Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous

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, 5th 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, 4th 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.

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