Media Mentions

Editorials/opinion

“Too many Tennessee lawmakers are eager to pass a costly and vague school vouchers program.” 2024, The Tennessean.
“Why are no-excuses schools moving beyond no-excuses?” 2021, Hechinger Report
“I spent a year and a half at a ‘no-excuses’ charter school — this is what I saw” 2021, The Conversation (re-posted in The Philadelphia Inquirer, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Houston Chronicle, New Haven Register, Tulsa World, Alternet)
“Some ‘no-excuses’ charter schools say they are changing. Are they? Can they?” 2019, The Washington Post
“The Harsh Discipline of No-Excuses Charter Schools: Is It Worth the Promise?” 2019, Education Week

Podcast/Interviews

“A Look Inside No-Excuses Charter Schools,” 2022, Human Restoration Project
“Scripting the Moves” 2021, New Books in Education
“The Debate Over “No Excuses” Charter Schools with Joanne Golann” 2021, Talk of the City
“No Excuses Charter Schools: Teaching to the Script” 2021, Ethical Schools
“No Excuses Charter Schools” 2021, The Best of Our Knowledge, WAMC Northeast Public Radio
“No-Excuses Charter Schools” 2021, Top of Mind with Julie Rose, BYUradio
“#64: Different Strokes for Different Folks” 2019, Have You Heard
“What Makes a Teacher” 2018, Pedagogy of the Obsessed: Educators in Conversation
“Holding Back to Get Ahead” 2016, Have You Heard
“What is the Cost of Order in No-Excuses Schools?” 2015, Education and Society

book reviews

“Scripting the Moves: Culture and Control in a "No-Excuses" Charter School.” 2023, American Journal of Sociology.
“Scripting the Moves: Culture and Control in a "No-Excuses" Charter School.” 2022, Schools.
“Why SLANTing Isn’t Enough.” 2022, Sociological Forum.
“Scripting the Moves: Culture and Control in a "No-Excuses" Charter School.” 2022, CHOICE Reviews.
“Scripting the Moves: Culture and Control in a "No-Excuses" Charter School.” 2022, Harvard Educational Review
“Scripting the Moves: Culture and Control in a "No-Excuses" Charter School.” 2022, British Journal of Educational Studies
“Scripting the Moves: Culture and Control in a "No-Excuses" Charter School.” 2021, Teachers College Record
“Charter school charged students with 15,243 violations in one year. What gives?” 2021, The Washington Post
“Joanne W. Golann deconstructs “no-excuses” charter schools” 2021, NCSPE, Teachers College
“No-excuses, revisited” 2021, Education Next
“Scripting the Moves.” 2021, American Sociological Association Culture Section Newsletter, Vol. 37, Issue 2

cited in articles

“Peabody Scholars share guidance to inform school voucher policy,” 2024, Vanderbilt University
“New poverty research could bring more clarity to charter school comparisons” 2023, Chalkbeat Detroit
“A Reckoning for the Inexcusable?: ‘No Excuses’ and the Collapse of Misguided Educational Reform” 2019, Medium
“‘No-excuses schools’ make no excuse for updating their approach” 2019, Washington Post
“Charter schools swap ‘no excuses’ for a gentler approach to discipline” 2019, The Christian Science Monitor
“ ‘Not a proud moment’: How turmoil at one school could shake up the Achievement First charter network” 2019, Chalkbeat
“CPI: Evalúan modelo “cuasi militar” de escuelas charter” 2018, Telemundo Puerto Rico
“No-excuses’ charter schools could do more harm than good, analysis finds” 2018, Wisconsin Education Association Council
“Is Legislature’s faith in charter schools justified by results?” 2018, Atlantic-Journal Constitution
“How strict is too strict at school?” 2017, The Guardian
“A Brooklyn Charter School Looks Past ‘No Excuses’” 2017, The New York Times
“Beyond No Excuses, the promise of student agency” 2016, Ascend
“Beyond the viral video: Inside educators’ emotional debate about ‘no excuses’ discipline” 2016, Chalkbeat
“10 Years After Katrina, New Orleans’ All-Charter School System Has Proven a Failure” 2015, Voice of Detroit
“Zeroing out Zero Tolerance” 2015, The Atlantic
“The Elite Private School Model Changing How City Kids Learn” 2014, Next City
“Is Self-Regulation Lost in Translation?” 2013, Education Week

consulted on articles

“I finally got to the mountaintop and I failed” 2021, ProPublica
“The tools of the rich propel poor kids” 2021, Bloomberg
“Don’t eat the marshmallow” 2019, WHYY

Blog Mentions

“Jan Resseger reviews an important new book about ‘no-excuses’ schools” 2021, Diane Ravitch’s blog
“Beyond ‘No Excuses’: Lessons from a Charter School Network’s Transformation” 2019, Steven Wilson for CRPE’s blog, The Lens
“EdWeek: Do Children of Color Need Harsh Discipline to Succeed in School?” 2019, Diane Ravitch’s blog
“Research: Are there connections between no-excuses charter practices & teacher turnover?” 2019, College of Education blog at Michigan State University
“The effects of school discipline on families of color” 2019, Thomas Fordham Institute blog, Flypaper
“National Education Policy Center: What Is the Evidence for the Success of No-Excuses Charter Schools?” 2018, Diane Ravitch’s blog
“Holding Back to Get Ahead” 2016, HuffPost Education Blog