Degrees Held
- Ph.D.
Columbia University
- B.A.
Wellesley College
Awards
- Uncommon Book Award, Hoover Institution
- L.H.D., Union College
- L.H.D., Amherst College
- L.H.D., Williams College
- L.H.D., Middlebury College Language Schools
- L.H.D., St. Joseph's College
- L.H.D., Ramapo College
- L.H.D., State Universitiy of New York
- 2005 : John Dewey Award, United Federation of Teachers
- 2005 : Gaudium Award
- L.H.D., Reed College
Publications
- The Great School Wars
- The Revisionists Revised
- The Troubled Crusade: American Education, 1945-1980
- Left Back: A Century of Battles Over School Reform
- The Language Police
- Ed., Brookings Papers on Educational Policy
- The Schools We Deserve
- National Standards in American Education
- Ed., The American Reader
- Ed., with A. Thernstrom, The Democracy Reader
- Ed., with J. Viteritti, City Schools
- Ed., with J. Viteritti, Making Good Citizens
- Ed., with J. Viteritti, Kid Stuff: Marketing Sex and Violence to Children
- Ed., Debating Standards and Accountability in American Education