RSS

Geoff Rips

Geoff Rips is an education fellow of the Open Society Institute of the Soros Foundation and is a former editor of The Texas Observer. He is currently coordinator of the Austin Public Education Foundation in Austin, Texas.

Recent Articles

Getting By

Geoff RipsJan 09, 2002

Crossing Over: A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail

By Rubén Martínez. Metropolitan Books, 330 pages, $26.00

Public Schools: An Ideal at Risk

Geoff RipsDec 07, 2001


Works Discussed in this Essay:

Spinning Wheels: The Politics of Urban School Reform, by Frederick M. Hess. Brookings Institution Press, 228 pages, $16.95.

The Tracking Wars: State Reform Meets School Policy, by Tom Loveless. Brookings Institution Press, 194 pages, $16.95.

The Schools Our Children Deserve: Moving beyond Traditional Classrooms and "Tougher Standards", by Alfie Kohn. Houghton Mifflin Company, 344 pages, $24.00.


The Way of RFK

Geoff RipsNov 07, 2001

Searching for America's Heart: RFK and the Renewal of Hope, Peter Edelman. Houghton Mifflin, 272 pages, $26.00.

Dial "M" for Modernism

Geoff RipsJul 20, 2001