- As Good As It Gets
- Larry Cuban
- Larry Cuban takes a richly detailed history of the Austin, Texas, school district, under Superintendent Pat Forgione, to ask the question that few politicians and school reformers want to touch. Given effective use of widely welcomed reforms, can school policies and practices put all children at the same academic level? Are class and ethnic differences in academic performance within the power of schools to change? Austin’s signal successes amid failure hold answers to tough questions facing urban district leaders across the nation.
- Hardcover 2010
- Measuring Up
- Daniel Koretz
- Measuring Up demystifies educational testing—from MCAS to SAT to WAIS. Bringing statistical terms down to earth, Koretz takes readers through the most fundamental issues that arise in educational testing and shows how they apply to some of the most controversial issues in education today, from high-stakes testing to special education.
- Hardcover 2008 / Paperback 2009
- The Ordeal of Equality
- David K. Cohen
- Susan L. Moffitt
- American schools have always been locally created and controlled. But ever since the Title I program in 1965 appropriated nearly one billion dollars for public schools, federal money and programs have been influencing every school in America. With incisive clarity and wit, David Cohen and Susan Moffitt argue that enormous gaps existed between policies and programs, and the real-world practices that they attempted to change.
- Hardcover 2009