Books By Deborah Meier
(2017) (with Emily Gasoi) These Schools Belong to You and Me. Why We Can’t Afford to Abandon Our Public Schools. Beacon Press.
(2017) (with Matthew Knoester). Beyond testing: Seven assessments of students and schools more effective than standardized tests. New York, NY: Teachers College Press.
(2015) (with Matthew Knoester, & Katherine Clunis D’Andrea, editors) Teaching in Themes: An Approach to Schoolwide Learning, Creating Community, and Differentiating Instruction. New York: Teachers College Press.
(2010) (with Brenda Engel & Beth Taylor). Playing for keeps: Life and learning on a public school playground. New York: Teachers College Press.
2004) (Edited, with George Woods). Many children left behind: How the No Child Left Behind Act is damaging our children and our schools. Boston: Beacon Press.
(2004) (with Ted & Nancy Sizer). Keeping school: Letters to families from principals of two small schools. Boston: Beacon Press.
(2002). In schools we trust: Creating communities of learning in an era of testing and standardization. Boston: Beacon Press.
(2000). Will standards save public education? Boston: Beacon Press.
(1995). The power of their ideas: Lessons for America from a small school in Harlem. Boston: Beacon Press
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