Education Books

	City Schools: Lessons from New York by Diane Ravitch and Joseph Viteritti (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.) An in-depth look at the nation's largest school system by researchers and educators who explore topics such as the changing demographics of city schools, the impending teacher shortage, reading instruction, special education, bilingual education, school governance, charter schools, choice, school finance reform, and collective bargaining. more info...
	In Schools We Trust: Creating Communities of Learning in an Era of Testing and Standardization by Deborah Meier (Beacon Press, 2002.) According to Meier, the current educational panacea, increased standardized testing, will do nothing to create academic excellence. From her own experience developing and running alternative public schools, Meier believes schools must be small, self-governed places of choice, so students and their families feel part of communities of learning. more info...
	New York City’s Best Public Elementary Schools: A Parents’ Guide Public Middle Schools: New York City’s Best New York City’s Best Public High Schools: A Parents’ Guide by Clara Hemphill (Teachers College Press, .) Written by an award-winning journalist, this series of books is indispensable for finding the best the New York City public schools have to offer. more info...
	Other People’s Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom by Lisa D. Delpit (New Press, 1996.) An analysis of the power imbalances and dynamics of inequality at work in public school classrooms today and their effects on children of color by a MacArthur-Award-winning author. more info...
	Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s Schools by Jonathan Kozol (Harper Perennial, 1992.) A former teacher, Kozol has written many books on the effects of poverty and racism on young children. This is his classic exposé of the coexisting extremes of wealth and poverty in our public schools. more info...
	The Right to Learn: A Blueprint for Creating Schools That Work by Linda Darling-Hammond (Jossey-Bass, 2001. 394 pp.) A former Teachers College professor and one of the country’s most well-respected educators, Darling-Hammond uses her knowledge of what works in New York City and elsewhere to describe the changes in policy and practice "needed to make all of our schools both learner centered and learning centered." more info...