The ascendance of the human species is due more than anything else to the ability of our minds to understand and control the conditions of life. Today, as we cross the threshold of inventing life itself, the world we're creating is presenting us with challenges that could be our downfall if not met with ingenuity and creativity.
Education is our best hope for addressing these challenges, for there is not a single problem facing the human race whose solution is not rooted in education. In recognition of this, the Marshall McLuhan Center seeks to promote excellence in our educational systems.
We welcome your suggestions for our list of outstanding books on education policy and practice.
David Berliner and Sharon Nichols
Collateral Damage: How High-Stakes Testing Corrupts America's Schools
Linda Darling-Hammond
The Flat World and Education: How America's Commitment to Equity Will Determine our Future
Linda Darling-Hammond et al (Eds)
Preparing Teachers for a Changing World: What Teachers Should Learn and Be Able to Do
Teaching as the Learning Profession: A Handbook of Policy and Practice
John Dewey
Democracy and Education
Richard Kahlenberg
All Together Now: Creating Middle Class Schools Through Public School Choice
Alfie Kohn
The Case Against Standardized Testing: Raising the Scores, Ruining the School
George Madaus et al
The Paradoxes of High Stakes Testing: How They Affect Students, Their Parents, Teachers, Principals, Schools, and Society
Deborah Meier
In Schools We Trust: Creating Communities of Learning in an Era of Testing and Standardization
Bob Moses
Quality Education as a Constitutional Right
Pedro Noguera, et al (Eds)
Understanding and Responding to the Disenfranchisement of Latino Males: Invisible No More
Pedro Noguera and A. Wade Boykin
Closing the Achievement Gap: From Research to Practice. Washington, D.C.: ASCD
City Kids, City Schools
Pedro Noguera
The Trouble With BlackBoys and Other Reflections on Race, Equity and the Future of Public Education
Jeannie Oakes
Keeping Track: How Schools Structure Inequality
Orfield and Ashkinaze, 1991
The closing door: Conservative policy and Black opportunity
Diane Ravitch
The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education
Arthur Reynolds and Judy Temple
Economic returns on investments in preschool education: A vision for universal preschool education
Peter Senge
The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization
Peter Senge et al
Schools That Learn
Johanna Wald and Daniel Losen (eds.)
Deconstructing the School to Prison Pipeline
Anne Wheelock
Crossing the Tracks: How Untracking Can Save America's Schools
We welcome your suggestions of organizations making a contribution to excellence in education policy and practice.
American Evaluation Association
www.eval.org
Center for Education Policy and Leadership
http://riley.furman.edu/education
The Civil Rights Project
http://civilrightsproject.ucla.edu
Fairtest
www.fairtest.org
Forum on Educational Accountability
http://www.edaccountability.org/
Forum for Education and Democracy
http://forumforeducation.org/
The Heckman Equation
http://www.heckmanequation.org/
Justice Matters
www.justicematters.org
Knowledge Works
http://knowledgeworks.org/
Schott Foundation for Public Education
http://www.schottfoundation.org/
Society for Organizational Learning
http://www.solonline.org/
UCLA Civil Rights Project
http://www.civilrightsproject.ucla.edu/
Our lists of articles are being revised. We welcome your suggestions
Equity
Akiba and Scribner, 2007
Teacher quality, opportunity gap and national achievement in 46 countries
Educational Research 36
Carter and Goodwin, 1994
Racial Identity and Education
Review of Research in Education (20); American Educational Research Association
Linda Darling-Hammond, 1996
What matters most: teaching for Americas future
National Commission on Teaching and Americas Future
Bell, Bernstein, and Greenberg, 2008
Lessons for the United States from other advanced economies
Big Ideas for Children: Investing in our Future. First Focus
J. Heckman, 2008
The case for investing in disadvantaged young children
Gloria Ladson-Billings, 2006
From the Achievement Gap to the Education Debt
Educational Researcher 35(10)
Lankford, Loeb and Wyckoff, 2002
Teacher sorting and the plight of urban schools
Education Evaluation and Policy Analysis 24(1)
G. Liu, 2008
Improving Title 1 Funding Equity Across States, Districts, and Schools
Iowa Law Review 93(3)
High Stakes Standardized Testing
High Stakes Testing in K-12 Schools Annotated Bibliography
http://www.eval.org/hstlinks.htm
Bransford, Brown, and Cocking, 1999
How People Learn: Brain Mind, Experience, and School
National Research Council
Center on Education Policy, 2000
State Exit Exams: a maturing reform
Heubert and Hauser, 1999
High stakes: testing for tracking, promotion and graduation
National Research Council; National Academy Press
Klein, et al, 2000
What do Test Scores in Texas Tell Us?
The Rand Corporation
Linn, 2000
Assessments and Accountability
Educational Researcher 29(2)
O'Day, 2002
Complexity, Accountability, and school improvement
Harvard Educational Review 72(3)
Pedulla, et al, 2003
Perceived effects of state- mandated testing on teaching and learning: findings from a national survey of teachers
National Board on Testing and Public Policy
Roderick et al, 1999
Ending Social Promotion: results from the first two years
Consortium on Chicago School Research
Russell and Abrans, 2004
Instructional uses of computers for writing: the impact of state testing programs
Teachers College Record 106(6)
Rustique-Forrester, 2005
Accountability and the pressures to exclude: a cautionary tale from England
Education Policy Analysis Archives
http://epaa.edu/epaa/v13n26/
