Douglas McLennan: January 2008 Archives
The Life and Death of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice are Undermining Education, by Diane Ravitch
As Good as it Gets: What School Reform Brought to Austin, by Larry Cuban
Why Our Schools Need the Arts, by Jessica Hoffman Davis
The Flat World of Education: How America's Commitment to Equity Will Determine Our Future, by Linda Darling Hammond
Reimagining Schools: The Selected Works of Elliott W. Eisner
Democracy and Education, Complete and Unabridged, by John Dewey
How Musical is Man?, by John Blacking
The Thinking Ear, R. Murray Schaefer
A Place Called School, John Goodlad
The Singing Neanderthals--The Orgins of Music, Language, Mind, and Body, by Steven Mithen
Why School?, by Mike Rose
Beyond Enrichment: Building Effective Arts Partnership with Schools and Their Communities, by Jane Remer
Creating Islands of Excellence: Arts Education as a Partner in School Reform, by Carol Fineberg
Changing Schools Through The Arts: How to Build on the Power of An Idea, by Jane Remer
Why Students Don't Like School: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What it Means for the Classroom, by Daniel T. Willingham
Making Learning Whole: How Seven Principles of Teaching and Learning Can Transform Education, by David Perkins
The Knowledge Deficit: Closing the Shocking Education Gap for American Children, by E.D. Hirsch
Troublemaker: A History of School Reform Since Sputnik, by Chester E. Finn, Jr.
Left Back: A Century of Battles over School Reform, by Diane Ravitch
Measuring Up: What Educational Testing Really Tells Us, by Daniel Koretz
Grading Education: Getting Accountability Right, by Richard Rothstein
**What I write in this blog is solely my own perspective as an individual. I do not blog as a function of my position at The Center for Arts Education.**
