As schools scramble to meet the standards associated with No Child Left Behind, it’s good to know there are still individuals who take the time to appreciate the qualities of accomplished students.
(April 20, 2007)
In Widening the Circle, Mara Sapon-Shevin, a professor of education at Syracuse University, makes a compelling case that inclusion helps everyone in a school.
(April 20, 2007)
Pledging Allegiance may be this year’s most important education book, not simply because of its star-studded list of contributors, but for the way they examine the meaning and teachability of patriotism in post-9/11 America.
(April 20, 2007)
Marietta McCarty hopes to fan the love of wisdom not only in adult readers, but also in kids.
(February 26, 2007)
David Williamson Shaffer begins his book with a series of dire warnings: “The news is chilling. ... The statistics are alarming. ... [W]e are facing a national crisis.”
(February 26, 2007)
David Elkind, professor of child development at Tufts University and author of The Hurried Child, laments in his latest book the disappearance of spontaneous, self-initiated play from kids’ lives.
(February 26, 2007)
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)
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