Published Writings by Deborah Meier
Books
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Articles
Conference Proceedings
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(2004) (Edited, with George Woods). Many children left behind: How the No Child Left Behind Act is damaging our children and our schools. Boston: Beacon Press.
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(2002). In schools we trust: Creating communities of learning in an era of testing and standardization. Boston: Beacon Press.
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Book Chapters by Deborah Meier
(2008). Creating schools we can trust. In C. Glickman (Ed.), Letters to the Next President: 2008 Election Issue (pp. 18-26): Teachers College Press.
(2007) By All Measures: Just Another False Chase. In The Last Word: The Best Commentary and Controversy in American Education. John Wiley and Sons. 2007. pp. 51-53.
(2007) (with Paul Schwartz). Central Park East Secondary School: The hard part is making it happen (Redux). In M. W. Apple & J. A. Beane (Eds.), Democratic Schools (Second ed., pp. 136-149): Heinemann.
(2007). On Patriotism and the Yankees: Lessons Learned From Being a Fan. In J. Westheimer (Ed.), Pledging Allegiance: The Politics of Patriotism in America's Schools (pp. 49-60): Teachers College Press.
(2006). What we've learned in the small schools movement. In P. Hughes (Ed.), Secondary education at the crossroads (pp. 145-148). The Netherlands: Springer.
(2005). Racing through childhood. In B. Engel & A. C. Martin (Eds.), Holding values: What we mean by progressive education (pp. 122–128): Heinemann.
(2004). Resistance and courage, a conversation with Deborah Meier. In A. S. Canestrari & B. A. Marlowe (Eds.), Educational foundations: An anthology of critical readings (pp. 213-217): Sage Publications.
(2004). Creating schools we can trust. In C. Glickman (Ed.), Letters to the Next President (pp. 18-26): Teachers College Press.
(2000). Can the odds be changed? What it will take to make small schools ordinary practice. In E. Clinchy (Ed.), Creating new schools: How small schools are changing American education (pp. 183-190). Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.
(2000). The crisis of relationships. In W. Ayers, M. Klonsky & G. Lyon (Eds.), A simple justice: The challenge of small schools (pp. 33-37). New York: Teachers College Press.
(2000). Progressive education in the 21st century: A work in progress. In R. Brandt (Ed.), Education in a new era (pp. 211-228). Alexandria, VI: ASCD.
(1999). Needed: Thoughtful research for thoughtful schools. In E. C. Lagemann & L. Shulman (Eds.), Issues in education research (pp. 63-82). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
(1999). Supposing that.... In E. Clinchy (Ed.), Reforming American education from the bottom to the top. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.
(1997). Creating school communities. In S. S. Lee (Ed.), Communities of learning: A vision for the Jewish future (pp. 33-43). Los Angeles: Hebrew Union College.
(1997). Habits of mind: Democratic values and the creation of effective learning communities. In B. S. Kogan (Ed.), Common schools, uncommon futures: A working consensus for school renewal: Teachers College Press.
(1997). How our schools could be. In E. Clinchy (Ed.), Transforming public education: A new course for America's future. New York: Teachers College Press.
(1997). Why not privatize? In A. Kohn (Ed.), Education, inc.: Turning learning into a business: Teachers College Press.
(1995) (with Paul Schwartz) Central Park East Secondary School: The hard part is making it happen. In M. W. Apple & J. A. Beane (Eds.), Democratic schools: ASCD.
(1993). Transforming schools into powerful communities. In R. Takanishi (Ed.), Adolescence in the 1990s. Risk and opportunity: Teachers College Press.
(1991). The kindergarten tradition in high school. In K. Jervis & C. Montag (Eds.), Progressive education for the 1990s: Transforming practice (pp. 135-148). New York: Teachers College Press.
(1988). The beautician question: Can secondary education be progressive? In K. Jervis & A. Tobier (Eds.), Education for democracy: Proceedings from the Cambridge school on progressive education (pp. 68-80). Weston, MA: The Cambridge School.
(1973). The fatal defects of reading tests. In C. Silberman (Ed.), The open classroom reader. New York: Random House.
(2007). Foreword, to C. W. Gallegher, Reclaiming Assessment: A Better Alternative to the Accountability Agenda: Heinemann.
(2006). Foreword, to J. Simmons (Ed.), Breaking Through: Transforming Urban School Districts: Teachers College Press.
(2005). Foreword, to K. Cushman, Sent to the principal. Providence, RI: Next Generation Press.
(2004). Foreword: On being bold, to D. Littky & S. Grabelle, The big picture: Education is everyone's business: ASCD.
(2002). Foreword, to E. H. Stefanakis, Multiple intelligences and portfolios: Heinemann.
(2001). Foreword, to R. S. Barth, Learning by Heart: Jossey-Bass.
(2001). Foreword, to E. Chittenden, T. Salinger & A. Bussis, Inquiry into meaning: An investigation of learning to read (pp. ix-x): Teachers College Press.
(2001). Foreword, to H. Daniels, M. Bizar & S. Zemelman, Rethinking High School: Best Practices in Teaching, Learning, and Leadership: Heinemann.
(2001). Foreword, to S. Ohanian, Caught in the Middle: Nonstandard Kids and a Killing Curriculum: Heinemann.
(2000). Foreword, to D. Bensman, Central Park East and its graduates: Learning by heart, New York: Teachers College Press.
(2000). Foreword, to K. Greely, "Why Fly That Way?" Linking Community and Academic Achievement: Teachers College Press.
(2000). Foreword, to D. Peters, Taking Cues from Kids: How They Think; What To Do About It: Heinemann.
(1997). Foreword, to D. R. Meier, Learning In Small Moments: Life In An Urban Classroom: Teachers College Press.
(1996). Afterword, to L. K. Hong, Surviving School Reform: A Year in the Life of One School: Teachers College Press.
(1995). Foreword, to R. L. Fried, The passionate teacher: Beacon.
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(2008, March). Schooling for democracy or for the workplace? Phi Delta Kappan, 89(7), 507-510.
(2007). Quick fixes and student potential. Profession, 2007(1), 136-140.
(2007, May 21) (with Linda Darling-Hammond, Pedro Noguera, and V.L. Cobb). Evaluating "No Child Left Behind". Nation, 11-21.
(2006, Fall). Undermining democracy: "Compassionate conservatism" and democratic education. Dissent, 71-75.
(2006, May 24) (with Diane Ravitch). A dialogue between Deborah Meier and Diane Ravitch. Education Week, 25(36), 36–37, 44.
(2006, May 9) (with Alfie Kohn and T. Loveless). Traditional, progressive or a bit of both? The Washington Post, p. A12.
(2006, May). 'As though they owned the place': Small schools as membership communities. Phi Delta Kappan, 87(9), 657-662.
(2006, April 5). Education for what?, The Forum for Education and Democracy [Web].
(2005, Summer). Please support FairTest! FairTest Examiner.
(2005, August 28). In schools we trust. Boston Globe Magazine.
(2005, June 27). On inflated test scores and other problems, The Forum for Education and Democracy [Web].
(2005). Creating democratic schools. Rethinking Schools, 19(4), 28–29.
(2004, January 7). Small-Schools Bipartisanship. Christian Science Monitor.
(2004). Common sense. Horace, 21(1), 38-39.
(2004). For safety's sake. Educational Horizons, 83(1), 55-60.
(2004, June 14). No politician left behind. The Nation.
(2004). On unions and education. Dissent, 51-55.
(2004). Smallness, autonomy, and choice: Scaling up. Educational Horizons, 82(4), 290-299.
(2003). Becoming educated: The power of ideas. Principal Leadership, 3(7), 16–19.
(2003, September). The road to trust. American School Board Journal, 190(9).
(2003). Designing small schools. Stanford, CA: School Redesign Network.
(2003/1997/1978) (with Vivian Wallace, Brenda Engle and Heidi Lyne). Reading at Mission Hill. Boston: Mission Hill.
(2003). So what does it take to build a school for democracy? Phi Delta Kappan, 85(1), 15-21.
(2002). Just let us be: The genesis of a small public school. Educational Leadership, 59(5), 76.
(2002). Standardization versus standards. Phi Delta Kappan, 84(3), 190-198.
(2002). A view from the schoolhouse. Daedalus, 131(3), 41-44.
(2002). Why save public education? Harvard Education Letter, 18(5).
(2000). Educating a democracy: Standards and the future of public education. The Boston Review, 24(6).
(2000, Jun 5). Smaller is better. The Nation, 270, 21.
(2000, November 27). What's lost when we focus on MCAS. Boston Globe, p. A15.
(2000). What do kids need? Eye on Education: WGBH.
(1999). The company they keep. American School Board Journal, 186(9), 25-26.
(1999). A conversation about schools with Deborah Meier. Connection, 14(3), 20-23.
(1999, August 6). With our schools, the smaller the better. Los Angeles Times, p. A15.
(1999, June 19). Your assignment: Fix New York's schools. New York Times, p. A15.
(1999, May 23). Standards yes, standardization no. Rochester Democrat Chronicle.
(1998). Can the odds be changed? Phi Delta Kappan, 79(5), 358-362.
(1998, June 8) (with alfie Kohn). It's difficult and destructive. Boston Globe.
(1997). How our schools could be: Standards, top-down mandates, and grass roots communities. Rethinking Schools, 11(4), 8-9.
(1997). Can the odds be changed? Educational Policy, 11(2), 194-208.
(1997, Spring). Our schools are not good enough. WHY, 27-28.
(1996, September 2). An alternative democratic platform: Education. In These Times.
(1996). The big benefits of smallness. Educational Leadership, 54(1), 12-15.
(1996). Supposing that. Phi Delta Kappan, 78(4), 271-276.
(1995, April). Beyond Academics. Teacher.
(1995, April 19). Democracy Is Not Always Convenient. Christian Science Monitor.
(1995). How our schools could be. Phi Delta Kappan, 76(5), 369-373.
(1995). Small schools, big results. American School Board Journal, 182(7), 37-40.
(1994, Jan). Drop false image of education's golden past. Utne reader, 80-82.
(1994). Keynote Address. Review of Law & Social Change, 21(4), 649–662.
(1994, January 9). Myths, lies and schools. San Jose Mercury News, pp. 1C, 5C.
(1994). A talk to teachers. Dissent, 41(1), 80-87.
(1993). Transforming schools into powerful communities. Teachers College Record, 94(3), 654-658.
(1992, June 17). By All Measures: 'Just Another False Chase'. Education Week.
(1992, September 21). Myths, lies and public schools. The Nation, 255, 271.
(1992). Reinventing teaching. Teachers College Record, 93(4), 594-609.
(1992). School days: A journal. Dissent, 213-221.
(1991). Bush & the schools: A hard look. Dissent, 329-331.
(1991, March 4). Choice can save public education. The Nation, 252, 253, 266, 268, 270, 271.
(1991). The little schools that could. The Nation, 253(9), 321.
(1991, Mar 4). Schools and democracy. The Nation, 252, 253.
(1989). Helping young shun 'ideals' of violence. New York Teacher, 36(2), 6.
(1989, Sep 8). In education, small is sensible. New York Times, p. A25.
(1989). Let's change the school structure: Teacher/parent management, control and accountability. N.Y.C. Challenge, 27-29.
(1989, December) (with Ruth Jordan). The Right 'Choice' For Teachers. Teacher.
(1988, January 9) (with Florence Miller). The book of lists. The Nation, 25-27.
(1988, Spring). What makes a great high school teacher. Instructor: Secondary Edition, 11-.
(1987). Central Park East: An alternative story. Phi Delta Kappan, 68(10), 753-757.
(1987, Fall). Good schools are still possible. Dissent.
(1987). Success in East Harlem. American Educator: The Professional Journal of the American Federation of Teachers, 11(3), 34-39.
(1985). Retaining the teacher's perspective in the principalship. Education and Urban Society, 17(3), 302-310.
(1985) (with Ed Chittenden). Science testing: Creative alternatives. Curriculum Review, 25(1), 76-77.
(1985, May 25). The wrong track [review of the book Keeping Track: How Schools Structure Inequality]. The Nation, 626-630.
(1984). "Getting tough" in the schools: A critique of the conservative prescription. Dissent, 61-70.
(1984). To save our schools, to save our children. Commonweal, 111, 536-538.
(1981). Why reading tests don't test reading. Dissent.
(1976). Story of a mini-school. Notes from Workshop Center for Open Education, 5(4), 29-40.
(1974, Sep-Oct). Children with problems: Poor readers. Today's Education, 63, 32-36.
(1973). Reading failure and the tests (Occasional Paper): City University. of New York, N.Y. City College. Workshop Center for Open Education.
(1972 ) (with others). Notes from city college advisory service to open corridors: City University. of New York, N.Y.
(1968). The Coleman report. Integrated Education, 5(6), 37-45.
(1968). From a Harlem school. Dissent, 15.
(1968). Learning not to learn. Dissent, 15(6), 540-548.
(1966). A report from Philadelphia: Head start or dead end. Dissent, 489-505.
Conferences Proceedings (published) by Deborah Meier
(1999, January 13). Our challenge: To set the highest possible national standard-for human relationships. Paper presented at the Public School Standards Discussing the Case for Community Control, Burlington, VT, Electronic Symposium.
(1998, October). The company we keep: A case for small schools. Paper presented at the Eighteenth Annual E.F. Schumacher Lectures, Salisbury, CT.
(1997, Nov 24). Schooling and "The crisis of relationships". Paper presented at the CES Fall Forum.
(1996). The power of public education. [Electronic Newletter]. New Ground, 47. [Transcript of a speech given at The 1996 Eugene V. Debs - Norman Thomas - Michael Harrington Dinner]
(1994, April 16). Why educate? Paper presented at the Martin Buskin Memorial Lecture, A lecture series of the Education Writer's Association, Seattle, WA.
(1993, April 12-16). Why kids don't "want" to be well educated: Rethinking school reform. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Atlanta, GA.
(1991). Becoming a teacher. Paper presented at the Charles De Garmo Lecture of The Society of Professors of Education, Chicago.
Audiovisual & Webcasts
(2008). Panel of educators at North Dakota Study Group: Deborah Meier, Alyce Barr, Julie Woestehoff . Ontheearthproducaitons.org. February, 2008
(2007). Deborah Meier Podcast: Teachers Network Blog. From her keynote speach at Teachers Network’s Annual Curriculum, Community, Collaboration, and Celebration Conference, April 20th, 2007.
(2007). Deb Meier: American Education Week [Webcast], Ontheearthproducaitons.org. Filmed at University of Wisconsin-Madison, October, 2006. (Clips of speech and group discussion).
(2006). Forum for Education and Democracy conference [Webcast], Ontheearthproducaitons.org. Filmed in Chicago, IL. November 4.
(2004) (with M. Neill & Ted Sizer). Many Children Left Behind [Webcast]. On WGBH Forum Network . Filmed at the Cambridge Forum, October 27. (also available as audio only)
(2002). In schools we trust: Creating communities of learning [Webcast]: On WGBH Forum Network. Filmed at Harvard Graduate School of Education, October 28. (also available as audio only)
(2001) (with Ted Sizer, Linda Nathan, S. Choen & Nancy Sizer). Educators making a difference: Strategies in a world crisis [Webcast] WGBH Forum Network. Filmed at Harvard Graduate School of Education, October 11. (also available as audio only)
(1996). Collaborative Schools Sharing the Power: Education Under Fire [videocassette]. Bloomington, IN: Agency for Instructional Television.
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