Miscellaneous Recommended Reading

• Adler. The Paideia Proposal: An Educational Manifesto, Macmillan Publishing, 1982.
• Allen. Making It All Work: Winning at the Game of Work and the Business of Life, Penguin, 2008.
• Asia Society. Going Global: Preparing Our Students for an Interconnected World, 2008.
• Babiera. Becoming the Change: What One Organization Working to Transform Educational Systems Learned About Team Learning and Change, The Ball Foundation, 2010.
• Bailyn. Education in the Forming of American Society, University of N. Carolina Press, 1960.
• Barth. Learning By Heart, Jossey-Bass, 2001.
• Blodgett. Land of Golden Dreams: California in the Gold Rush Decade, 1848-1858, Huntington Library Press, 1999.
• Bloom. The Closing of the American Mind, Simon and Schuster, 1987.
• Brill. Class Warfare: Inside the Fight to Fix America’s Schools, Simon and Schuster, 2011.
• Boyd, ed. The Transformation of Great American School Districts: How Big Cities are Reshaping Public Education, Harvard Education Press, 2008.
• Bridge. Hope’s Boy, Hyperion, 2008.
• Carroll, et. al.  California’s K-12 Public Schools: How Are They Doing?, Rand, 2005. (2 copies)
• Carroll. The Huntington Botanical Gardens Reading Plants: A Collection of Study Units for Grades 3-6, Huntington Library, 2003.
• David and Cuban.  Cutting Through the Hype: A Taxpayers Guide to School Reforms. Education Week Press. 2006.
• del Olmo.  Frank del Olmo: Commentaries on His Times, 2004.
• Drury. The American Public School Teacher: Past, Present, and Future, Harvard Education Press, 2011.
• Eisner. The Arts and the Creation of the Mind, Yale University Press, 2002.
• Elder.  Stories in the Land:  A Place-Based Environmental Education Anthology, Nature Literacy Series, 1998.
• Freedman.  Letters to a Young Journalist (the Art of Mentoring), Basic Books, 2006.
• Gawande. Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance, Picador, 2007.
• Gawande. The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right, Picador, 2009.
• Gill, et. al.  Rhetoric Versus Reality: What We Know and What We Need to Know About Vouchers and Charter Schools, Rand, 2001.
• Gladwell.  The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference. Little, Brown and Company, 2000.
• Glasser & Easley. Transforming the Difficult Child: The Nurtured Approach, 1998.
• Goldstein. A Convenient Hatred: The History of Antisemitism, Facing History and Ourselves, 2012.
• Hakim. The History of US Teaching Guide, 5^th Grade, California Edition, Oxford University Press, 2005.
• Hakim. The History of US (an 11 volume history of the United States for upper grade students and older), Oxford University Press, 1993-2005.
• Hath. How Full is Your Bucket, Gallup Press, 2004.
• Hath. Strength Finder 2.0, Gallup Press, 2007.
• Holzman. The Black Poverty Cycle and How to End It, Michael Holzman, 2013.
• Hopkins. Collaborative Philanthropies: What Groups of Foundations Can Do That Individual Funders Cannot, Lexington Books, 2005.  (2 copies)
• Kerchner. Learning from L.A.: Institutional Change in American Public Education, Harvard Education Press, 2008.
• Klitgaard, et. al. High Performance Government: Structure, Leadership, Incentives, Rand, 2005.
• Leslie, et. al.  Into the Field:  A Guide to Locally Focused Teaching, Nature Literacy Series, 1999.
• Matthews.  Is There Public for Public Schools? Kettering Foundation Press, 1996.
• Matthews.  California Crack Up: How Reform Broke the Golden State and How We Can Fix It, University of California Press, 2007.
• Mitchell. Prescription for Excellence: Leadership Lessons for Creating A World-Class Customer Experience from UCLA Health System, Regents of UC, 2011.
• O’Brien. The Amazing Memory Book: Techniques and tricks from the inspiring master (kit), Thunder Bay Press, 2005.
• Price. Achievement Matters: Getting Your Child the Best Education Possible, Kensington, 2012.
• Princeton.  Princeton University Library Chronicle, 1998.
• Princeton.  Princeton University Library Chronicle, 2011.
• Ravitch.  Ed Speak: A Glossary of Education Terms, Phrases, Buzzwords, and Jargon. ASCD, 2007.
• Ravitch.  Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America’s Public Schools, Alfred A. Knopf, 2013.
• Read. Education Through Art, Pantheon Books, 1974
• Richardson, ed., Handbook of Research on Teaching, 4^th edition, American Educational Research Association, 2001.
• Ride. The Third Planet: Exploring the Earth From Space, 1994, 2004.
• Ripley. The Smartest Kids in the World and How They Got that Way, Simon & Schuster, 2013.
• Rotherham. Achieveing Teacher & Principal Excellence: A Guidebook for Donors, Philanthropy Roundtable, 2008.
• Sacks.  Tearing Down the Gates: Confronting the Class Divide in American Education, University of California Press, 2007.
• Sizer. Horace’s Hope: What Works for the American High School, Houghton-Mifflin, 1996.
• Smith.  Education and Public Health:  Natural Partners in Learning for Life, ASCD, 2003.
• Sobel.  Beyond Ecophobia:  Reclaiming the Heart in Nature Education, Nature Literacy Series, 1996.
• Sobel.  Place-Based Education:  Connecting Classrooms & Communities, Nature Literacy Series, 2004.  (2 copies)
• Salzman, ed.  What We See:  Poems and Essays from Inside Juvenile Hall, Alethos Foundation.
• Smarick. Closing America’s High-achievement Gap, The Philanthropy Roundtable, 2013.
• Stevenson & Stigler. The Learning Gap: Why Our Schools Are Failing and What We Can Learn from Japanese and Chinese Education, Touchstone, 1992. (2 copies)
• Students of Garfield High School. Sheep Can’t Fly, 826LA, 2009.
• Tierney. Give Smart: Philanthropy That Gets Results, Public Affairs, 2011.
• UCLA’s Critical Friends Workshop. (copy of training notebook)
• Whitmore. The Bee Eater: Michelle Rhee Takes on the Nation’s Worst School District, Jossey-Bass, 2011.
• Zhao.  Catching Up or Leading the Way. ASCD, 2009
• Zimmer, et. al.  Charter School Operations and Performance: Evidence from California, Rand, 2003.