[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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