Northeast Indiana Friends of Public Education has put together a wonderful bibliography of public education sources. If you are interested in learning more about the issues in public education, below is a great place to start. You can also find a more detailed list here
Audrey Amrein-Beardsley
Rethinking Value-Added Models in Education: Critical Perspectives on Tests and Assessment-Based Accountability by Audrey Amrein-Beardsley, 2014
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 Educationby David C. Berliner, Gene V Glass, and Associates, 2014
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
Linda Darling-Hammond
The Flat World and Education: How America's Commitment to Equity Will Determine Our Future by Linda Darling-Hammond, 2010
Kathy Emery and Susan Ohanian
Why Is Corporate America Bashing Our Public Schools?, by Kathy Emery and Susan Ohanian, 2004
Todd Farley
Making the Grades: My Misadventures in the Standardized Testing Industry by Todd Farley, 2009
Jesse Hagopian
More Than a Score: The New Uprising Against High-Stakes Testing Edited by Jesse Hagopian, Foreword by Diane Ravitch, 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
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
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
Christopher Lubienski and Sarah Lubienski
The Public School Advantage: Why Public Schools Outperform Private Schools by Christopher A. Lubienski, Sarah Theule Lubienski, 2013
Doug Martin
Hoosier School Heist by Doug Martin, 2014
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
Pasi Sahlberg
Finnish Lessons: What can the world learn from educational change in Finland? by Pasi Sahlberg, 2010
Mercedes Schneider
A Chronicle of Echoes: Who’s Who in the Implosion of American Public Education by Mercedes K. Schneider, 2014
Jose Vilson
This Is Not A Test: A New Narrative on Race, Class, and Education by José Vilson, Foreword by Karen Lewis, 2014
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Before You Shop at Amazon:
Read Jeff Bezos: Another Billionaire for Privatization of Public Education
Alternative Book Sources:
Audrey Amrein-Beardsley
Rethinking Value-Added Models in Education: Critical Perspectives on Tests and Assessment-Based Accountability by Audrey Amrein-Beardsley, 2014
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 Educationby David C. Berliner, Gene V Glass, and Associates, 2014
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
Linda Darling-Hammond
The Flat World and Education: How America's Commitment to Equity Will Determine Our Future by Linda Darling-Hammond, 2010
Kathy Emery and Susan Ohanian
Why Is Corporate America Bashing Our Public Schools?, by Kathy Emery and Susan Ohanian, 2004
Todd Farley
Making the Grades: My Misadventures in the Standardized Testing Industry by Todd Farley, 2009
Jesse Hagopian
More Than a Score: The New Uprising Against High-Stakes Testing Edited by Jesse Hagopian, Foreword by Diane Ravitch, 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
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
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
Christopher Lubienski and Sarah Lubienski
The Public School Advantage: Why Public Schools Outperform Private Schools by Christopher A. Lubienski, Sarah Theule Lubienski, 2013
Doug Martin
Hoosier School Heist by Doug Martin, 2014
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
Pasi Sahlberg
Finnish Lessons: What can the world learn from educational change in Finland? by Pasi Sahlberg, 2010
Mercedes Schneider
A Chronicle of Echoes: Who’s Who in the Implosion of American Public Education by Mercedes K. Schneider, 2014
Jose Vilson
This Is Not A Test: A New Narrative on Race, Class, and Education by José Vilson, Foreword by Karen Lewis, 2014
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Before You Shop at Amazon:
Read Jeff Bezos: Another Billionaire for Privatization of Public Education
Alternative Book Sources:
