Policy Books


Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education Best Price: $14.99 This book shows the problems associated with elitism and a person cutting themselves off from...	The Mouse that Roared: Disney and the End of Innocence (Culture and Education) Best Price: $10.95 I have a number of advanced degrees and am generally considered to be intelligent and extremely...	The Moral Imperative of School Leadership Best Price: $19.00 Michael Fullan, proposes the need for engagement of the moral imperatives in education. Typical...	Achieving National Board Certification for School Library Media Specialists: A Study Guide (ALA Editions) Best Price: $40.00 An expensive book for its length, although beneficial in its focus on the Media Specialist area,...	Smart Kids, Bad Schools: 38 Ways to Save America's Future Best Price: $6.79 I find myself very conflicted about this book. On one hand I am grateful that there are...



Differentiated Coaching: A Framework for Helping Teachers Change Best Price: $32.43 Differentiated Coaching: A Framework for Helping Teachers Change Awesome! I recommend this...	Urban Schools, Public Will: Making Education Work for All Our Children Best Price: $18.75 There has been much talk in the UK about the lessons that might be learned from the US about...	Catholic Education: Homeward Bound : A Useful Guide to Catholic Home Schooling Best Price: $7.98 As always, Kimberly has produced a solid book that stands well on it's own. I'm looking to...	Color and Money: How Rich White Kids Are Winning the War over College Affirmative Action Best Price: $11.73 Slowly but surely, the disparity between high blown rhetoric and stone cold reality in...	Charter School Outcomes Best Price: $39.48 Sponsored by the National Center on School Choice, a research consortium headed by Vanderbilt...



Feds in the Classroom: How Big Government Corrupts, Cripples, and Compromises American Education Best Price: $4.97 Neal McCluskey of the Cato Institute does a fine job of tracing the history of the federal role...	Learning in the Global Era: International Perspectives on Globalization and Education Best Price: $11.20 An international gathering of leading scholars, policymakers, and educators takes on some of the...	Succeeding at Your Interview: A Practical Guide for Teachers Best Price: $30.00 Beyond a "Must-Read"--this is a "Must-Do" personal coaching workbook. As a...	Teaching Toward Freedom Best Price: $8.50 I had to read this book for one of my teaching classes, and out of all the awful books my...	Only Connect: The Way to Save Our Schools Best Price: $6.19 Rudy Crew's book is filled with dreams of how to get others to work for success. If it were not...

Education Myths: What Special Interest Groups Want You to Believe About Our Schools--And Why It Isn't So Best Price: $4.92 I have never read such a misuse of statistics to piece together arguments that are flimsy at...	Howard Zinn on Democratic Education (Series in Critical Narrative) Best Price: $15.02 Perhaps no other historian has had a more profound and revolutionary impact on American...	Teachers Have It Easy: The Big Sacrifices and Small Salaries of America's Teachers Best Price: $7.96 If you are--or expect someday to be--a parent of school aged children, if you are a taxpayer, or...	The War Against Hope: How Teachers' Unions Hurt Children, Hinder Teachers, and Endanger Public Education Best Price: $5.05 I am a veteran public school teacher and read this entire captivating book in one sitting. ...	The Knowledge Deficit Best Price: $8.94 Good compliments to this work are Mortimer Adler's "How to Read a Book" and Michael...

The Case Against Homework: How Homework Is Hurting Children and What Parents Can Do About It Best Price: $7.82 Unlike many books on education, The Case Against Homework is a true action manual, not content...	Transforming Schools: Creating a Culture of Continuous Improvement Best Price: $3.99 This text aids one in figuring out how to reform or transform one's school culture. It is not a...	Faculty Priorities Reconsidered: Rewarding Multiple Forms of Scholarship Best Price: $30.93 No reform effort in American higher education in the last twenty years has been more important...	City Kids, City Schools: More Reports from the Front Row Best Price: $13.66 A follow-up to the classic collection on the realities of teaching and learning in urban...	A Good Teacher in Every Classroom : Preparing the Highly Qualified Teachers Our Children Deserve Best Price: $11.84 What kind of experiences do children need in order to grow and learn? What kind of knowledge do...

Complete Idiot's Guide to Homeschooling Best Price: $7.50 I like all the idiot books. I like the references they give to help you along and the whimsical...	NCLB Meets School Realities: Lessons From the Field Best Price: $24.72 "A timely study on the implementation of NCLB in 6 states during the initial phase of the...	Asking the Right Questions: Techniques for Collaboration and School Change Best Price: $21.94 ?What Edie Holcomb teaches actually works.? Deb Larson and Tom Mooney, K-12 Improvement...	Talk About Sex: The Battles over Sex Education in the United States Best Price: $10.77 Irvine has done some wonderful research for this comprehensive book. The problem is that she...	Mediation in the Campus Community: Designing and Managing Effective Programs (Jossey Bass Higher and Adult Education Series) Best Price: $6.00 "Mediation in the Campus Community" is an essential tool for anyone contemplating the...

To Educate a Nation: Federal and National Strategies of School Reform (Studies in Government and Public Policy) Best Price: $19.95 "To Educate a Nation" brings together the work of some of the most notable young...	Outcomes-Based Academic and Co-Curricular Program Review: A Compilation of Institutional Good Practices Best Price: $22.45 This book is a compilation of institutional assessment good practices. It talks about both...	Breaking Through to Effective Teaching: A Walk-Through Protocol Linking Student Learning and Professional Practice Best Price: $17.45 I highly recommend this 100 page book to busy administrators looking for practical ideas to...	The Rise and Fall of English: Reconstructing English as a Discipline Best Price: $8.00 I finally finished it, his ultimate diagnosis is that English will either become a classical...	The Power to Transform: Leadership That Brings Learning and Schooling to Life Best Price: $12.00 Most education reform today consists of tinkering around the edges of an essentially broken...

The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America Best Price: $1.55 An investigative work into the dangerous and misguided professors across US universities who...	Narrowing the Achievement Gap: Strategies for Educating Latino, Black, and Asian Students (Issues in Children's and Families' Lives) Best Price: $45.92 The fastest growing populations in U.S. schools are minority children and youth from Latino,...	Leadership for the Schoolhouse: How Is It Different? Why Is It Important? Best Price: $25.84 In his book, Sergiovanni does an excellent job at providing schools with some answers with which...	Horace's Hope: What Works for the American High School Best Price: $4.74 Theodore Sizer's informative, intelligent critique has several suggestions for improving...	Oversold and Underused: Computers in the Classroom Best Price: $12.20 The book contains a lot of good information, including surveys, and observations. I do however,...

The Future of Educational Entrepreneurship: Possibilit for School Reform Best Price: $29.95 The Future of Educational Entrepreneurship examines the challenge of creating innovative and...	Seeking Common Ground: Public Schools in a Diverse Society Best Price: $10.17 Tyacj makes a short persuasive case for not getting discouraged, persisting at the task--and...	Comprehensive Urban Education Best Price: $57.77	Making Schools Work : A Revolutionary Plan to Get Your Children the Education They Need Best Price: $5.99 This is a book on education reform, by a noted expert in business management. It has the...	The Education Mayor: Improving America's Schools (American Governance and Public Policy) Best Price: $26.95

Moving Every Child Ahead: From NCLB Hype to Meaningful Educational Opportunity Best Price: $20.65 Here, for the first time, is the essential volume on NCLB. In Moving Every Child Ahead, Michael...	Teaching Stories Best Price: $5.67 I am a teacher educator and a former middle school teacher and I am completely taken and...	Wheels in the Head: Educational Philosophies of Authority, Freedom, and Culture from Confucianism to Human Rights , 3E (Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education) Best Price: $27.79 In this popular text, Joel Spring provocatively analyzes the ideas of traditional and...	The Respectful School: How Educators and Students Can Conquer Hate and Harassment Best Price: $3.00 This book is a comprehensive guide for principals in providing a safe environment for students,...	Inside Teaching: How Classroom Life Undermines Reform Best Price: $16.23 Reform the schools, improve teaching: these battle cries of American education have been echoing...

Official Knowledge: Democratic Education in a Conservative Age Best Price: $33.15 After reading this book, I would have to say Michael Apple did a wonderful job using examples to...	Align The Design: A Blueprint for School Improvement Best Price: $25.12	Only Connect: The Way to Save Our Schools Best Price: $1.69 Rudy Crew's book is filled with dreams of how to get others to work for success. If it were not...	School Reform and the School Library Media Specialist (Principles and Practice Series) Best Price: $36.00 This text is the one used for my School Library Management Class. It is informative and...	Reallocating Resources: How to Boost Student Achievement Without Asking for More Best Price: $20.53 Although there has been receptivity to the notion of school-level resource reallocation, there...

The University in Chains: Confronting the Military-Industrial-Academic Complex (The Radical Imagination) Best Price: $12.23 Henry Giroux has written a book for the ages by daftly examining the impacts and effects of...	Inside American Education Best Price: $7.95 Sowell begins citing not only the well-known international pupil achievement comparisons, but...	Supervision for Learning: A Performance-Based Approach to Teacher Development and School Improvement Best Price: $18.95 Written by the expert team of James M. Aseltine, Judith O. Faryniarz, and Anthony J....	Handbook On Differentiated Instruction For Middle And High Schools Best Price: $23.96 There are some good ideas in this book. However, I thought it was very unrealistic that the key...

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