Public Education Bibliography

[Arranged by Author]

(Click HERE for an annotated bibliography, latest update December 19, 2018)
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Samuel E. Abrams

Education and the Commercial Mindset by Samuel E. Abrams, 2016


Frank Adamson, Bjorn Astrand, and Linda Darling-Hammond

Global Education Reform: How Privatization and Public Investment Influence Education Outcomes by Frank Adamson, Bjorn Astrand, Linda Darling-Hammond, 2016


Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

Rethinking Value-Added Models in Education: Critical Perspectives on Tests and Assessment-Based Accountability by Audrey Amrein-Beardsley, 2014


Wayne Au, Dyan Watson, and Jesse Hagopian

Teaching for Black Lives Edited By Dyan Watson, Jesse Hagopian, Wayne Au, 2018


William Ayers, Crystal Laura, Rick Ayers

You Can't Fire the Bad Ones!: And 18 Other Myths about Teachers, Teachers Unions, and Public Education by William Ayers, Crystal Laura, Rick Ayers, 2018


Nancy E. Bailey

Losing America's Schools: The Fight to Reclaim Public Education by Nancy E. Bailey, 2016


Bruce D. Baker

Educational Inequality and School Finance: Why Money Matters for America's Students by Bruce D. Baker, 2018


David C. Berliner and Bruce J. Biddle

The Manufactured Crisis: Myths, Fraud, And The Attack On America's Public Schools by David C. Berliner, Bruce J. Biddle, 1996


David C. Berliner, Gene V. Glass, et al

50 Myths and Lies That Threaten America's Public Schools: The Real Crisis in Education by David C. Berliner, Gene V Glass, and Associates, 2014


David C. Berliner and Sharon L. Nichols

Collateral Damage: How High-Stakes Testing Corrupts America's Schools by Sharon L. Nichols, David C. Berliner, 2007


Gerald W. Bracey

Education Hell: Rhetoric vs. Reality by Gerald W. Bracey, 2009

On the Death of Childhood and the Destruction of Public Schools: The Folly of Today's Education Policies and Practices by Gerald W. Bracey, 2003


Carol Burris

On the Same Track: How Schools Can Join the Twenty-First-Century Struggle against Resegregation by Carol Corbett Burris, 2014


Prudence L. Carter, Kevin G. Welner

Closing the Opportunity Gap: What America Must Do to Give Every Child an Even Chance, by Prudence L. Carter, Kevin G. Welner, 2014


Sam Chaltain

Our School: Searching for Community in the Era of Choice, by Sam Chaltain, 2014


Ta-Nehisi Coates

Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates, 2015


Anthony Cody

The Educator and the Oligarch: A Teacher Challenges the Gates Foundation by Anthony Cody, 2014


Linda Darling-Hammond

The Flat World and Education: How America's Commitment to Equity Will Determine Our Future by Linda Darling-Hammond, 2010


Linda Darling-Hammond, Frank Adamson and Bjorn Astrand

Global Education Reform: How Privatization and Public Investment Influence Education Outcomes by Frank Adamson, Bjorn Astrand, Linda Darling-Hammond, 2016


Ted Dintersmith

What School Could Be: Insights and Inspiration from Teachers Across America by Ted Dintersmith 2018


Richard DuFour

In Praise of American Educators: And How They Can Become Even Better by Richard DuFour, 2015


Susan DuFresne

The History of Institutional Racism in U.S. Public Schools, by Susan DuFresne, 2018


David Ellison

Bloodletting: Why Education Reform is Killing America’s Schools, by David Ellison, 2014


Kathy Emery and Susan Ohanian

Why Is Corporate America Bashing Our Public Schools?, by Kathy Emery and Susan Ohanian, 2004


Eve L. Ewing

Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side by Eve L. Ewing, 2018


Katherine Farber

Why Great Teachers Quit: And How We Might Stop the Exodus by Katherine Farber, 2015


Todd Farley

Making the Grades: My Misadventures in the Standardized Testing Industry by Todd Farley, 2009


Andrea Gabor

After the Education Wars: How Smart Schools Upend the Business of Reform by Andrea Gabor, 2018


Elaine M. Garan

In Defense of Our Children: When Politics, Profit, and Education Collide by Elaine M. Garan, 2004


Anand Giridharadas

Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World by Anand Giridharadas, 2018


Dana Goldstein

The Teacher Wars: A History of America's Most Embattled Profession Edited by Dana Goldstein, 2014


David Greene

Doing the Right Thing: A Teacher Speaks, by David Greene, 2013


Jesse Hagopian

More Than a Score: The New Uprising Against High-Stakes Testing Edited by Jesse Hagopian, Foreword by Diane Ravitch, 2014


Jesse Hagopian, Dyan Watson, and Wayne Au

Teaching for Black Lives Edited By Dyan Watson, Jesse Hagopian, Wayne Au, 2018


Mel Hawkins

Reinventing Education, Hope, and the American Dream: The Challenge for Twenty-First Century America by Mel Hawkins, 2014


Bob Herbert

Losing Our Way: An Intimate Portrait of a Troubled America, by Bob Herbert, 2015


Shannon Hernandez

Breaking the Silence: My Final Forty Days as a Public School Teacher, by Shannon Hernandez, 2014


Jim Horn and Denise Wilburn

The Mismeasure of Education by Jim Horn and Denise Wilburn, 2013


Karen Horwitz

White Chalk Crime: the REAL Reason Schools Fail: Untold story of crime that has destroyed our schools and how teacher abuse and teacher cleansing have kept this from You by Karen Horwitz, 2008


A. Patrick Huff

The Takeover of Public Education in America: The Agenda to Control Information and Knowledge Through the Accountability System by A. Patrick Huff, 2015


David W. Hursh

The End of Public Schools: The Corporate Reform Agenda to Privatize Education by David W. Hursh, 2016


Alfie Kohn

The Case Against Standardized Testing by Alfie Kohn, 2000

Feel-Bad Education: And Other Contrarian Essays on Children and Schooling by Alfie Kohn, 2011

Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes by Alfie Kohn, 1999

What to Look for in a Classroom: ...and Other Essays by Alfie Kohn, 2000


Daniel Koretz

The Testing Charade: Pretending to Make Schools Better by Daniel Koretz, University of Chicago Press, 2017


Jonathan Kozol

Books by Jonathan Kozol

Amazing Grace 1995
Death at an Early Age 1985
Fire in the Ashes 2013
Ordinary Resurrections 2012
Savage Inequalities 2012
The Shame of the Nation 2006


John Kuhn

Fear and Learning in America - Bad Data, Good Teachers, and the Attack on Public Education by John Kuhn, 2014

Test and Punish: How the Texas Education Model Gave America Accountability without Equity by John Kuhn, 2013


Kevin K. Kumashiro

Bad Teacher! How Blaming Teachers Distorts the Bigger Picture by Kevin K. Kumashiro, 2012


Crystal Laura, William Ayers, Rick Ayers

You Can't Fire the Bad Ones!: And 18 Other Myths about Teachers, Teachers Unions, and Public Education by William Ayers, Crystal Laura, Rick Ayers, 2018


Tom Little and Katherine Ellison

Loving Learning: How Progressive Education Can Save America's Schools by Tom Little and Katherine Ellison, 2015


Lloyd Lofthouse

Crazy is Normal: a classroom exposé, by Lloyd Lofthouse, 2014


Christopher Lubienski and Sarah Lubienski

The Public School Advantage: Why Public Schools Outperform Private Schools by Christopher A. Lubienski, Sarah Theule Lubienski, 2013


Darren Marelli and Mollie Bruhn

American Classroom: Portraits from a Public School in Harlem by Darren Marelli and Mollie Bruhn, 2014


Terry Marselle

Perfectly Incorrect: Why The Common Core Is Psychologically And Cognitively Unsound by Terry Marselle, 2015


Doug Martin

Hoosier School Heist by Doug Martin, 2014


Morna McDermott, Peggy Robertson et. al

An Activist Handbook for the Education Revolution: United Opt Out’s Test of Courage, by Morna McDermott, Peggy Robertson et. al, 2015


Deborah Meier and Emily Gasoi

THESE SCHOOLS BELONG TO YOU AND ME: Why We Can't Afford to Abandon Our Public Schools by Deborah Meier and Emily Gasoi, 2017


John Merrow

Addicted to Reform: A 12-Step Program to Rescue Public Education by John Merrow, 2017


Domingo Morel

Takeover: Race, Education, and American Democracy, by Domingo Morel, 2018


Brett Murphy, Editor

Inside our Schools: Teachers on the failure and future of education reform, edited by Brett Murphy, 2017


Mark Naison

Badass Teachers Unite! Reflections on Education, History, and Youth Activism, by Mark Naison, 2014


Linda Nathan

When Grit Isn't Enough: A High School Principal Examines How Poverty and Inequality Thwart the College-for-All Promise by Linda Nathan, 2017


Steve Nelson

First, Do No Harm: Progressive Education in a Time of Existential Risk by Steve Nelson, 2016


Sharon L. Nichols and David C. Berliner

Collateral Damage: How High-Stakes Testing Corrupts America's Schools by Sharon L. Nichols, David C. Berliner, 2007


Kris L Nielsen

Children of the Core by Kris L Nielsen, 2013


Susan Ohanian

One Size Fits Few:The Folly of Educational Standards by Susan Ohanian, 1999

What Happened to Recess and Why Are Our Children Struggling in Kindergarten? by Susan Ohanian, 2002

Why Is Corporate America Bashing Our Public Schools?, by Kathy Emery and Susan Ohanian, 2004


John Owens

Confessions of a Bad Teacher by John Owens, 2013


Diane Ravitch

Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools by Diane Ravitch, 2013

The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education by Diane Ravitch, 2011


Shani Robinson and Anna Simonton

None of the Above: The Untold Story of the Atlanta Public Schools Cheating Scandal, Corporate Greed, and the Criminalization of Educators by Shani Robinson and Anna Simonton, 2019


Noliwe M. Rooks

Cutting School: Privatization, Segregation, and the End of Public Education by Noliwe M. Rooks, 2017


Dale Russakoff

The Prize: Who's In Charge of America's Schools by Dale Russakoff, 2016


Howard Ryan

Educational Justice: Teaching and Organizing Against the Corporate Juggernaut by Howard Ryan, 2016


Pasi Sahlberg

Finnish Lessons: What can the world learn from educational change in Finland? by Pasi Sahlberg, 2010


Jack Schneider

Beyond Test Scores: A Better Way to Measure School Quality by Jack Schneider, 2017


Mercedes Schneider

A Chronicle of Echoes: Who’s Who in the Implosion of American Public Education by Mercedes K. Schneider, 2014

Common Core Dilemma: Who Owns Our Schools? by Mercedes K. Schneider, 2015


Anna Simonton and Shani Robinson

None of the Above: The Untold Story of the Atlanta Public Schools Cheating Scandal, Corporate Greed, and the Criminalization of Educators by Shani Robinson and Anna Simonton, 2019


Steven Singer

Gadfly on the Wall: A Public School Teacher Speaks Out on Racism and Reform, by Steven Singer, 2017


Nicholas Tampio

Common Core: National Education Standards and the Threat to Democracy, Nicholas Tampio, 2018


Denny Taylor, et al

United We Stand Divided We Fall: Opposing Trump’s Agenda – Essays on Protest and Resistance, Denny Taylor, et al, Garn Press, 2017


P. L. Thomas

Beware the Roadbuilders: Literature as Resistance by P. L. Thomas, 2015


Jose Vilson

This Is Not A Test: A New Narrative on Race, Class, and Education by José Vilson, Foreword by Karen Lewis, 2014


Jamie Vollmer

Schools Cannot Do It Alone by Jamie Vollmer, 2010


Timothy D. Walker

Teach Like Finland: 33 Simple Strategies for Joyful Classrooms by Timothy D. Walker


Russ Walsh

A Parent’s Guide to Public Education in the 21st Century:Navigating Education Reform to get the Best Education For My Child by Russ Walsh, 2016


Dyan Watson, Jesse Hagopian, and Wayne Au

Teaching for Black Lives Edited By Dyan Watson, Jesse Hagopian, Wayne Au, 2018


L. Weiner and M. Compton

The Global Assault on Teaching, Teachers, and their Unions: Stories for Resistance by L. Weiner, M. Compton, 2008


Yong Zhao

Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Dragon: Why China Has the Best (and Worst) Education System in the World, by Yong Zhao, 2014

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This list updated: December 20, 2018

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