Random House New Releases - Education - Essays

American Teacher by Parker J. Palmer

2013-10-29T00:30:00-05:00

American Teacher Heroes in the Classroom
Written by Katrina Fried
Foreword by Parker J. Palmer

Hardcover, 224 pages | Welcome Books | Education - Philosophy & Social Aspects; Education - Essays; Photography - Portraits | $45.00 | 978-1-59962-127-2 (1-59962-127-4)

Celebrating educators, who go far above and beyond the call of duty, American Teacher shines a spotlight on one of the most underappreciated, undercompensated, yet critically important professions in the world. Over the course of two years, Katrina Fried has interviewed and written the stories of 50 extraordinary teachers from kindergarten through 12th grade, selected from public and charter schools across the United States. The result is a collection of inspiring and informative first person-narratives accompanied by heartfelt letters from students and captivating portraits taken by celebrated photographers from around the country such as Peter Feldstein, Roman Cho, Paul Natkin and Laura Straus.

American Teacher introduces us to classroom heroes like Stephen Ritz of NYC's South Bronx, who uses sustainable agriculture as a tool to engage and inspire his neighborhood's most at-risk special-needs students; Rafe Esquith, a trail-blazing, multi-award-winning educator and author, who has spent 31years teaching 5th grade from within the same four walls at Hobart Elementary School in Los Angeles; and Iowan Sarah Brown Wessling who's unique "learner-centered" approach to teaching high school English earned her the 2010 National Teacher of the Year award.

These are our most unsung heroes, the men and women responsible for molding and preparing our children to meet the challenges of the 21st century. In the face of increasing class sizes, insufficient resources, and budget cuts, many of our teachers are dipping into their own pockets and personal time to bridge the gap for their students; they are finding innovative and engaging solutions to institutional problems and changing the outcome of countless lives in the process. Hear their stories, see their faces, and join us as we pay tribute to their passion and sacrifice.

Young, Gifted and Black by Asa Hilliard, III

2012-09-11T00:30:00-05:00

Young, Gifted and Black Promoting High Achievement among African-American Students
Written by Theresa Perry and Claude Steele
Edited by Asa Hilliard, III

eBook | Beacon Press | Education - Multicultural Education; Education - Essays; Education - Educational Psychology | $16.00 | 978-0-8070-9534-8 (0-8070-9534-6)

Young, Gifted, and Black is a unique joint effort by three leading African-American scholars to radically reframe the debates swirling around the achievement of African-American students in school.

In three separate but allied essays, Theresa Perry, Claude Steele, and Asa Hilliard place students' social identity as African-Americans at the very center of the discussion. They all argue that the unique social and cultural position Black students occupy, in a society which often devalues and stereotypes African American identity, fundamentally shapes students' experience of school and sets up unique obstacles. And they all argue that a proper understanding of the forces at work can lead to practical, powerful methods for promoting high achievement at all levels.

Theresa Perry argues that African-American students face dilemmas, founded in the experience of race and ethnicity in America, that make the task of achievement distinctive and difficult. (For instance: "How do I commit myself to achieve, to work hard over time in school, if I cannot predict when or under what circumstances this hard work will be acknowledged and recognized?") She uncovers a rich and powerful African- American philosophy of education, historically forged against such obstacles and capable of addressing them, by reading African-American narratives from Frederick Douglass to Maya Angelou. She carefully critiques the most popular theoretical explanations for group differences in achievement. And she lays out how educators today-in a postcivil rights era-can draw on theory and on the historical power of the African-American philosophy and tradition of education to reorganize the school experience of African-American students.

Claude Steele reports stunningly clear empirical psychological evidence that when Black students believe they are being judged as members of a stereotyped group rather than as individuals, they do worse on tests. He finds the mechanism, which he calls "stereotype threat," to be a quite general one, affecting women's performance in mathematics, for instance, where stereotypes about gender operate. He analyzes the subtle psychology of stereotype threat and reflects on the broad implications of his research for education, suggesting techniques-based again on evidence from controlled psychological experiments-that teachers and mentors and schools can use to counter stereotype threat's powerful effect.

Asa Hilliard's ends essay, against a variety of false theories and misguided views of African American achievement, and focuses on actual schools and programs and teachers around the country that allow African-American students achieve at high levels, describing what they are like and what makes them work.

Young, Gifted, and Black will change the way we think and talk about African American student achievement and will be necessary reading on this topic for years to come.

Feel-Bad Education by Alfie Kohn

2011-04-05T00:30:00-05:00

Feel-Bad Education And Other Contrarian Essays on Children and Schooling
Written by Alfie Kohn

Trade Paperback, 196 pages | Beacon Press | Education - Educational Policy & Reform; Education - Essays; Education - Testing & Measurement | $15.00 | 978-0-8070-0140-0 (0-8070-0140-6)

Mind-opening writing on what kids need from school, from one of education’s most outspoken voices

Arguing that our schools are currently in the grip of a “cult of rigor”—a confusion of harder with better that threatens to banish both joy and meaningful intellectual inquiry from our classrooms—Alfie Kohn issues a stirring call to rethink our priorities and reconsider our practices.

Kohn’s latest wide-ranging collection of writings will add to his reputation as one of the most incisive thinkers in the field, who questions the assumptions too often taken for granted in discussions about education and human behavior.

In nineteen recently published essays—and in a substantive introduction, new for this volume—Kohn repeatedly invites us to think more deeply about the conventional wisdom. Is self-discipline always desirable? he asks, citing surprising evidence to the contrary. Does academic cheating necessarily indicate a moral failing? Might inspirational posters commonly found on school walls (“Reach for the stars!”) reflect disturbing assumptions about children? Could the use of rubrics for evaluating student learning prove counterproductive?

Subjecting young children to homework, grades, or standardized tests—merely because these things will be required of them later—reminds Kohn of Monty Python’s “getting hit on the head lessons.” And, with tongue firmly in cheek, he declares that we should immediately begin teaching twenty-second-century skills.

Whether Kohn is clearing up misconceptions about progressive education or explaining why incentives for healthier living are bound to backfire, debunking the idea that education reform should be driven by concerns about economic competitiveness or putting “Supernanny” in her place, his readers will understand why the Washington Post has said that “teachers and parents who encounter Kohn and his thoughts come away transfixed, ready to change their schools.”

Feel-Bad Education by Alfie Kohn

2011-04-05T00:30:00-05:00

Feel-Bad Education And Other Contrarian Essays on Children and Schooling
Written by Alfie Kohn

eBook | Beacon Press | Education - Educational Policy & Reform; Education - Essays; Education - Testing & Measurement | $15.00 | 978-0-8070-0141-7 (0-8070-0141-4)

Mind-opening writing on what kids need from school, from one of education’s most outspoken voices

Almost no writer on schools asks us to question our fundamental assumptions about education and motivation as boldly as Alfie Kohn. The Washington Post says that “teachers and parents who encounter Kohn and his thoughts come away transfixed, ready to change their schools.” And Time magazine has called him “perhaps the country’s most outspoken critic of education’s fixation on grades [and] test scores.”

Here is challenging and entertaining writing on where we should go in American education, in Alfie Kohn’s unmistakable voice. He argues in the title essay with those who think that high standards mean joylessness in the classroom. He reflects thoughtfully on the question “Why Self-Discipline Is Overrated.” And in an essay for the New York Times, which generated enormous response, he warns against the dangers of both punishing and praising children for what they do instead of parenting “unconditionally.”

Whether he’s talking about school policy or the psychology of motivation, Kohn gives us wonderfully provocative—and utterly serious—food for thought. This new book will be greeted with enthusiasm by his many readers, and by teachers and parents seeking a refreshing perspective on today’s debates about kids and schools.

Another Kind of Public Education by Patricia Hill Collins

2010-04-01T00:30:00-05:00

Another Kind of Public Education Race, Schools, the Media, and Democratic Possibilities
Written by Patricia Hill Collins

Trade Paperback, 256 pages | Beacon Press | Education - Educational Policy & Reform; Education - Multicultural Education; Education - Essays | $21.00 | 978-0-8070-0025-0 (0-8070-0025-6)

One of America's most distinguished scholars of race shows us how public education needs to be seen in the light of the influence of "color-blind racism as a system of power." Drawing examples from schools, media, and the workplace, Collins gives us a book of social analysis that is also an energizing handbook for change.

Another Kind of Public Education by Patricia Hill Collins

2009-05-01T00:30:00-05:00

Another Kind of Public Education Race, Schools, the Media, and Democratic Possibilities
Written by Patricia Hill Collins

eBook | Beacon Press | Education - Educational Policy & Reform; Education - Multicultural Education; Education - Essays | $18.95 | 978-0-8070-9576-8 (0-8070-9576-1)

Letters to a Young Teacher by Jonathan Kozol

2008-08-05T00:30:00-05:00

Letters to a Young Teacher
Written by Jonathan Kozol

Trade Paperback, 304 pages | Broadway | Education - Guidance & Orientation; Education - Essays | $15.00 | 978-0-307-39372-2 (0-307-39372-0)

This is the book for readers of Jonathan Kozol's previous works on education, including The Shame of the Nation and On Being a Teacher; for readers of memoirs like Frank McCourt's Teacher Man; for new teachers looking for guidance and inspiration; and for educators, administrators, and children's advocates of all levels of experience.

From the award-winning author of bestsellers Shame of the Nation, Savage Inequalities, Amazing Grace, Death at an Early Age, and Ordinary Resurrections, Jonathan Kozol's most personally insightful and revealing work to date takes the form of encouraging letters to Francesca, a young classroom teacher, offering advice, personal stories, and a shared sense of outrage at the inadequacies of America's educational system.

Letters to a Young Teacher by Jonathan Kozol

2007-08-21T00:30:00-05:00

Letters to a Young Teacher
Written by Jonathan Kozol

eBook | Broadway | Education - Guidance & Orientation; Education - Essays | $13.99 | 978-0-307-40570-8 (0-307-40570-2)

In these affectionate letters to Francesca, a first grade teacher at an inner-city school in Boston, Jonathan Kozol vividly describes his repeated visits to her classroom while, under Francesca’s likably irreverent questioning, he also reveals his own most personal stories of the years that he has spent in public schools.

Letters to a Young Teacher reignites a numberof the controversial issues Jonathan has powerfully addressed in recent years: the mania of high-stakes testing that turns many classrooms into test-prep factories where spontaneity and critical intelligence are no longer valued, the invasion of our public schools by predatory private corporations, and the inequalities of urban schools that are once again almost as segregated as they were a century ago.

But most of all, these letters are rich with the happiness of teaching children, the curiosity and jubilant excitement children bring into the classroom at an early age, and their ability to overcome their insecurities when they are in the hands of an adoring and hard-working teacher.

From the Hardcover edition.

Teaching Toward Freedom by William Ayers

2005-09-01T00:30:00-05:00

Teaching Toward Freedom Moral Commitment and Ethical Action in the Classroom
Written by William Ayers

Trade Paperback, 184 pages | Beacon Press | Education - Essays; Education - Leadership; Education - Philosophy & Social Aspects | $16.00 | 978-0-8070-3269-5 (0-8070-3269-7)

For William Ayers, noted educator and activist, "the allure of teaching, that ineffable magic drawing me back to the classroom again and again, issues from an ideal that lies directly at its heart: Teaching, at its best, is an enterprise that helps human beings reach the full measure of their humanity."

In Teaching Toward Freedom, Ayers illuminates the hope as well as the conflict that characterize the entire project of education: how it can be used in authoritarian and dehumanizing ways in the service of the state, the church, or a restrictive existing social order-an idea he abhors-or, as he envisions it, as an undertaking to help students become more fully human, more engaged, more participatory, more free. Drawing on his own classroom experiences and those of his many colleagues, as well as on popular culture, film, poetry, and novels, Ayers redraws the lines concerning how we teach and why, and the surprising things we uncover when we allow students to become visible, vocal authors of their own texts and creators of their own lives.

"Committed and aware teachers," Ayers argues, "must endeavor to accomplish two crucial tasks. One is to convince students . . . that there is no such thing as receiving an education as a passive receptor or an inert vessel-in that direction lies nothing but subservience, indoctrination, and worse. All real education is and must always be self-education. The second task is to demonstrate to students . . . that they are valued, that their humanity is honored, and that their growth, enlightenment, and liberation are the paramount concern. We take the side of the student. . . ." This lucid and inspiring book will help teachers at every level to realize that ideal.

From the Hardcover edition.

The Disappointment Artist by Jonathan Lethem

2005-03-15T00:30:00-05:00

The Disappointment Artist Selected Unabridged Essays
Written by Jonathan Lethem
Read by Jonathan Lethem

Abridged Audiobook Download | Random House Audio | Education - Essays | $8.48 | 978-0-7393-1493-7 (0-7393-1493-9)

In a volume he describes as “a series of covert and no-so-covert autobiographical pieces,” Jonathan Lethem explores the nature of cultural obsession—in his case, with examples as diverse as western films, comic books, the music of Talking Heads and Pink Floyd, and the New York City subway. Along the way, he shows how each of these “voyages out from himself” have led him home—home to his father's life as a painter, and to the source of his beginnings as a writer. THE DISAPPOINTMENT ARTIST is a series of windows onto the collisions of art, landscape, and personal history that formed Lethem’s richly imaginative, searingly honest perspective on life as a human creature in the jungle of culture at the end of the twentieth century.

From a confession of the sadness of a “Star Wars nerd” to an investigation into the legacy of a would-be literary titan, Lethem illuminates the process by which a child invents himself as a writer, and as a human being, through a series of approaches to the culture around him. In “The Disappointment Artist,” a letter from his aunt, a children’s book author, spurs a meditation on the value of writing workshops, and the uncomfortable fraternity of writers. In “Defending The Searchers” Lethem explains how a passion for the classic John Wayne Western became occasion for a series of minor humiliations. In “Identifying with Your Parents,” an excavation of childhood love for superhero comics expands to cover a whole range of nostalgia for a previous generation’s cultural artifacts. And “13/1977/21,” which begins by recounting the summer he saw Star Wars twenty-one times, “slipping past ushers who’d begun to recognize me . . . occult as a porn customer,” becomes a meditation on the sorrow and solace of the solitary movie-goer.

THE DISAPPOINTMENT ARTIST confirms Lethem's unique ability to illuminate the way life, his and ours, can be read between the lines of art and culture.

Teaching Toward Freedom by William Ayers

2004-09-10T00:30:00-05:00

Teaching Toward Freedom Moral Commitment and Ethical Action in the Classroom
Written by William Ayers

eBook | Beacon Press | Education - Essays; Education - Leadership; Education - Philosophy & Social Aspects | $18.00 | 978-0-8070-3266-4 (0-8070-3266-2)

In Teaching toward Freedom, William Ayers illuminates the hope as well as the conflict that characterizes the craft of education: how it can be used in authoritarian ways at the service of the state, the church, or a restrictive existing social order-or, as he envisions it, as a way for students to become more fully human, more engaged, more participatory, more free. Using examples from his own classroom experiences as well as from popular culture, film, and novels, Ayers redraws the lines concerning how we teach, why we teach, and the surprising things we uncover when we allow students to become visible, vocal authors of their own lives and stories. This lucid and inspiring book will help teachers at every level to realize that ideal.

Great Books for High School Kids by Amy Crawford

2004-05-15T00:30:00-05:00

Great Books for High School Kids A Teachers' Guide to Books That Can Change Teens' Lives
Edited by Rick Ayers and Amy Crawford

Trade Paperback, 260 pages | Beacon Press | Education - Secondary; Education - Essays; Family & Relationships - Teenagers | $18.00 | 978-0-8070-3255-8 (0-8070-3255-7)

Teachers Rick Ayers and Amy Crawford always wanted to find a guide to the vast world of great books for teenagers-one that didn't talk down or moralize. When they couldn't find one, they set out to create it.

An early prototype offered at Cody's Bookstore in Berkeley, California, was an instant success. Great Books for High School Kids is the culmination of their efforts.

Collecting recommendations and essays from colleagues and advisers around the country, this is a rollicking, thoughtful, against-the-grain guide that challenges stodgy notions of what great books are and what kids are ready for.

The book starts with seven essays by high school teachers about exciting, exemplary experiences they have had reading books with students in the classroom-from Dorothy Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina to Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon to Aeschylus's Oresteia trilogy.

Augmented by an index of more than seventy subjects, the book also has an annotated list of hundreds of Recommended Great Books. The recommendations are playful and irreverent, ambitious and entertaining, and they go way beyond traditional reading lists. From classics to the unexpected, from literary novels to nonfiction, some drama, and even a little poetry, these are all books that teenagers have read with pleasure and can read on their own.

Great Books for High School Kids is an invitation and a sourcebook for inspiring passionate, lifelong readers-a book that could seriously change the lives of teachers, of families, and of kids.

Great Books for High School Kids by Amy Crawford

2004-05-15T00:30:00-05:00

Great Books for High School Kids A Teachers' Guide to Books That Can Change Teens' Lives
Edited by Rick Ayers and Amy Crawford

eBook | Beacon Press | Education - Secondary; Education - Essays; Family & Relationships - Teenagers | $12.95 | 978-0-8070-9710-6 (0-8070-9710-1)

What Does It Mean to Be Well Educated? by Alfie Kohn

2004-05-15T00:30:00-05:00

What Does It Mean to Be Well Educated? And More Essays on Standards, Grading, and Other Follies
Written by Alfie Kohn

eBook | Beacon Press | Education - Testing & Measurement; Education - Essays; Education - Educational Policy & Reform | $16.00 | 978-0-8070-9712-0 (0-8070-9712-8)

Few writers ask us to question our fundamental assumptions about education as provocatively as Alfie Kohn. Time magazine has called him'perhaps the country's most outspoken critic of education's fixation on grades [and] test scores.' And the Washington Post says he is 'the most energetic and charismatic figure standing in the way of a major federal effort to make standardized curriculums and tests a fact of life in every U.S. school.'

In this new collection of essays, Kohn takes on some of the most important and controversial topics in education of the last few years. His central focus is on the real goals of education-a topic, he argues, that we systematically ignore while lavishing attention on misguided models of learning and counterproductive techniques of motivation.

The shift to talking about goals yields radical conclusions and wonderfully pungent essays that only Alfie Kohn could have written. From the title essay's challenge to conventional, conservative definitions of a good education to essays on standards and testing and grades that tally the severe educational costs of overemphasizing a narrow conception of achievement, Kohn boldly builds on his earlier work and writes for a wide audience.

Kohn's new book will be greeted with enthusiasm by his many readers and by any teacher or parent looking for a refreshing perspective on today's debates about schools.

From the Trade Paperback edition.

What Does It Mean to Be Well Educated? by Alfie Kohn

2004-05-15T00:30:00-05:00

What Does It Mean to Be Well Educated? And More Essays on Standards, Grading, and Other Follies
Written by Alfie Kohn

Trade Paperback, 212 pages | Beacon Press | Education - Testing & Measurement; Education - Essays; Education - Educational Policy & Reform | $16.00 | 978-0-8070-3267-1 (0-8070-3267-0)

Young, Gifted, and Black by Asa Hilliard, III

2004-02-02T00:30:00-05:00

Young, Gifted, and Black Promoting High Achievement among African-American Students
Written by Theresa Perry and Claude Steele
Edited by Asa Hilliard, III

Trade Paperback, 192 pages | Beacon Press | Education - Multicultural Education; Education - Essays; Education - Educational Psychology | $16.00 | 978-0-8070-3105-6 (0-8070-3105-4)

The Great Rip-Off in American Education by Mel Scarlett

2004-01-01T00:30:00-05:00

The Great Rip-Off in American Education Undergrads Underserved
Written by Mel Scarlett

Trade Paperback, 220 pages | Prometheus Books | Education - Essays; Education - Higher | $24.99 | 978-1-59102-031-8 (1-59102-031-X)

While reports of poor teaching at the elementary and secondary school level have unleashed widespread public outcry for reform, little attention has been paid to the quality of teaching in colleges and universities. Yet according to the National Commission on Educating Undergraduates in the Research University, "universities have too often failed, and continue to fail their undergraduate populations," and "the students paying the tuition get, in all too many cases, less than their money's worth."
Citing this report and other similar studies, experienced university administrator Dr. Mel Scarlett criticizes the deficits of the current undergraduate educational system and suggests improvements that would ensure that college students get the education they're paying for. Among his suggestions for reform are:
Renewed emphasis on teaching skills in Ph.D. programs to ensure that those who do teach have some pedagogical training besides their special expertise
The more active role of experienced professors in the teaching of undergraduates to reverse the current trend of using graduate assistants or part-time faculty to teach lower-level courses
Encouraging studentsÆ active participation in the learning process as opposed to the passive learning model of the lecture method
An adjustment of the university's publish-or-perish reward system, which stresses research and ignores teaching.
Dr. Scarlett lists a total of 20 ôdeadly sinsö committed by universities against undergraduates and 80 improvements that would help to reform the current inadequate higher educational system.
This hard-hitting critique will serve as a wake-up call to university administrators and faculty, as well as to the average parent or prospective college student facing ever- increasing tuition costs.

Why We Still Need Public Schools by Art Must

1992-04-01T00:30:00-05:00

Why We Still Need Public Schools
Edited by Art Must

Trade Paperback, 311 pages | Prometheus Books | Education - Essays | $23.99 | 978-0-87975-758-8 (0-87975-758-2)

Two cornerstones of American democracy - separation of church and state, and public schools - are under increasing attack. As this collection of essays, written by some of America's leading educators, political figures, and advocates of religious liberty shows, universal public education and the separation of church and state are related. The eminent contributors to this book argue that we need to defend both institutions against increasing onslaughts by the Religious Right and other self-proclaimed arbiters of societal behavior, who seek to dictate public policy and who are labeling the public schools themselves as "immoral" institutions. At issue here is not whether public schools need to be improved. It is assumed that improvement is necessary.

Part One of this volume testifies to the need for separation of church and state, explores the intent of our nation's founders on the subject, and deals with issues of separation within education. Several historical examples are given of battles between the upholders of strict separation and those who would ignore this constitutionally mandated principle.

Part Two discusses the dangers of heeding the current call - under the banner of school "choice" - to ingore the principle of separation by allowing public tuition subsidies of private schools, the great majority of which are parochial. This drive to underwrite school tuition via vouchers, tax credits, or tuition tax deductions would create not only a dangerous entanglement of government with religion but could lead to the eventual demise of America's public schools.

Contributors to this important collection are Robert Alley, Ann Bastian, Charles Bergstrom, Robert Bullough, Michael Casserly, Edd Doerr, Arnold Fege, Florence Fast, Donald Frey, Colin Greer, Herbert Grover, T. Jeremy Gunn, Bill Honig, Shirley McBay, Al Menendez, Michael Oleska, Sam Rabinove, William Rioux, William Schulz, Eugenie Scott, August Steinhilber, John Swomley, Oliver Thomas, Julie Underwood, and James Wood.

Random House New Releases - Education - Essays

American Teacher by Parker J. Palmer

American Teacher Heroes in the ClassroomWritten by Katrina Fried Foreword by Parker J. Palmer

Young, Gifted and Black by Asa Hilliard, III

Young, Gifted and Black Promoting High Achievement among African-American StudentsWritten by Theresa Perry and Claude Steele Edited by Asa Hilliard, III

Feel-Bad Education by Alfie Kohn

Feel-Bad Education And Other Contrarian Essays on Children and SchoolingWritten by Alfie Kohn

Feel-Bad Education by Alfie Kohn

Feel-Bad Education And Other Contrarian Essays on Children and SchoolingWritten by Alfie Kohn

Another Kind of Public Education by Patricia Hill Collins

Another Kind of Public Education Race, Schools, the Media, and Democratic PossibilitiesWritten by Patricia Hill Collins

Another Kind of Public Education by Patricia Hill Collins

Another Kind of Public Education Race, Schools, the Media, and Democratic PossibilitiesWritten by Patricia Hill Collins

Letters to a Young Teacher by Jonathan Kozol

Letters to a Young Teacher Written by Jonathan Kozol

Letters to a Young Teacher by Jonathan Kozol

Letters to a Young Teacher Written by Jonathan Kozol

Teaching Toward Freedom by William Ayers

Teaching Toward Freedom Moral Commitment and Ethical Action in the ClassroomWritten by William Ayers

The Disappointment Artist by Jonathan Lethem

The Disappointment Artist Selected Unabridged EssaysWritten by Jonathan Lethem Read by Jonathan Lethem

Teaching Toward Freedom by William Ayers

Teaching Toward Freedom Moral Commitment and Ethical Action in the ClassroomWritten by William Ayers

Great Books for High School Kids by Amy Crawford

Great Books for High School Kids A Teachers' Guide to Books That Can Change Teens' LivesEdited by Rick Ayers and Amy Crawford

Great Books for High School Kids by Amy Crawford

Great Books for High School Kids A Teachers' Guide to Books That Can Change Teens' LivesEdited by Rick Ayers and Amy Crawford

What Does It Mean to Be Well Educated? by Alfie Kohn

What Does It Mean to Be Well Educated? And More Essays on Standards, Grading, and Other FolliesWritten by Alfie Kohn

What Does It Mean to Be Well Educated? by Alfie Kohn

What Does It Mean to Be Well Educated? And More Essays on Standards, Grading, and Other FolliesWritten by Alfie Kohn

Young, Gifted, and Black by Asa Hilliard, III

Young, Gifted, and Black Promoting High Achievement among African-American StudentsWritten by Theresa Perry and Claude Steele Edited by Asa Hilliard, III

The Great Rip-Off in American Education by Mel Scarlett

The Great Rip-Off in American Education Undergrads UnderservedWritten by Mel Scarlett

Why We Still Need Public Schools by Art Must

Why We Still Need Public Schools Edited by Art Must

American Teacher Heroes in the Classroom
Written by Katrina Fried
Foreword by Parker J. Palmer

Young, Gifted and Black Promoting High Achievement among African-American Students
Written by Theresa Perry and Claude Steele
Edited by Asa Hilliard, III

Feel-Bad Education And Other Contrarian Essays on Children and Schooling
Written by Alfie Kohn

Feel-Bad Education And Other Contrarian Essays on Children and Schooling
Written by Alfie Kohn

Another Kind of Public Education Race, Schools, the Media, and Democratic Possibilities
Written by Patricia Hill Collins

Another Kind of Public Education Race, Schools, the Media, and Democratic Possibilities
Written by Patricia Hill Collins

Letters to a Young Teacher
Written by Jonathan Kozol

Letters to a Young Teacher
Written by Jonathan Kozol

Teaching Toward Freedom Moral Commitment and Ethical Action in the Classroom
Written by William Ayers

The Disappointment Artist Selected Unabridged Essays
Written by Jonathan Lethem
Read by Jonathan Lethem

Teaching Toward Freedom Moral Commitment and Ethical Action in the Classroom
Written by William Ayers

Great Books for High School Kids A Teachers' Guide to Books That Can Change Teens' Lives
Edited by Rick Ayers and Amy Crawford

Great Books for High School Kids A Teachers' Guide to Books That Can Change Teens' Lives
Edited by Rick Ayers and Amy Crawford

What Does It Mean to Be Well Educated? And More Essays on Standards, Grading, and Other Follies
Written by Alfie Kohn

What Does It Mean to Be Well Educated? And More Essays on Standards, Grading, and Other Follies
Written by Alfie Kohn

Young, Gifted, and Black Promoting High Achievement among African-American Students
Written by Theresa Perry and Claude Steele
Edited by Asa Hilliard, III

The Great Rip-Off in American Education Undergrads Underserved
Written by Mel Scarlett

Why We Still Need Public Schools
Edited by Art Must