“Religious Schools Can be A Solution.” With Bruce Cooper. The Washington Post Outlook Section. September 1, 1996.

“Goals 2000: Design for Making Education Worse.” With James Hirni. The Washington Times, October 21, 1996.

“Education Supply: Will It Create It’s Own Demand?” With Bruce Cooper. Education Week. March 20, 1996.

“Separation of School and State.” The Washington Post. November 20, 1994.

“Innocents at Home: American Students and Overseas Study.” Education Week. November 16, 1994.

“School Prayer: Deliver Us From Political Piety.” The Washington Post. July, 1994.

“Schools: It’s About Time.” The Baltimore Sun. January 16, 1994.

“Good Schools Start With Setting High Standards.” The Jackson Sun. Jackson, TN: November 9, 1993.

“Returning Us to Our Religious Roots.” Los Angeles Times. October 17, 1993.

“The Case for National Education Standards.” The Baltimore Sun. October 17, 1993.

“Service at High Cost.” The Baltimore Sun. July 11, 1993.

“Service Costs, Education Pays.” The Washington Post. May 13, 1993.

“The New Philanthropy: High-Tech Technical Assistance.” Education Week. April 23, 1993.

“Business and the Schools: Why Business Cares.” Roll Call. January 27, 1992.

“Crash Course to Improve Education.” Chickasaw Daily Express. Chickasaw, OK (and various regional papers): January 7, 1992.

“Making Large Districts Work.” Charlotte Observer. December 20, 1991.

“Without Tests, We Flunk.” The Washington Post. April 15, 1991.

“The Winning Ways of Three DC Schools.” The Washington Post. September 2, 1990.

“Philanthropy and the Restructuring of Schools.” Education Week. June 20, 1990.

“Choice of Schools Gives Poor a Chance.” Detroit News. November 27, 1988.

“America Can Rescue Public Schools by Encouraging Competition for Students.” Los Angeles Times. August 28, 1988.

“Shopping for Schools, Only Free-Market Principles Can Save Public Education.” The Atlanta Journal - Constitution. June 26, 1988.

“Education in '88: The Rhetoric and the Reality.” Education Week, Vol. VII, No. 4. September 30, 1987.

“Real Reform in Student Aid.” With Terry W. Hartle. The Washington Post. February 21, 1986.

“Businesses and Schools: An Evolving Partnership.” The Washington Post. November 17, 1985.

“Superior Education Gives Japan the Edge.” With Terry W. Hartle. The Los Angeles Times. October 7, 1985.

“The States Are Leading As Washington Wallows.” With Terry W. Hartle. The Washington Post. September 8, 1985.

“Students Loans: A $3 Billion Default.” With Terry W. Hartle. The Washington Post. August 25, 1985.

“Political Cowardice is Bankrupting Us.” With Terry W. Hartle. Los Angeles Times. August 9, 1985.

“The Reagan Administration Is Politicizing Education -- And That's Good.” The Baltimore Sun. August 4, 1985.

“College Loans That Reward Spendthrifts.” With Terry W. Hartle. The Washington Post. July 2, 1985.

“Toward A National Teachers' Test.” With Terry W. Hartle. Los Angeles Times. June 4, 1985.

“Learning (Maybe) at School.” With Terry W. Hartle. The Washington Post. June 3, 1985.

“The White House in the Schoolhouse.” With Terry W. Hartle. The Washington Post. May 20, 1985.

“The Student Aid Crisis.” With Terry W. Hartle. The Washington Post. March 31, 1985.

“Tips for the Traveler in a Wheelchair.” The Washington Post. March 24, 1985.

“A Spending Freeze Ducks the Issue.” With Terry W. Hartle. The Los Angeles Times. February 28, 1985.

“As States Take Charge of Schools: A New Plan.” With Chester E. Finn, Jr. New York Times. January 6, 1985.

“Huck Finn Is Dead; Long Live Year Round Schools.” With Chester E. Finn, Jr. The Washington Post. December 30, 1984. Reprinted in The Washington Post National Weekly. January 14, 1985.

“Horning In on the Cabinet.” With Terry W. Hartle. The Washington Post. November 20, 1984.

“Reform in America's Schools: A Challenge for the States.” The Washington Post. November 18, 1984.

“A Lesson about Learning.” The Washington Times. November 15, 1984.

“A View of the Revolution: If State Control Follows State Finance, What Becomes of Local Control of Education?” With Chester E. Finn, Jr. Education Times. May 14, 1984. Reprinted in short form as “Does More State Aid for Education Make Local School Districts Obsolete?” Basic Education, Vol. 28, No. 10., pp. 7-9. 1984.

“Testing the Textbooks.” Washington Post, Education Review. April 29, 1984. Reprinted in short form as “The New Text Book Debate: Seeking Quality in Least-Common-Denominator Works.” The Washington Post National Weekly. May 7, 1984.

“Socialist Sweden Tries to Reinvent Philanthropy.” The Wall Street Journal International Edition. April 11, 1984. Reprinted in The Wall Street Journal. April 17, 1984. And in Reader's Digest. August, 1984.

“Where Invidious Comparisons Work.” The Washington Post. February 19, 1984.

“A Public School Masters Its Private Lessons.” The Wall Street Journal. December 7, 1983.

“Let Title I Fund Pupils Rather Than Schools.” The Wall Street Journal. October 4, 1983.

“What Price Excellence.” The Washington Times. June 21, 1983.

“How We Got the Good Teachers.” The Washington Post. June 17, 1983.

“Tax Avoidance 101.” With Terry W. Hartle. The Washington Post. June, 1983.

“Playing Politics With Math and Science.” The Washington Post. March 10, 1983. Reprinted in Current, No. 252. May 1983.

“Student Fees Could Rescue 2-Year Schools.” The Los Angeles Times. January 30, 1983.

“Time for Congress to Pay Up.” With Terry W. Hartle. The Washington Post. December 27, 1982.

“Honig’s Fortunes Hinge on Serrano, Proposition 13.” The Los Angeles Times. December 26, 1982.

“Education: Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom.” The Los Angeles Times. November 26, 1982.

“Tuition Credit: A Blow at Monopoly.” The Washington Post. October 29, 1981.

“Federal Trumps Used Up, Educators Turn to States.” The Washington Star. January 4, 1981.

“A Requiem for the Great Society, and Where Do We Go From Here?” Education Times. November 10, 1980.

“Implications of the Shift from Public Education.” The Washington Star. June 15, 1980. Reprinted as “The Flight From Public Schools: It's not Racial, It's Middle Class.” The Los Angeles Herald-Examiner. June 20, 1980.

“Can Confidence in Public Schools Be Restored?” The Seattle Times. May 11, 1980. Reprinted with minor changes as “Going Private.” The London Times Educational Supplement. April 4, 1980.

“Caught in the Bureaucratic Nightmare.” The Washington Star. April 11, 1980.

“A New Decade for US Education: Who Pays, Who Gains, Who Loses?” The Los Angeles Times. December 30, 1980.

“Hufstedler Must Come to Grips With an Ill-Defined Department of Education.” The Los Angeles Times. December 9, 1979. Reprinted in The Seattle Times. December 13, 1979. And in The Stamford Advocate. January 2, 1980.

“The Tuition Tax-Credit Proposal: Playing With Social Dynamite.” The Los Angeles Times. October 28, 1979.

“Education Vouchers: Threat or Opportunity?” The Los Angeles Times. May 2, 1971.