Diana Senechal, Republic of Noise: The Loss of Solitude in Schools and Culture (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2011).
Tomas Venclova, The Junction: Selected Poems, ed. Ellen Hinsey, translated by Ellen Hinsey, Constantine Rusanov, and Diana Senechal (Highgreen, UK: Bloodaxe, 2008).
Tomas Venclova, Winter Dialogue: Poems, translated from the Lithuanian by Diana Senechal, with a foreword by Joseph Brodsky and a dialogue between the author and Czesław Miłosz (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1997).
"The Folly of the Big Idea: How a Liberal Arts Education Puts Fads in Perspective," American Educator, Winter 2012–2013.
"Should We Educate to Meet the Demands of the Age?" FORUM: A Publication of the ALSCW, no. 5 (What Is Education? A Response to the Council on Foreign Relations report, "U.S. Education Reform and National Security"), Autumn 2012.
"The Cult of Success" (excerpts from Republic of Noise), American Educator, Winter 2011–2012.
"In Defense of Diane Ravitch," The New Republic (online only), December 12, 2011.
"Let Us Not Abandon Listening," Education Week, August 31, 2011.
"Let Strategies Serve Literature," Educational Leadership, March 2011.
"The Spark of Specifics: How a Strong Curriculum Enlivens Classroom and School Culture," American Educator, Winter 2010–2011.
"Why Do We Need a Philosophy of Education? The Forgotten Insights of Michael John Demiashkevich," American Educational History Journal 37, no. 1 (2010).
"The Most Daring Education Reform of All," American Educator, Spring 2010.
"Solitude: A Flashlight Under the Covers," Education Week, May 27, 2009 (online only).
"The Low-Inference Room," Diana Senechal, June 15, 2013.
"'Let's Not Expel the Geniuses,' Says College President," The Cronk of Higher Education, June 3, 2013.
School Shocked by Non-Team-Playing Résumé," Diana Senechal, May 27, 2013.
"College Denies Allegations of Teaching," The Cronk of Higher Education, May 23, 2013.
"Superintendent Tells Principals What to Think," Diana Senechal, May 19, 2013.
"College Library De-Offensifizes All Holdings," The Cronk of Higher Education," May 7, 2013.
"'It's All About the Brute Struggle,' Says Schools Deputy," Diana Senechal, May 3, 2013.
"Teach Us How to Teach, Pleads Faculty," The Cronk of Higher Education," April 24, 2013.
"District Socializes Unusual Students," Diana Senechal, April 20, 2013.
"Task Force to Universalize Multiple-Choice Questions," Diana Senechal, April 8, 2013.
"College Vows to Favor the Unmotivated," The Cronk of Higher Education," April 2, 2013.
"Children Must Learn Indifference, Says District Leader," Diana Senechal, March 29, 2013.
"College Expels Bookish Students," The Cronk of Higher Education," March 26, 2013.
"At Toro College, Everyone Is a Class President," The Cronk of Higher Education," February 21, 2013.
"Teacher Reprimanded for Assigning Book," Diana Senechal, February 18, 2013.
"Pangloss University Eliminates All Teacher/Learner Distinctions," The Cronk of Higher Education, January 22, 2013.
"College Drops Kant, Purchases Clickers," The Cronk of Higher Education, December 4, 2012.
"To Boost College Readiness, Colleges Become Student-Ready," The Cronk of Higher Education, November 15, 2012.
"Student Shows 23 Percent Growth in Finding Central Idea," Diana Senechal, November 10, 2012.
"District Embraces Conversation Starters," Diana Senechal, October 28, 2012.
"College Announces Professor-for-Dorm Exchange," The Cronk of Higher Education, October 15, 2012.
"To Save Kids, District Adopts No-Sitdown Policy," Diana Senechal, October 13, 2012.
"Faculty Denied Tenure Are Branded 'Thoughtful,'" The Cronk of Higher Education, October 9, 2012.
"College Bans Words 'Intellect' and 'Culture,'" The Cronk of Higher Education, September 17, 2012.
"Equals Sign Creates Jobs and Confusion," Diana Senechal, September 3, 2012.
"Breakthrough Research Shows Role of Study in Learning," Diana Senechal, September 2, 2012.
"University Inaugurates Pre-Orientation Orientation," The Cronk of Higher Education, August 23, 2012.
"College Composition Embraces Obfuscation," The Cronk of Higher Education, August 9, 2012.
"Philanthropist Funds Misfit Database for Kindergarten," Diana Senechal, July 21, 2012.
"University Celebrates Annual Paradigm Shift," The Cronk of Higher Education, July 2, 2012.
"District Announces Value-Added Bazaar," Diana Senechal, July 2, 2012.
"My Galvanic Afternoon," Diana Senechal, June 19, 2012.
"To Boost Results, College Bans Literature," The Cronk of Higher Education, April 23, 2012.
"Mathematician Discovers He Is Valid, Too," The Cronk of Higher Education, February 29, 2012.
"Scholars Discover New Personality Type: Nice," The Cronk of Higher Education, January 26, 2012.
"College Pledges to Be Research-Based by 2014," The Cronk of Higher Education, January 17, 2012.
"University Offers New Major in Self," The Cronk of Higher Education, January 12, 2012.
"New Software Boosts Student Marketability," The Cronk of Higher Education, December 15, 2011.
"University Library Enlists Collaborative Cheerleaders," The Cronk of Higher Education, November 30, 2011.
"How Socrates Would Fare on New Teacher Evaluation Plan," The Answer Sheet (blog), June 14, 2011.
"Study Finds Lectures Worth Insulting," The Core Knowledge Blog, June 2, 2011.
"An Immodest Proposal—Or, Rather, a Done Deal," The Core Knowledge Blog, October 16, 2010.
"Group Brainstorming: An Educational Nutshell," The Core Knowledge Blog, July 16, 2010.
"No Time to Lose: The Need for 21st Century Skills" (unpublished).
"Class Discussion for Sale," The Core Knowledge Blog, January 4, 2009.
"Why Give Literature an Honored Place in School?" Diana Senechal, April 28, 2013.
"Teaching the Underground," Diana Senechal, April 21, 2013.
"Neither Crystal Palace Nor Underground," Diana Senechal, April 17, 2013.
"How Student Work Can Illuminate Teaching," GothamSchools, April 12, 2013.
"Professionalism Without Protection: The Danielson Framework," Diana Senechal, March 31, 2013.
"Avoid Ickiness at All Costs," Joanne Jacobs (as guest-blogger), March 26, 2013.
"The Pull and Counter-Pull of Teaching," Joanne Jacobs (as guest-blogger), March 26, 2013.
"Breaking the Tablets," Joanne Jacobs (as guest-blogger), March 24, 2013.
"Calling an End to the Day," Joanne Jacobs (as guest-blogger), March 22, 2013.
"The Listening Deficit," Joanne Jacobs (as guest-blogger), March 20, 2013.
"What Makes Man Human, and Where Was the Teacher?" Diana Senechal, February 16, 2013.
"The Precipice of Teaching," Diana Senechal, February 9, 2013.
"Delving into John Stuart Mill with My Students," GothamSchools, January 25, 2013.
"Belonging and Apartness in Intellectual Pursuit," Diana Senechal, January 21, 2013.
"Goe, and catche a falling starre...." Diana Senechal, January 17, 2013.
"Literature Courses and the Common Core," Diana Senechal, January 11, 2013.
"Teaching and Physical Presence," Diana Senechal, December 28, 2012.
"They Guided Me in My Sense of What Is Significant," Diana Senechal, December 23, 2012.
"Accuracy of Imagination: Part 1," Diana Senechal, December 22, 2012.
"The Tyranny of Relevance," Diana Senechal, December 14, 2012.
"Locke and Beads," Diana Senechal, December 11, 2012.
"Daydreams, Lectures, and Helices," Diana Senechal, December 7, 2012.
"A Few Thoughts About Thomas Hardy's 'The Going,'" Diana Senechal, December 1, 2012.
"The Eensy, Weensy Spider in the Universal Crisis," Diana Senechal, November 27, 2012.
"Self-Doubt in a Culture of Certainty," Diana Senechal, November 25, 2012.
"A Way to Think for Myself As If Under Their Eyes," Diana Senechal, November 17, 2012.
"More Pushkin: 'The day's luminary has died out....'" Diana Senechal, November 3, 2012.
"Poet! do not cherish the love of the people...." Diana Senechal, November 2, 2012.
"Is Teaching a Calling?" Diana Senechal, November 1, 2012.
"David Bromwich's Politics by Other Means," Diana Senechal, October 27, 2012.
"Puttering, Responsibility, and Beauty," Diana Senechal, October 19, 2012.
"Enter This Landscape," Diana Senechal, October 8, 2012.
"Elitism Versus Populism in Education," Diana Senechal, September 28, 2012.
"A Sense of Tuning and Timing," Diana Senechal, September 26, 2012.
"On the Meaning of High School Philosophy Instruction," GothamSchools, September 19, 2012.
"Tobias Wolff's Old School: Truth, Tangent, and Return," Diana Senechal, September 16, 2012.
"Yearning and Return in Education," Diana Senechal, September 15, 2012.
"The Deep Problem with the School of One," Diana Senechal, September 5, 2012.
"Why the Lecture Isn't Obsolete," Diana Senechal, August 7, 2012.
"The Misuse of 'Data' (the Word)," Diana Senechal, June 30, 2012.
"The Biometric Bracelet and the End of Daydreaming," Diana Senechal, June 17, 2012.
"Is Personalized Learning a Good in Itself?" Diana Senechal, June 12, 2012.
"The TED Bubble," Joanne Jacobs (as guest-blogger), May 27, 2012.
"More on the Russian Math Textbook," Joanne Jacobs (as guest-blogger), May 24, 2012.
"Solitude of Time," Joanne Jacobs (as guest-blogger), May 21, 2012.
"The Danielson Framework: What Is Engagement?" Joanne Jacobs (as guest-blogger), May 15, 2012.
"Why Do Teachers Stay?" Diana Senechal, May 11, 2012.
"Fiction Is Not Fluff," Diana Senechal, March 23, 2012.
"The Loss of Solitude in Schools," The Answer Sheet (blog), Washington Post, February 10, 2012.
"Research Has Shown—Just What, Exactly?" Diana Senechal, January 27, 2012.
"The Importance of Saying Nothing," Diana Senechal, December 18, 2011.
"A Critical Look at the Critical Lens Essay," The Core Knowledge Blog, December 14, 2011.
"It's a Video Library, Not a Revolution," The Core Knowledge Blog, November 17, 2011.
"Evidence Isn't Everything or Everywhere," The Core Knowledge Blog, October 5, 2011.
"Putting Group Work in Its Place," Joanne Jacobs (as guest-blogger), May 16, 2011.
"Kundera, Rhinoceros, and Group Work," Joanne Jacobs (as guest-blogger), May 15, 2011.
"Evans-Marshall and the Canons of the Profession," Joanne Jacobs (as guest-blogger), May 12, 2011.
"What Do Teachers 'Produce'?" The Core Knowledge Blog, April 12, 2011.
"The Thinking Gap (and Why Teachers Shouldn't Keep Kids Busy Every Second)," The Answer Sheet (blog), Washington Post, January 31, 2011.
"Whatever It Takes? Maybe Not," The Core Knowledge Blog, December 7, 2010.
"What's Wrong with Releasing Names and Scores?" The Answer Sheet (blog), Washington Post, November 12, 2010.
"A Model for Excellent Teaching?" The Core Knowledge Blog, August 19, 2010.
"The Problem with Race to the Top Is the Race," The Answer Sheet (blog), Washington Post, August 11, 2010.
"Sorry Geoffrey Canada, but Failure IS an Option, a Reality, and Even a Boon," The Answer Sheet (blog), Washington Post, April 9, 2010.
"Why Teaching Experience Matters," GothamSchools, April 6, 2010.
"Diane Ravitch Didn't Make a U-Turn," The Answer Sheet (blog), Washington Post, March 25, 2010.
"Tell Us, Six-Year-Olds, What's the Author's Purpose?" Joanne Jacobs (as guest-blogger), January 29, 2010.
"There's No Such Thing as 'Teaching,'" The Core Knowledge Blog, January 7, 2010.
"What's With Those Clickers in Physics Class?" Joanne Jacobs (as guest-blogger), September 9, 2009.
"Guessing My Way to Promotion," GothamSchools, August 17, 2009.
"How Innovative Are You, Teacher?" Joanne Jacobs (as guest-blogger), May 22, 2009.
"Show Me Your Goals, Sir," Joanne Jacobs (as guest-blogger), May 21, 2009.
"A Measure of Privacy," The Core Knowledge Blog, February 11, 2009.
"Making Schools Work for Our Kids," letter to the editor, New York Times, February 5, 2007.
"Reading, Rehashing, 'Rithmetic," letter to the editor, New York Times, March 28, 2006.
"The Auditorium," Watchword, Issue Five, Autumn 2003 (print only).
"The Diagnosis," Watchword, Issue Three, Spring 2002 (online and print).
"The Farm Diary of Guus Kuipers," Pindeldyboz.
"Closure" (a mock drama in verse).
"What to Do in These Circumstances"
"Upon Returning from a Leave of Absence"
Played cello (both the plucked and bowed parts) on the song "Though the Light Seem Small" by Art of Flying.
Self-released an album of songs in 2000.
Recorded a six-song EP, O Octopus, at Tiny Telephone in 2001. John Croslin engineered it.
Contributed lyrics to the Breeders' song "Head to Toe."