Op-Eds and Public Commentaries

2023               

Kitzmiller, Erika M. “The next step in school funding: a rural-urban coalition to achieve educational equity,” Pennsylvania Capital-Star, March 3. Link.

2022               

Rodriguez, Akira Drake and Erika M. Kitzmiller, “We have a lot to learn from teacher’s unions,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, February 10. Link.

Kitzmiller, Erika M. and Akira Drake Rodriguez, “The Racialized History of Philadelphia’s Toxic Public Schools,” The Metropole, Urban History Association, January. Link.

Kitzmiller, Erika M. “Pennsylvania’s school funding is a case study in the future of inequality,” The Hechinger Report, January 10. Link.

2021               

Kitzmiller, Erika M. and Akira Drake Rodriguez, “The link between educational inequality and infrastructure,” The Washington Post, August 6. Link.

Rodriguez, Akira Drake, Erika M. Kitzmiller, and Daniel Aldana Cohen, “Now is our chance to rebuild U.S. public schools to address both climate change and racial inequality,” Time, July 30. Link.

Kitzmiller, Erika M. and Lauren Overton, “As Children Develop Their Gender Identities, Educators and Families Must Support Them,” Barnard Top 5, June 1. Link.

Domers, Ted and Erika M. Kitzmiller, “Students as Collaborators in Research-Practice Partnerships: A commentary on the April 2021 issue,” Phi Delta Kappan, May 3. Link.

2020               

Rodriguez, Akira Drake and Erika M. Kitzmiller, “Philly’s School District is Halting Reopenings. It Should’ve Listened to Teachers Earlier,” Philadelphia Inquirer, November 11. Link.

Kitzmiller, Erika M. “Re-opening Schools Isn’t Worth the Risk,” New York Daily News, July 19. Link.

2019               

Kitzmiller, Erika M. “Public Schools, Private Funding: An Arms Race,” Phi Kappa Phi Forum, Spring. Link.

2018               

Kitzmiller, Erika M. and Adele Bruni Ashley, “Remaining Silent is a Political Act,” The Hechinger Report, November 8. Link.

 2016               

Kitzmiller, Erika M. “Donald Trump and teaching in a democracy: Where did we go wrong?,” The Hechinger Report, November 10. Link.

Kitzmiller, Erika M. “What elite universities can learn from Alexander Hamilton,” Reuters, June 2. Link.

2015               

Kitzmiller, Erika M. “More than a Bake Sale: Private Funding for Public Schools,” Teachers College Record, Commentary, February 9.  

2014               

Kitzmiller, Erika M. “Philadelphia to Corporate Ed Reformers: No Contract, No Peace,” Dissent, November 1. Link.      

Kitzmiller, Erika M. and Deborah Grill, “Mourning the Loss of Germantown High School,” The Crier, Summer.

2011               

Kitzmiller, Erika M. “Making Jewels out of Rough Diamonds”: Memories of the Wissahickon Boys Club, The Crier, Fall.