Susan Ohanian
Susan Ohanian, a long-time teacher, currently writes about education issues. She maintains a web site in opposition to high stakes testing and No Child Left Behind (NCLB), taking a leadership role in opposition to the federalization of education policy and practice.
A recipient of numerous writing awards, Ohanian’s more than 300 essays on education issues have appeared in periodicals ranging from Phi Delta Kappan cover stories to op-ed pieces in The Nation and USA Today. Ohanian has written numerous books, including Why Is Corporate America Bashing Our Public Schools? with Kathy Emery (Heinemann 2004); What Happened to Recess and Why Are Our Children Struggling in Kingergarten? (McGraw-Hill 2002) and The Great Word Catalogue: FUNdamental Activities for Building Vocabulary (Heinemann 2002). Ohanian is a senior fellow at the Vermont Society for the Study of Education and a fellow at the Education Policy Research Unit at Arizona State University. She is contributing editor for Vermont Commons: Voices of Independence and writes a monthly column in Substance, the education newspaper of the resistance.
Ohanian has received numerous awards, including The George Orwell Award for Distinguished Contributions to Honest and Clarity in Public Language from the National Council of Teachers of English; the Kenneth S. Goodman "In Defense of Good Teaching" Award from the University of Arizona’s College of Education and the John Dewey Award.