Her are some more excellent books about issues in current education that I want to recommend:
Creative Schools: The Grassroots Revolution That’s Transforming Education. By Ken Robinson.
The second part of the title puzzles me, as I do not see education currently being transformed this way (I wish!). But the book itself is a wise one, and his work on schools is very popular. When such sensible good ideas are popularized I am particularly pleased. His TED talk on imagination and education is the most viewed TED talk of all time. See it as well.
Schools on Trial. How Freedom and Creativity Can Fix Our Educational Malpractice. By Nikhil Goyal.
Goyal is on the Fairtest board where I have gotten to know and respect his ideas and work. I have just begun reading it, and so far I would highly recommend it.
Cutting School: Privatization. Segregation, and the End of Public Education. By Nowile Roots.
I am halfway through and I have turned down dozens of pages to remember to reread.
Rethinking Readiness: Deeper Learning for College, Work and Life. Edited by Rafael Heller, Rebecca Wolfe and Adria Steinberg.
A collection of essays that help tie together “vocational” education and citizenship in an interesting way.
School’s Over: How to Have Freedom and Democracy in Education. By Jerry Mintz
As the leader of the Free School movement’s AERO, Jerry and I have argued for years about the role of children in governance. But we have also agreed about much else. This book explores democracy and education in another of context—each of which are tackled as they help us explore the meaning of democracy.
The Testing Charade: Pretending to Make Schools Better. By Daniel Koretz
Koretz is a well-known testing expert from Harvard and he thoroughly demolishes the pretenses of high stakes standardized testing. Read this then Beyond Testing (that I wrote with Matt Knoester). Oddly, to me, Koretz remains a supporter of standardized testing but argues we need better ones.
I’ll stop here – more later. I would love it if anyone has something to say about any of the above that might interest other readers.
And remember my two new books: These Schools Belong to You and Me with Emily Gasoi, and Beyond Testing with Matt Knoester!!!
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