Many Children Left Behind: How the No Child Left Behind Act Is Damaging Our Children and Our Schools

An Ethic of Excellence: Building a Culture of Craftsmanship with Students

Drawing from his own remarkable experience as a veteran classroom teacher (still in the classroom), Ron Berger gives us a vision of educational reform that transcends standards, curriculum, and instructional strategies. He argues for a paradigm shift - a

The Power of Their Ideas: Lessons from America from a Small School in Harlem

Deborah Meier's acclaimed first book, with a new preface"The founder and principal of excellent small schools in East Harlem . . . Meier wants to make all students capable of participating in and sustaining a democracy. . . . Doubters must read Deborah Me

In Schools We Trust: Creating Communities of Learning in an Era of Testing and Standardization

We are in an era of radical distrust of public education. Increasingly, we turn to standardized tests and standardized curricula-now adopted by all fifty states-as our national surrogates for trust.Legendary school founder and reformer Deborah Meier belie