Her other books include, Will Standards Save Public Education? (2000); In Schools We Trust: Creating Communities of Learning in an Era of Testing and Standardization (2002); with Ted and Nancy Sizer, Keeping School: Letters to Families from Principals of Two Small Schools (2004); and co-edited with George Wood, Many Children Left Behind (2004),[8] all published by Beacon Press. She co-authored the book Playing for Keeps: Life and Learning on a Public School Playground (2010) with Beth Taylor and Brenda Engel, co-edited Teaching in Themes: An Approach to Schoolwide Learning, Creating Community, and Differentiated Instruction (2015) with Matthew Knoester and Katherine Clunis D'Andrea, and co-authored Beyond Testing: 7 Assessments of Students and Schools More Effective than Standardized Tests (2017) with Matthew Knoester, all published by Teachers College Press. She serves on the editorial boards of The Nation, Educational Policy, Harvard Education Letter, and Dissent magazine, to which she has contributed many articles, including her essay in the 50th anniversary issue of Dissent, "On Unions and Education", in which she emphasizes the importance of union collaboration to her success in leading public schools in New York and Boston.