Deborah Meier on Education

Emily Gasoi and I have just published These Schools Belong to You and Me: Beacon Press, and so we have been busy promoting it on the east coast.  This reminds me how much writers are anxious, not just for monetary reasons, to have readers, reactions, feedback, reviews, even denunciations. So it is time to do the same for the books some of my colleagues have written lately.

I will mention again that Matthew Knoester and I had a book published by TC Press over the summer:  Beyond Testing: 7 Assessments of Students and Schools More Effective Than Standardized Tests.  And, by the way, more compatible with the purposes of schools.

When Grit Isn’t Enough: Beacon Press. Linda Nathan was the founder and director of The Boston Art Academy, a wonderful innovative Boston high school. She has written an amazing book which, at its heart, tells the stories of young people and how schools mattered to them. She explores, through these stories, the dangerous benign sounding myths that underline the current deform movement.  READ

Addicted to Reform. A 12-Step Program to Rescue Pubic Education. The New Press. John Merrow of PBS’s The Merrow Report has been a steadfast media ally of most everything I care about. He has written a book with some important “don’ts” and some powerful “dos”.

Brooklyn Dreams: My Life in Public Education. Harvard Education Press. Sonia Nieto is a hero of mine and so this book of memoirs has made for a very good read.  If you do or do not know her work I think this is an important read.

In my next blog I have several other new and great books to tell you about!

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