Below is a list (in alphabetical order by last name) of more than a dozen recent books published by friends and allies of the Network for Public Education, complete with links for purchase. We hope you will support these authors, and share what you learn with other public education allies.
Rethinking Value-Added Models in Education: Critical Perspectives on Tests and Assessment-Based Accountability, Audrey Amrein-Beardsley
On the Same Track: How Schools Can Join the Twenty-First-Century Struggle against Resegregation, Carol Burris
Our School: Searching for Community in the Era of Choice, Sam Chaltain
The Educator and the Oligarch, a Teacher Challenges the Gates Foundation, Anthony Cody
50 Myths and Lies That Threaten America’s Public Schools: The Real Crisis in Education, David C. Berliner, Gene V. Glass and Associates;
Doing the Right Thing: A Teacher Speaks, David Greene
More Than a Score The New Uprising Against High-Stakes Testing, Jesse Hagopian
Losing Our Way: An Intimate Portrait of a Troubled America, Bob Herbert
Fear and Learning in America – Bad Data, Good Teachers, and the Attack on Public Education, John Kuhn
Hoosier School Heist: How Corporations and Theocrats Stole Democracy From Public Education, Doug Martin
Badass Teachers Unite! Reflections on Education, History, and Youth Activism, Mark Naison
A Chronicle of Echoes: Who’s Who in the Implosion of American Public Education, Mercedes K. Schneider
Social Context Reform: A Pedagogy of Equity and Opportunity, Paul Thomas
This Is Not A Test: A New Narrative on Race, Class, and Education, Jose Luis Vilson
Closing the Opportunity Gap: What America Must Do to Give Every Child an Even Chance, Prudence L. Carter, Kevin G. Welner
Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Dragon: Why China Has the Best (and Worst) Education System in the World, Yong Zhao
