Essays
Why College Still Matters
From mindingthecampus.com
Rethinking the Rules of the Higher Education Game
Academe Magazine, American Association of University Professors
Essays and Commentary
How Colleges Perpetuate Inequality
From the Chronicle of Higher Education, Jan. 12, 2007
"The Geography of Privilege"
Essay in the Spring, 2004, issue of Encounter: Education for Meaning and Social Justice
Class Rules: the Fiction of Egalitarian Higher Education
From the Chronicle Review (Chronicle of Higher Education, July 25, 2003.
"Class Struggle"
Review essay in The Nation, May 5, 2003.
"The GRE and Me: Prestige Versus Quality in American Higher Education"
Essay appears in the Spring 2003 issue of Encounter: Education for Meaning and Social Justice
"Turning Schools into Profit Centers"
From the Jan. 8, 2003, issue of Education Week
"A Nation at Risk"
Review essay of In Schools We Trust by Deborah Meier in The Nation, Nov. 18, 2002.
"Testing Times in Higher Ed"
A review essay on the book, Fair Game?, by Rebecca Zwick for The Nation.
"Pseudo-meritocracy"
The Boston Review, December/January 2001
Books
Tearing Down the Gates: Confronting the Class Divide in American Education from the University of California Press)
While we often hear about the growing economic divide between the rich and the poor in America, Tearing Down the Gates locates the fountainhead of these growing economic disparities, our education system, and shows how the widening class divide results in an untold loss of human talent that will derail the American Dream --not just for some, but for us all.
Standardized Minds: The High Price of America's Testing Culture and What We Can Do to Change it (Perseus Publishing)
A critical examination of America's 'testing culture' in schools, higher education, and the workplace, and how the American meritocracy can be more fair for all citizens.
Generation X Goes to College: An Eye-Opening Account of Teaching in Postmodern America (Open Court).
An inquiry into "postmodern" American culture and its sometimes corrosive effects on qualilty in higher education.
