Books

Selected books recommended by CTEN:

Books On Education Reform

The B.A. Breakthrough: How Ending the Diploma Disparity Can Change the Face of America by Richard Whitmire

How Charter Schools Promote Diverse Learning Models and Meet the Diverse Needs of Parents and Children by Lance Izumi

The Politics of Institutional Reform: Katrina, Education, and the Second Face of Power by Terry Moe

Teaching Math in the 21st Century by Barry Garelick

Letters from John Dewey/Letters from Huck Finn: A Look at Math Education from the Inside Paperback by Barry Garelick

Push Has Come to Shove by Steve Perry

Obama’s Education Takeover by Lance T. Izumi

Why America Needs School Choice by Jay P. Greene

Inside American Education by Thomas Sowell

No Excuses: Closing the Racial Gap in Learning by Abigail Thernstrom and Stephan Thernstrom

Not as Good as You Think: Why the Middle Class Needs School Choice by Lance T. Izumi, Vicki E. Murray and Rachel Chaney with Ruben Patterson and Rosemarie Fusano

Crazy Like a Fox by Dr. Ben Chavis with Carey Blakely

What's Gone Wrong In America's Classrooms - edited by Williamson Evers

A Choice for Our Children by Alan Bonsteel and Carlos A. Bonilla

Learning As We Go; Why School Choice is Worth the Wait by Paul T. Hill

Books On Teacher's Unions
Standing Up to Goliath: Battling State and National Teachers' Unions for the Heart and Soul of Our Kids and Country by Rebecca Friedrichs

Special Interest: Teachers Unions and America's Public Schools by Terry M. Moe

Understanding Teacher Contracts by Andrew Rotherham

Free Choice For Workers -- A History of the Right To Work Movement by George C. Leef

Power Grab - How the National Education Association is Betraying Our Children by G. Gregory Moo

The Teacher's Unions -- How They Sabotage Educational Reform and Why by Myron Lieberman

The Worm in the Apple -- How the Teacher Unions Are Destroying American Education by Peter Brimelow

The War Against Hope - How Teachers' Unions Hurt Children, Hinder Teachers, and Endanger Public Education by former U.S. Secretary of Education, Dr. Rod Paige

Understanding The Teacher Union Contract: A Citizen's Handbook by Myron Lieberman

Books On Technology In Education
Short Circuited: The Challenges Facing the Online Learning Revolution in California by Lance T. Izumi, Vicki E. Murray, Evelyn B. Stacey, Rachel S. Chaney, and Ian D. Randolph

Liberating Learning: Technology, Politics, and the Future of American Education by Terry M. Moe and John E. Chubb

Textbooks
The Trouble With Textbooks: Distorting History and Religion by Gary Tobin and Dennis Ybarra

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