Book details: Debs, M. (2019). Diverse Families, Desirable Schools: Public Montessori in the Era of School Choice. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press. Hardcover, 240 pages, $30.49 Mira Debs’ recent book, Diverse Families, Desirable Schools (2019), is a welcome addition to the small but growing field of Montessori research (Marshall, 2017). Debs, who currently serves as
Shani Robinson, an Atlanta native, was a first-grade teacher in 2009 at Dunbar Elementary School in Atlanta Georgia, but by 2013, was a convicted felon facing twenty-five years in prison for racketeering charges from an alleged district-wide cheating scandal. None of the Above: The Untold Story of the Atlanta Public Schools Cheating Scandal, Corporate Greed,
In Demoralized: Why Teachers Leave the Profession They Love and How They Can Stay, Doris Santoro tells rich stories of experienced teachers living in the era of accountability, evaluation, and increasing policies, who when seeking advice are often referred to as “burnt out.” Santoro differentiates between burn out and demoralization. Demoralization is not about teachers’
Whiteness, Pedagogy, and Youth in America by Samuel Jaye Tanner (2018) provides an in-depth account of a school-based participatory action research project with high school students surrounding the complexities of whiteness and white students’ identities. This book is a helpful resource for AJE Forum readers interested in youth participatory action research (YPAR), art education, critical scholarship,
Mentoring Student Teachers and Interns: Strategies for Engaging, Relating, Supporting, and Challenging Future Educators by Lyman, Foyle, Morehead, Schwerdtfeger, & Lyman (2017) provides a broad orientation to mentoring pre-service teachers. The book is appropriate for AJE Forum readers interested in practices and policies related to pre-service teacher education or teacher pipeline issues. In ten chapters the
Book details: Rothstein, R. (2017). The color of law: A forgotten history of how our government segregated America. New York: Liveright. Hardcover, 345 pages, $27.95. The version of Reconstruction Era history I recall learning in school in the northern United States went something like this: the states of the former Confederacy, sore over their
Book details: Teaching with Vitality: Pathways to Health & Wellness for Teachers & Schools by Peggy D. Bennett. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2017, 232 pp., $19.95. Teaching with Vitality: Pathways to Health & Wellness for Teachers & Schools (2017) by Peggy D. Bennett, a Professor Emerita of Music Education at Oberlin College Conservatory of Music, presents
Book details: Assigning Blame by Mark Hlavacik. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Education Press, 2016, 208 pp., $30.00. Policy experts David Tyack and Larry Cuban explained in their seminal work Tinkering toward Utopia (1995) that discussing and debating the institution of formal schooling is “one way Americans make sense of their lives” (p. 42). With this understanding, it is
Review by Kathryn M. Bateman, Ph.D. Candidate in Curriculum and Instruction, Science Education, The Pennsylvania State University Book Details: The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way by Amanda Ripley. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2013. 307 pp., $15.99. Many Americans frequently lament the products of our education system, accusing schools
A Democratic Constitution for Public Education by Paul T. Hill and Ashley E. Jochim. Chicago ; London: The University of Chicago Press, 2015. 143pp., $22.50. Katherine L. Arrington The University of Texas, Austin It is no secret that the American education system currently serves some students better than others. There are persistent patterns of low academic
