/8/1993
Letter from James Fallows, The Atlantic 4/2/1993
Letter from Harold Howe II, Harvard Univsersity 4/2/1993
Article on School Finance 3/31/1993
The Questions No One Has Been Afraid to Ask 3/23/1993
Program: Myths In International Comparative Test Scores 3/23/1993
Myths In International Test Score Comparisons And Where They Lead Us 3/23/1993
Briefing On the Chapter 1 Study – Lilly Endowment 3/16/1993
Letter from Dale Kildee, Committee on Education and Labor 3/1/1993
Chapter 1 “Extra Help” Doesn’t Work, Experts Say 2/26/1993
Oral Statement before Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary, and Vocational Education 2/25/1993
Lagging U.S. Test Scores Called Misleading 2/13/1993
Congressional Testimony: Federal Policy Options for Improving the Education of Low-Income Students 2/1/1993
Cover Page: Federal Policy Options for Improving the Education of Low-Income Students 1/1/1993
Schools Shouldn’t Be Blamed Because Society Fails Children 8/7/1992
Letter from Columbia University 5/11/1992
Notes for Discussion of International Comparisons of Science and Mathematics Education 4/29/1992
Renegade Researchers Offer Rebuttal: U.S. Schools Are Better Than Many Say 4/8/1992
Notes for Discussion of International Comparisons of Science and Mathematics Education-Assoc. Council for Policy Analysis & Research 4/8/1992
Letter from Diane Ravitch – 1992 3/24/1992
Debate Rages Over Validity of International Studies of Students 2/12/1992
World Test Flawed, Research Says 2/6/1992
U.S. Pupils Rank Low in Global Tests 2/6/1992
Students Test Below Average 2/6/1992
U.S. Yougsters Score Low in Science, Math, But Testing Methods Questioned 2/6/1992
U.S. Students Below World Average in Math, Science 2/6/1992
Measuring U.S. Students 2/6/1992
What Test Scores Don’t Measure 1/7/1992
Science Testing: Unfair? 1/2/1992
NYT – Are US Students the Worst? 12/24/1991
Are U.S. Students the Worst? 12/24/1991
NYT – Which Students Are the Worst 12/24/1991
Exaggerating the Crisis in Education 12/21/1991
Education: The Crisis is Real 12/14/1991
Test Scores Still Count 12/6/1991
We Know Where the Bad Schools Are 11/26/1991
How Will We Know If We’re First In the World in Science and Engineering by the Year 2000? 11/22/1991
What Test Scores Don’t Measure-Washington Post 11/21/1991
U.S. Schools: The Bad News is Right 11/17/1991
Are U.S. School Kids Getting a Bad Rap? 10/31/1991
STC Sponsors Math and Science Symposium 8/1/1991
Issues in Science and Mathematics Education 5/22/1991
Remarks-Educational Organization Leaders Forum 5/20/1991
Letter from Robert M. White, National Academy of Engineering 2/19/1991
In Quote: A Contrary View on Scientist “Shortage” 2/15/1991
Letter from George A. Sinner, Governor North Dakota 2/11/1991
Note from Bud Hodokinson, Institute for Educational Leadership 1/17/1991
Letter from Robert HoweII, Harvard University 1991 1/14/1991
Article on Test Score Comparisons 1/1/1990
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