Despite its smokin’ hot title, this book by award-winning teacher Rafe Esquith makes for cold, soggy reading.
(December 22, 2006)
In The Storm: Students of Biloxi, Mississippi, Remember Hurricane Katrina, children's author Barbara Barbieri McGrath has collected writings, drawings, and paintings by Biloxi public school students who endured Katrina, the costliest natural disaster in U.S. history.
(December 22, 2006)
Susan Eaton meticulously follows the ups and downs of an 18-year-long, still-running legal battle, Sheff v. O’Neill, launched by a team of civil rights lawyers who hoped to end de facto racial segregation in Connecticut schools.
(December 22, 2006)
Alfie Kohn, author of such standbys of progressive educational literature as Punished by Rewards and The Schools Our Children Deserve, aims in his latest book to expose the injustice and general worthlessness of homework. He is part of a growing trend.
(November 10, 2006)
Eighty-one years after the Scopes “monkey trial,” the religious right is still trying to control the public school science curriculum.
(November 10, 2006)
You don’t need much imagination to see this book as a movie. It has all the ingredients to warm the hearts of an audience. Picture Stand and Deliver meets Hoosiers.
(November 10, 2006)
When Ric Klass closed his private equity firm in affluent Greenwich, Connecticut, to become a math teacher at an unnamed New York City school he refers to as Central Bronx High, he wanted to live the whole movie—the one in which an idealistic teacher triumphs over the odds to transform the dead-end lives of inner city kids.
(September 29, 2006)
Students don’t have to paint like Da Vinci to make worthwhile art, and teachers who have never picked up a paintbrush can still use collaborative art projects to enrich their teaching and the world at large.
(September 29, 2006)
In this book, Gary Gordon, vice president and practice leader of The Gallup Organization’s education division, attempts to explain why schools haven't improved despite reform efforts.
(September 29, 2006)
Stanford University professor Nel Noddings, the author of several notable books on progressive education, does not much like conventional schooling.
(August 12, 2006)
The reader gets the impression from Hothouse Kids—the title refers to children whose extraordinary gifts are nurtured in controlled environments—that precociousness is springing up everywhere these days.
(August 12, 2006)
This book, edited by Pedro A. Noguera and Jean Yonemura Wing, focuses on efforts to close the racial achievement gap in schools.
(August 12, 2006)
E.D. Hirsch proposes a national curriculum to overcome the reading gap between American social groups.
(April 14, 2006)
For her book Gunstories: Life-Changing Experiences With Guns, writer-photographer S. Beth Atkin interviewed dozens of teenagers who’d experienced the effects, both positive and negative, of guns on their lives.
(April 14, 2006)
Two award-winning high school teachers and hall-of-fame debate team discuss the five so-called truths that inspire students to succeed.
(April 14, 2006)
Author Patricia Albjerg Graham looks at how American public schools meet the nation's changing needs.
(April 14, 2006)
An inner-city principal looks back at her push to introduce a private-school curriculum.
(February 17, 2006)
For author Dale L. Brubaker, style is substance when it comes to school leadership.
(February 17, 2006)
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