Op-edsSPEAKOUT: Repair School Culture
Jerry Wartgow, Rocky Mountain News, January 4, 2008
Common Good Colorado Board Member advocates for education reform based on a discipline of patience and persistence and common-sense solutions.
SPEAKOUT: Teachers Crushed by Rules, Regulations
Elaine Gantz Berman And Jerry Wartgow, Rocky Mountain News, October 31, 2007
Common Good Colorado Board Members share findings from "The New Three R's: Rules, Regulations and More Rules" and speak out against the negative effects of paperwork and compliance requirements on Colorado's public schools.
What Matters Most
Randi Weingarten, New York Times, October 15, 2006
Weingarten, President of the United Federation of Teachers, writes about how Common Good's "All in a Day's Work" report illuminates the burden of day-to-day bureaucracy on teachers.
Class War
Philip K. Howard, The Wall Street Journal, May 24, 2005
Common Good chair Philip K. Howard calls attention to the "most unappreciated" problem in our public schools: "the general decline in order."
Free the Schools
Philip K. Howard, New York Daily News, May 15, 2005
Common Good chair Philip K. Howard argues that effective schools and real accountability will only be created by abandoning the "bureaucratic structure" of public education.
You Can't Buy Your Way Out of a Bureaucracy
Philip K. Howard, The New York Times, December 3, 2004
Common Good chair Philip K. Howard calls national attention to the "insurmountable legal barrier" that "blocks even the simplest of choices" in today's public schools.
For Their Own Good: Limit Student's Rights
Richard Arum, The Washington Post, December 29, 2003
Asking for Trouble
Diane Ravitch, New York Post, December 19, 2003
An op-ed by Common Good Advisory Board member Diane Ravitch.
The Death of Common Sense
Philip K. Howard, Ob. Gyn. News, January 1, 2003
"For every lawsuit, there are millions and probably billions of decisions made or not made reasonably, every day, because of fear of the system. It has literally changed our culture."
We're Reaping What We Sue
George S. McGovern and Alan K. Simpson, Wall Street Journal, April 17, 2002
Former U.S. Senators from opposite sides of the aisle, George S. McGovern and Alan K. Simpson write, "Lawsuits, a vital tool of justice, support a free society only when judges and legislatures take the responsibility of deciding who can sue for what. Otherwise, fear replaces freedom." Mr. McGovern and Mr. Simpson are both Common Good Advisory Board Members.
Teachers' Rulebook is Killing the Schools
Philip K. Howard, The Daily News, June 11, 2001
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