How to Change 5000 Schools
A Practical and Positive Approach for Leading Change at Every Level

Ben Levin

In How to Change 5000 Schools, Ben Levin, former deputy minister of education for the province of Ontario, draws on his experience overseeing major systemwide education reforms in Canada and England to set forth a refreshingly positive, pragmatic, and optimistic approach to leading educational change at all levels. Available December 2008.

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Beyond Tracking
Multiple Pathways to College, Career, and Civic Participation

Edited by Jeannie Oakes and Marisa Saunders

Beyond Tracking responds to the a sobering assessment of American high schools by delineating and promoting an innovative and well-defined notion of multiple pathways. The book’s authors clearly distinguish their use of the term “multiple pathways” from any updated version of the tracking system that marked so many American high schools during the past century. Instead, Oakes and Saunders propose a system of multiple pathways that will “provide both the academic and real-world foundations that students need for advanced learning, training, and preparation for responsible civic participation.”

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Alternative Routes to Teaching
Mapping the New Landscape of Teacher Education

Edited by Pam Grossman and Susanna Loeb

Alternative Routes to Teaching provides a thorough and dispassionate review of the research evidence on alternative certification. It takes readers beyond the simple dichotomies that have characterized the debate over alternative certification, encourages them to look carefully at the trade-offs implicit in any route into teaching, and suggests ways to “marry” the proven strengths of both traditional and alternative approaches.

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Learning from L.A.
Institutional Change in American Public Education

By Charles Taylor Kerchner, David J. Menefee-Libey, Laura Steen Mulfinger, and Stephanie E. Clayton

Drawing on a four-year study of the last 40 years of education reform in Los Angeles, Learning
from L.A. captures the sweeping change in American education. It puts forth a provocative argument: while school reformers and education historians have tended to focus on the success or failure of individual initiatives, they have overlooked the fact that, over the past several decades, the institution of public education itself has been transformed.

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The Future of Educational Entrepreneurship
Possibilities for School Reform

Edited by Frederick M. Hess

The Future of Educational Entrepreneurship examines the challenge of creating innovative and productive entrepreneurial activity in American education.

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Real Leaders, Real Schools
Stories of Success Against Enormous Odds

By Gerald C. Leader, with Amy F. Stern

Real Leaders, Real Schools tells the stories of five urban public school principals who led their schools
through profound and transformative changes. In each of these cases, their efforts resulted in dramatic
improvements in student achievement—improvements that occurred within the current environment
of high-stakes tests.

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Adolescents at School
Perspectives on Youth, Identity, and Education (Second Edition)

Edited by Michael Sadowski

A uniquely practical, insightful, and jargon-free volume, this new revised and expanded edition of the bestselling Adolescents at School points to ways to foster the success of every student in our schools and classrooms.

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The Transformation of Great American School Districts
How Big Cities Are Reshaping Public Education

Edited by William Lowe Boyd, Charles Taylor Kerchner, and Mark Blyth

In The Transformation of Great American School Districts, William Lowe Boyd, Charles Taylor Kerchner, and Mark Blyth argue that urban education reform can best be understood as a long process of institutional change, rather than as a series of failed projects. They examine the core assumptions that underlay the Progressive Era model of public education—apolitical governance, local control, professional hierarchy, and the logic of confidence—and show that recent developments in school governance have challenged virtually all of these assumptions.

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Universal Design in Higher Education
From Principles to Practice

Edited by Sheryl E. Burgstahler and Rebecca C. Cory

Universal Design in Higher Education looks at the design of physical and technological environments at institutions of higher education; at issues pertaining to curriculum and instruction; and at the full array of student services.

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So Much Reform, So Little Change
The Persistence of Failure in Urban Schools

By Charles M. Payne

This frank and courageous book explores the persistence of failure in today’s urban schools. At its heart is the argument that most education policy discussions are disconnected from the daily realities of urban schools, especially those in poor and beleaguered neighborhoods.

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