Current Issues in Education
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Transforming Public Education
Cases in Education Entrepreneurship
Edited by Stacey M. Childress
Transforming Public Education features nineteen cases that profile entrepreneurs who are pursuing opportunities to create pattern-breaking social change in our public schools.
Teaching Talent
A Visionary Framework for Human Capital in Education
Edited by Rachel E. Curtis and Judy Wurtzel, foreword by Michael F. Bennet, Senator from Colorado
Teaching Talent presents a framework for human capital development that draws on a two-year initiative by the Aspen Institute Education and Society Program to research sectors that have effective, well-developed human capital systems and point the way toward human capital innovations in public education.
Against the Odds
Insights from One District's Small School Reform
Larry Cuban, Gary Lichtenstein, Arthur Evenchik, Martin Tombari, and Kristen Pozzoboni
Against the Odds offers an in-depth look at the Mapleton, Colorado, school district’s transformation of two traditional high schools into seven small schools, each enrolling fewer than four hundred students.
AP
A Critical Examination of the Advanced Placement Program
Edited by Philip M. Sadler, Gerhard Sonnert, Robert H. Tai, and Kristin Klopfenstein
AP draws together the most recent and rigorous research on the strengths and weaknesses of the Advanced Placement program.
Key Elements of Observing Practice
A Data Wise DVD and Facilitator’s Guide
Kathryn Parker Boudett, Elizabeth A. City, and Marcia K. Russell
Based on Data Wise and Data Wise in Action, Key Elements of Observing Practice offers insight into one of the most challenging steps in capturing data about school performance: observing and analyzing instructional practice.
Smart Money
Using Educational Resources to Accomplish Ambitious Learning Goals
Edited by Jacob E. Adams, Jr.
Smart Money brings together research on education finance policy and on the uses of school and district resources, thus providing a uniquely comprehensive analysis of school finance systems.
Community Organizing for Stronger Schools
Strategies and Successes
By Kavitha Mediratta, Seema Shah, and Sara McAlister
Drawing on a six-year national study, Community Organizing for Stronger Schools offers a richly textured analysis of community organizing for school reform. The authors examine the role of organizing in building social and political capital and improving educational outcomes for students in some of the nation’s most challenged school districts.
The Essential School Board Book
Better Governance in the Age of Accountability
Nancy Walser, foreword by Richard F. Elmore
The Essential School Board Book highlights effective practices that are common to high-functioning boards around the country—boards that are working successfully with their superintendents and communities to improve teaching and learning.
Notable Education Book of 2009, American School Board Journal
A Grand Bargain for Education Reform
New Rewards and Supports for New Accountability
Edited by Theodore Hershberg and Claire Robertson-Kraft, foreword by Christopher T. Cross
This book offers an ambitious new system for evaluating, compensating, and providing professional development for school teachers and administrators. In this realigned system, new forms of accountability are introduced, but they go hand in hand with new rewards and access to enhanced forms of professional development to help educators succeed in their instructional tasks.
The Role of Research in Educational Improvement
Edited by John D. Bransford, Deborah J. Stipek, Nancy J. Vye, Louis M. Gomez, and Diana Lam
In this book, leading scholars in the field examine the available research on the use of evidence in education and provide suggestions for strengthening the research-to-practice pipeline.

