What Are They Reading?

What Are They Reading?

Adler, Mortimer J., The Paideia Proposal: An Educational Manifesto, MacMillan, 1982.
Beals, Melba, Warriors Don't Cry, Washington Square Press, 1988.
Bell, Terrel H. and Donna L. Elmquist, How to Shape Up Our Nation's Schools: Three Crucial Steps for Renewing American Education, Terrel Bell & Associates, 1991.
Black, Theodore M., Straight Talk About American Education, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982.
Bracey, Gerald W., Setting the Record Straight: Responses to Misconceptions About Public Education in the United States, Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 1997.
Careful Comparisons: Public and Private Schools in America, National School Boards Association and School Board Advocacy for Public Education, 1997.
Carver, John, Boards That Make a Difference: A New Design for Leadership in Nonprofit and Public Organizations, Jossey-Bass, 1997.
Coles, Robert, The Spiritual Lives of Children, Houghton-Mifflin, 1990.
Comer, James P., Waiting for a Miracle, Dutton, 1997.
Copperman, Paul, The Literacy Hoax: The Decline of Reading, Writing, and Learning in Public Schools and What We Can Do About It, Morrow-Quill Paperback, 1980.
Danzberger, Jacqueline P., and Michael W. Kirst and Michael D. Usdan, Governing Public Schools: New Times, New Requirements, Institute for Educational Leadership, Inc, 1992.
Darling-Hammond, Linda, The Right to Know: A Blueprint for Creating Schools That Work, Jossey-Bass, 1997.
Edelman, Marian Wright, The Measure of Our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours, Harper Collins, 1993.
Elam, Stanley, ed., The State of the Nation's Public Schools: A Conference Report, Phi Delta Kappa, 1993.
Facing the Challenge: The Report of the Twentieth Century Fund Task Force on School Governance, Twentieth Century Fund Press, 1992.
Financing Student Success: Beyond Equity and Adequacy, Report of the NASB Study Group on Funding Education in the 21st Century, National Association of State Boards of Education, 1997.
The Full Measure: Report of the National Association of State Boards of Education Study Group on Statewide Assessment Systems: National Association of State Boards of Education, 1997.
Garbarino, James, Raising Children in a Socially Toxic Environment, Jossey-Bass, 1995.
Goodlad, John I., A Place Called School: Prospects for the Future, McGraw-Hill, 1984.
Hebdon, Robert, The Perils of Privatization: Lessons for New York State, Cornell University, December 1994.
Hirsch, E.D. Jr., Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know, Houghton-Mifflin, 1987.
Hirsch, E.D. Jr., The Schools We Need and Why We Don't Have Them, Doubleday, 1996.
Hrabowski, Freeman, Beating the Odds, Oxford University Press, 1998.
Holding Effective Board Meetings, American Association of School Administrators and National School Board Association, 1984.
K-8 Science and Mathematics Education, The ERIC Review, Vol 6, Issue 2, Fall 1999, US Dept of Education.
Kohn, Alfie, The Schools Our Children Deserve, Houghton-Mifflin, 1999.
Kozol, Jonathan, Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation, Harper Perennial Library, 1996.
Kozol, Jonathan, Death at an Early Age: The Destruction of The Hearts and Minds of Negro Children in The Boston Public Schools, New American Library Trade, 1990.
Kozol, Jonathan, The Night Is Dark and I Am Far from Home, Simon & Schuster, 1991, 1995. Out of print. Amazon.com will query.
Kozol, Jonathan, Savage Inequalities, Crown, 1991.
Lessons of a Century: Opening the Doors, Education Week, Jan 27, 1999.
Marshall, Ray and Marc Tucker, Thinking for a Living: Education and the Wealth of Nations, Basic Books, 1992.
New York's Commitment: Teaching to Higher Standards, New York State Board of Regents and New York State Education Department, July 1998.
Nyquist, Ewald B., School Board Leadership and the Quality of Discontent, NYSSBA Journal, December 1969.
Oakes, Jeannie, Keeping Track: How Schools Structure Inequality, Yale Univ. Press, 1985.
Orfield, Gary and Carol Ashkinaze, The Closing Door, Univ. of Chicago Press, 1991.
Orfield, Gary, Dismantling Desegregation: The Quiet Reversal of Brown v. Board of Education, New Press, 1997.
Peoples, David, Presentations Plus: Proven Techniques, John Wiley & Sons, 1992.
Possibilities Catalog: The Quest for Excellence and Equity in Education, New York State Education Department and NYNEX Corp, 1994.
Prisoners of Time, National Education Commission on Time and Learning, April 1994.
Putting Children First: The Report of the New York State Special Commission on Educational Structure, Policies and Practices, December 1993.
Raber, Suzanne and Virginia Roach, Katherine Fraser, ed., Designing and Implementing Standards-Based Accountability Systems, Education Commission of the States, 1998.
Resnick, Michael A., Why Vouchers Won't Work: A Tool Kit for School Board Members, National School Boards Association, 1988.
Saks, Judith B., The Basics of Charter Schools: A School Board Primer, National School Boards Association/Council of Urban Boards of Education, 1997.
Schlechty, Phillip C., Schools for the Twenty-First Century: Leadership Imperatives for Educational Reform, Jossey-Bass, 1991.
The School Board Member Handbook, NYSSBA, 1995.
School Boards: Strengthening Grass Roots Leadership, Institute for Educational Leadership, November 1986.
School Employment Issues: Collective Bargaining, NYSSBA, 1999.
School Law, 28th Edition, NYSSBA and New York State Bar Association, 2000.
School Technology and Readiness Report: From Pillars to Progress, CEO Forum on Education and Technology, 1997.
Shannon, Thomas A., The National School Boards Association: Reflections on the Development of an American Idea, National School Boards Association, 1997.
Sheffield and Frankel, eds., When I Was Young, I Loved School, Children's Express Foundation, Inc., 1988.
Sizer, Theodore, Horace's Compromise, Houghton-Mifflin, 1984.
Sizer, Theodore, Horace's Hope, Houghton-Mifflin, 1996.
Sizer, Theodore, Horace's School: Redesigning the American High School, Houghton-Mifflin, 1992.
Special Report: The $11 Billion Mystery, Public Policy Institute, February 1992.
Tucker, Marc S. and Judy B. Codding, Standards for Our Schools: How to Set Them, Measure Them, and Reach Them, Jossey-Bass, 1998.
What Makes a Great School: Visions of the Past, Present, and Future, Edison Project, 1993
Vision 21: Recommendations for Change in K-12 Public Education in New York State, New York State Legislative Commission on Rural Resources, Senator Charles D. Cook, Chairman, 1998.
Wurzel, James ed., Toward Multiculturalism, Intercultural Press, 1988.

Compiled as a developmental tool for members by the NYSSBA Board Development Department. What books, periodicals, articles, videotapes, CD-ROMs, etc. have been most helpful to you? Please send your recommendations for future editions.

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