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welcome your comments or links to other reviews.
Alphabetical by Author A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M|N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|X|Z
Berliner, David C
The Manufactured Crisis: Myths, Fraud and the Attack on
America's Public Schools (with Bruce J. Biddle) (see
reviews here,
here,
and here
(review #1 and link of published works here)
Biddle, Bruce
Untested Accusation: Principals, Research Knowledge and
Policy Making in Schools (will Saha Lawrence) (see review here)
Boutwell, Clinton (Phi Dleta Kappa, 1997)
Shell Game: Corporate America's Agenda for Schools (see
review here
(review #9, and here
(2nd review)) Bissex, Glenda L.
GNYS AT WRK: A Child Learns to Read and Write (interesting
thread on people who fear writing mentions the book here
about half-way down)
Partial Truths: A Memoir & Essays
on Reading, Writing and Researching (see review here)
Bracey, Gerald (see bio here)
On the Death of Childhood and the
Destruction of Public Schools: The Folly of Today's Education
Policies and Practices
Put to the Test: An Educator's and Consumer's Guide to
Standardized Testing (see reviews here
and here)
Setting the Record Straight: Responses
and Misconceptions about Public Education in the United States
(see review here)
The Truth about America's Public Schools: The Bracey Reports,
1991-1997 (see review here)
Understanding Educational Statistics:
It's Easier (And More Important) Than You Think
The War Against America's Public Schools: Privatizing
Schools, Commercializing Education (see reviews here
and here)
Bail Me Out!: Handling
Difficult Data and Tough Questions About Public Schools (see
reviews here
and here)
(see article about Bracey here,
and book review, including review of other writers here)
(top)
Burns, Marilyn
Math By All Means (with Susan Ohanian)
Calkins, Lucy
Raising Lifelong Learners: A Parent's Guide (With
Lydia Bellino) (see reviews here,
here,
and here)
Cohen, Miriam
First Grade Takes a Test
Coles, Gerald
Misreading Reading (see reviews here,
here,
and here
at review #6)
Reading Lessons: The Debate Over
Literacy
The Learning Mystique: A Critical Look at "Learning
Disabilities"
Reading the Naked Truth
Fleischer, Cathy
Teachers Organizing for Change: Making Literacy
Learning Everybody's Business
Gardner, Howard
The Disciplined Mind: What All Students Should
Understand
Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple
Intelligences
Multiple Intelligences: The Theory in Practice
Gatto, John Taylor
Dumbing Us Down
(see review (at Amazon) here
and others here,
here
, here
and here)
A Different Kind of Teacher
(see review (at Amazon)
here
and here)
Underground History of American Education
(see review here)
The Exhausted School
Article:
The Six Lesson School Teacher
Article:
Excerpts
(see reviews for above and other articles mentioned here)
(top)
Goodman, Ken
In Defense of Good Teaching: What Teachers Need to Know
about the "Reading Wars" (editor) (see review
(#2) here)
Phonics Phacts
(see reviews here)
What's Whole in Whole Language
On Reading
(see several reviews for the
above here
(scroll down a bit to see the information))
Green, Maxine
The Dialectic of Freedom
(See Article here)
Henry, Peter
Becoming Mr. Henry
(see reviews here,
here,
and here)
Hutchinson, Jaylynne
Students on the Margins: Education, Stories, Dignity (SUNY
Series - Urban Voices, Urban Visions)
Johnston, Peter
Constructive Evaluation of Literate Activity (out
of print) (see review here)
Knowing Literacy: Constructive
Literacy Assessment (see review here)
Keresty, Barbara (with Susan O'Leary and Dale Wortley)
You Can Make a Difference: A Teacher's Guide to
Political Action (see review (#9) here)
Kohn, Alfie
Unconditional Parenting : Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason
(see reviews here,
here
and here,
and interview here)
The Case Against Standardized
Testing (see reviews here,
here
and here)
Education, Inc.: Turning Learning Into a Business
(revised edition) (with Patrick Shannon) (see review here)
No Contest: A Case Against Competition
(see reviews here,
here
and here)
Punished By Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive
Plans, A's, and Other Bribes (see reviews here,
here
and here
and response site here)
The Schools our Children Deserve: Moving
Beyond Traditional Classrooms and "Tougher
Standards"
What to Look for in a Classroom and Other Essays
Kozol, Jonathon (see bio here)
Savage Inequalities: Children in American Schools (see
review here
and reviews on several in this list (and others) here)
Amazing Grace
The
World Traveler (web site with excerpts from articles
and books)
Ordinary Resurrections (see
review here)
The Night is Dark and I Am Far From Home
(top)
Krasnen, Stephen
Three Arguments Against Whole Language and Why They are
Wrong (see review (#5) here)
McNeil, Linda (see transcript
from interview on CNN here)
Contradictions of School Reform: Educational Costs of
Standardized Testing (Critical Social
Thought) (see reviews here,
here
)
Contradictions of School Reform: Structure and School
Missing a Voice: Critical Pedagogy and
the Possibilities of Democratic Teaching
Numbers and Power (2004)
McQuillian, Jeff
The Literacy Crisis: False Claims, Real Solutions
(see review (#3) here)
Meier, Deborah
Will Standards Save Public Education (see review here)
The Power of Their Ideas: Lessons
from America from a Small School in Harlem (see review here)
Educating a Democracy (see review here)
In Schools We Trust: Creating
Communities of Learning in an Era of Testing and Standardization
(see review here)
Meltz, Barbara F.
Put Yourself in Their Shoes: Understanding How Your
Children See the World
Ohanian, Susan (see her
website on Educational Atrocities here)
What Happened to Recess and Why are Our Children Struggling
in Kindergarten?
Caught in the Middle: Nonstandard
Kids and a Killing Curriculum
One Size Fits Few: The Folly of Educational Standards
(see review (#4) here)
(see reviews for above books (posted from other sources
on her website) here)
See Article:
One Size Fits Few
(top)
Olglan, Gerald
Parents, Learning and Whole Language in Classrooms
Paley, Vivian
The Kindness of Children
You Can't Say You Can't Play
Palmer, Parker J.
The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of
a Teacher's Life
Pang, Val
Multicultural Education: A Caring-Centered Reflective
Approach
Phelps, Richard
Kill the Messenger: The War on Standardized Testing
(see information/reviews here)
Popham, James W.
The Truth About Testing: An Educator's Call to Action (see
reviews here)
Ross, E. Wayne
The Social Studies Curriculum: Purposes, Problems and
Possibilities (SUNY Series - Theory, Research and
Practices in Social Education)
Teacher Personal Theorizing: Connecting Curriculum,
Practice, Theory and Research (SUNY Series - Teacher Prep
and Development)
Rothman, Robert
Measuring Up
Rothstein, Richard
The Way We Were
Sacks, Peter
Standardized Minds: The High Price of America's Testing
Culture and What We Can Do to Change It
(top)
Seuss, Dr.
Hooray for Diffendoofer Day! (with Jack Prelutsky
and Lane Smith)
Sizer, Ted
Horace's School: Redesigning the American High School (see
review here)
Horace's Compromise: The Dilemma of the American High
School
Horace's Hope: What Works for the
American High School (see reviews here
and here)
The Student's are Watching: Schools and the Moral Contract (see
review here)
Standards and School Reform: Asking the
Essential Questions (see review here)
Smith, Frank
Insult to Intelligence: The Bureaucratic Invasion of
our Classrooms (see review (at Amazon) here
and another here)
Joining the Literacy Club (see review here
(on Susan Ohanian's site))
Between Hope and Havoc: Essays into Human Learning and
Education
Unspeakable Acts, Unnatural Practices:
Flaws and Fallacies in "Scientific" Reading
Instruction (2003)
The Book of Learning and Forgetting (see review here
(scroll down a bit))
To Think
Solnit, David (editor)
Globalize Liberation: How to Uproot the System and Build a Better World
Taylor, Denny
Beginning to Read and the Spin Doctors of Science: The
Political Campaign to Change America's Mind about How Children
Learn to Read (see review (#7) here)
From the Child's Point of View
Tierney, Robert J.
Portfolio Assessment in the Reading-Writing Classroom
Reading Strategies and Practices: A
Compendium
Understanding Reader's Understanding: Theory and Practice
Verlee-Williams, Linda
Teaching for the Two-Sided Mind: A Guide to Right
Brain/Left Brain Education
Welsh, Patrick
Tales Out of School: A Teacher's Candid Account from
the Front Lines of the American High School
(top)
Wheelock, Anne
Alternatives to Tracking and Ability Grouping
Crossing the Tracks: How "Untracking"
Can Save America's Schools
Safe to Be Smart: Building a Culture for Standards-Based
Reform in the Middle Grades
Willis, Paul
Learning to Labor
Wilson, Thomas A.
Reaching for a Better Standard: English School
Inspections and the Dilemma of Accountability for American
Schools (The Series on School Reform)
Woods, George
Schools that Work: America's Most Innovative Public
Education Program
A Time to Learn
Additional Resources
Influential Organizations
Position Statements
Websites on Testing
Other State Activist Organizations
Archives
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