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Newspaper/Magazine Articles:

"What States Must Do," Chronicle of Higher Education, 3/10/06, pp. 36-37, with Andrea Venezia.

" California School Finance: Today’s method outdated, confusing, and inadequate," San Jose Mercury News, Sunday, November 23, 2003.

" California: The Swing State in Accountability," Education Next, Summer 2002.

"New Criteria for College Admissions," Education Week, April 21, 1999.

"A Babel of Standards," CrossTalk, Fall 1999.

"School Boards: Trying to do too much," Oakland Tribune, July 7, 1999.

"New Criteria for College Admissions," Education Week Commentary, April 21, 1999.

"Bridging the Remediation Gap," Education Week, September 9, 1998.

"K-16 Education Standards Babel," CrossTalk, October 1998

"Bridging the Remediation Gap," Education Week, September 9, 1998.

Op Ed newspaper editorial, "Smaller Classes Aren't a Cure-All," New York Times, Monday, August 18, 1997.

Newspaper article, "Educational Collaboration: The challenge of meeting unprecedented enrollment demands," CROSSTALK, June 1997.

Newspaper article, "Babel of Standards," The Sacramento Bee, Wednesday, April 30, 1997.

"Don't Let CLAS Die in a Political Deadlock," Los Angeles Times, August 26, 1994 with Julia Koppich.

"Scrap the SAT's for Achievement Tests," Washington Post, September 10, 1994, with Henry Rowen.

"Conflicting Polls Send Same Signal to Schools," Sacramento Bee, October 28, 1993 with J. Guthrie et al.

"Giving Californians the Schools They Want," San Francisco Chronicle, October 21, 1993 with J. Guthrie et al.

"School Boards Are Yet Another Institution in Need of Change," San Francisco Chronicle, June 11, 1992.

"The Challenge of Children's Finance," in Agenda, Winter 1992.

"Forging a National Agenda in Educational Research, Education Week Commentary, September 4, 1991, with Lee Shulman and Tom James.

"Integrating Children's Services," Ed Source, 1991.

"Keep the Spirit of 13, but Restore Fairness," Los Angeles Times, April 5, 1991, with Allan Odden and James Guthrie.

"An Agenda for California Education in the 1990's," Sacramento Bee, September 12, 1990, with James Guthrie and Allan Odden.