Op-Eds, Blogs, Columns by Marion Brady

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Washington Post

• What we have here is a failure to communicate - , December 19, 2011
• When an adult took standardized tests forced on kids - , December 5th, 2011
• How Bill Gates can be an education hero - , November 17, 2011
• The complete list of problems with high-stakes standardized tests - , November 1, 2011
• Improving schools with 'The Project' - Washington Post, September 9, 2011
• Warring learning theories: Choose yours - , August 29, 2011
• How to do the right thing in a system that is wrong? - Washington Post, July 22, 2011
• How important is class size after all? - Washington Post, July 12, 2011
• Wrong question, wrong answer - Washington Post, May 23, 2011
• A not-so-modest proposal - Washington Post, April 11, 2011
• A salvage operation for public education - Washington Post, February 19, 2011
• The Bartleby Project - Washington Post, February 2, 2011
• Has American education peaked? - Washington Post, January 10, 2011
• Standardized snake oil - Washington Post, December 15, 2010
• De-legitimizing public education - Washington Post, Nov. 11, 2010
• Are we still capable of educating for "us-ness?" - Washington Post, October 15, 2010
• Are Charter Schools Really Innovative? - Washington Post, September 22, 2010
• How Ed reformers push the wrong theory of education - Washington Post, August 24, 2010
• Dogs: An Unusual Guide to School Reform - Washington Post, August 12, 2010
• Primer for Ed Reformers - Washington Post, July 21, 2010
• The Education Reform Train Is Off the Track - Washington Post, December 23, 2009
• Education Unions: I'm no fan but they get a bad rap - Washington Post, December 18, 2009
• Education Reform: Ignoring the Obvious - Washington Post, December 3, 2009
• Memo: To the Members of My Profession - Washington Post, November 17, 2009
• Education Reform: Wrong Diagnosis, So Wrong Cure - Washington Post, November 4, 2009
• Race to the Top's 10 False Assumptions - Washington Post, Oct. 24, 2009

Florida Thinks

• Back to the Future for a Better Way of Life? - Florida Thinks, July 14, 2010
• Teacher Accountability? It's About Time! - Florida Thinks, April 19, 2010
• Merit Pay Can't Be Defended By Any Measure of Fairness - Florida Thinks, April 11, 2010
• Memo to Lawmakers: You Don't Know What You're Doing on School Reform - Florida Thinks, March 16, 2010
• Firing Silver Bullets or Blanks to Improve Schools - FloridaThinks.com, February 11, 2010
• Wrong Answers from Business Groups on Education Reform - FloridaThinks.com, February 2010

TruthOut

• Education Reform: An Order of Magnitude Improvement - Truthout, January 26, 2012
• Outdated Curriculum - Truthout, July 3, 2011
• Wrong Theory of Learning (reprint, with public comments) - TruthOut, Sept. 24, 2010
• Education Reform: An Ignored Problem, and a Proposal - TruthOut, June 25, 2010
• Coming Soon to a School Near You: Big Ed - TruthOut, May 12, 2010
• Falling Into The Ditch - TruthOut, March 6, 2010
• Educational Reform: Wrong Diagnosis, So Wrong Cure - TruthOut, Nov. 11, 2009