Education

The Public School and the Private Vision
A Search for America in Education and Literature

Maxine Greene

How Kindergarten Came to America
Friedrich Froebel’s Radical Vision of Early Childhood Education

Bertha von Marenholtz-Bülow

Beyond the Bake Sale
The Essential Guide to Family-School Partnerships

Anne T. Henderson, Karen L. Mapp, Vivian R. Johnson, Don Davies

Should We Burn Babar?
Essays on Children’s Literature and the Power of Stories

Herbert Kohl

She Would Not Be Moved
How We Tell the Story of Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott

Herbert Kohl

The New Press Education Reader
Leading Educators Speak Out

Ellen Gordon Reeves

Teachers Have It Easy
The Big Sacrifices and Small Salaries of America’s Teachers

Daniel Moulthrop, Nínive Calegari, Dave Eggers

Other People’s Children
Cultural Conflict in the Classroom

Lisa Delpit

Final Test
The Battle for Adequacy in America’s Schools

Peter Schrag

Fires in the Bathroom
Advice for Teachers from High School Students

Kathleen Cushman

Stupidity and Tears
Teaching and Learning in Troubled Times

Herbert Kohl

Working
People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do

Studs Terkel

Consuming Kids
The Hostile Takeover of Childhood

Susan Linn

Islam Explained

Tahar Ben Jelloun

A People’s History of the United States
Abridged Teaching Edition

Howard Zinn

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