On The Bookshelf

The Flat World and Education

The Executive Leadership Council has been exploring what schools of the future students might look like.  Linda Darling-Hammond’s new book, The Flat World and Education: How America’s Commitment to Equity will Determine our Future, has been an integral part of their study and should be on every educational leader’s summer reading list. The text offers a wake-up call concerning America’s future and vividly illustrates what the United States needs to do in order to build a system of high-achieving and equitable schools that ensures every child the right to learn.

Why Don't Students Like School? by Daniel T. Willingham (Jossey-Bass, March, 2009 )
Instructional Rounds in Education by Elizabeth A. City, Richard F. Elmore, Sarah E. Fiarman, and Lee Teitel (Harvard Education Publishing Group, April, 2009 )
Leading Change in Your School by Douglas B. Reeves (ASCD Premium, March, 2009 )
Wikified Schools by Stephanie Sandifer (Lulu.com, July, 2009 )
Readicide by Kelly Gallagher (Stenhouse Publishers, February, 2009 )
Five Minds For The Future by Howard Gardner (Harvard Business Press, April, 2007 )
Making Learning Whole by David N. Perkins (Jossey-Bass, December, 2008 )
Those Who Dared by Carl Glickman (Teachers College Press, November, 2008 )
Coaching: Approaches and Prespectives by Jim Knight (Corwin Press, October, 2008 )
Weapons of Mass Instruction by John Taylor Gatto (New Society Publishers, October, 2008 )
The Future of Education by Kieran Egan (Yale University Press, September, 2008 )
Disrupting Class by Clayton M. Christensen, Curtis W. Johnson, Michael B. Horn (McGraw Hill, May, 2008 )
The Global Achievement Gap by Tony Wagner (Basic Books, August, 2008 )
The Literacy Coaching Challenge by Michael C. McKenna and Sharon Walpole (Guilford Press, May, 2008 )
Relentless Pursuit by Donna Foote (Random House, April, 2008 )
From Good Schools to Great Schools by Susan Penny Gray, William A. Streshly (Corwin Press, February, 2008 )
Troublemaker by Chester E. Finn, Jr (Princeton University Press, February, 2008 )
More Than A Dream by G.R. Kearney (Loyola Press, January, 2008 )
Joyful Learning by Paula Kluth, Alice Udvari-Solner (Corwin Press, December, 2007 )
Why Science by James Trefil (Teachers College Press, November, 2007 )
Freedom Writers Diary Teacher’s Guide by Erin Gruwell (Random House, Inc., October, 2007 )
50 Rules Kids Won't Learn in School: Real-World Antidotes to Feel-Good Education by Charles J. Sykes (St. Martin's Press, August, 2007 )
Boys Adrift by Dr. Leonard M.D. Sax (Basic Books, August, 2007 )
Tested by Linda Perlstein (Henry Holt and Co., July, 2007 )
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