booklist
Click on a book title below to learn more about each title; some books have been
reviewed by Common Good staff.  Books by CG Chair Philip K. Howard
Read The Collapse of the Common Good: How America's Lawsuit Culture Undermines our Freedom, by CG Chair Philip K. Howard. Also check out his national bestseller, The Death of Common Sense: How Law is Suffocating America.
 The Path to Purpose: Helping Our Children Find Their Calling in Life, William Damon
(Free Press, April 2008)
 Troublemaker: A Personal History of School Reform since Sputnik, Chester E. Finn, Jr.
(Princeton University Press, February 2008)
 Why School Reform Is Failing and What We Need To Do About It, Jerry Wartgow
(Rowman & Littlefield Education, December 2007)
 American Public Education Law Primer, David C. Bloomfield
(Peter Lang Pub Inc, September 1, 2007)
 The Last Freedom: Religion from the Public School to the Public Square, Joseph P. Viteritti
(Princeton University Press, May 31, 2007)
 Targeting in Social Programs, Peter H. Schuck and Richard J. Zeckhauser
(Brookings Institution Press, November 1, 2006)
 Collective Bargaining in Education: Negotiating Change in Today's Schools, Edited by Andrew Rotherham & Jane Hannaway
(Harvard Education Press, 2006)
 Charter Schools Against the Odds: An Assessment of the Koret Task Force on K-12 Education, Edited by Paul T. Hill
(Hoover Institution Press, 2006)
 The Challenges of No Child Left Behind: Understanding the Issues of Excellence, Accountability and Choice, E. Jane Irons
(Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2006)
 Teachers Have It Easy: The Big Sacrifices and Small Salaries of America’s Teachers, David Eggers, Daniel Moulthrop & Ninive Clements Calegari
(New Press, 2006)
 Inside Teaching: How Classroom Life Undermines Reform, Mary Kennedy
(Harvard University Press, 2006)
 Negligence: What Principals Need to Know About Avoiding Liability, Todd A. DeMitchell
(Rowman & Littlefield, 2006)
 The Dark Side of School Reform, Jeffrey S. Brooks
(Rowman & Littlefield, 2006)
 Turnaround Leadership, Michael Fullan
(Wiley Johns & Sons, Inc., 2006)
 Rethinking Leadership: A Collection of Articles, Thomas J. Sergiovanni
(Sage Publications, 2006)
 Educational Entrepreneurship: Realities, Challenges, Possibilities, Frederick M. Hess
(Harvard Education Press, 2006)
 Tough Choices or Tough Times: The Reports of the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce, NCEE
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2006)
 Learning on the Job: When Business Takes on Public Schools, Steven F. Wilson
(Harvard University Press, 2006)
 Forgotten Heroes of American Education: The Great Tradition of Teaching Teachers, Edited by Diane Ravitch and J. Wesley Null
(Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2006)
 Common Sense School Reform, Frederick M. Hess
(Palgrave Macmillan, April 2004)
 No Excuses: Closing the Racial Gap in Learning, Stephan and Abigail Thernstrom
(Simon & Schuster, October 2003)
 Brief Intervals of Horrible Sanity, Elizabeth Gold
(Jeremy P. Tarcher, September 2003)
 Making Schools Work: A Revolutionary Plan to Get Your Children the Education They Need, Bill Ouchi and Lydia Segal
(Simon & Schuster, September 2003)
 Making Good Citizens: Education and Civil Society, Edited by Diane Ravitch and Joseph P. Viteritti
(Yale, August 2003)
 The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn, Diane Ravitch
(Knopf, April 2003)
 Our Schools & Our Future ...are we still at risk?, Edited by Paul E. Peterson
(Hoover Institution, February 2003)
 The Worm in the Apple: How the Teacher Unions Are Destroying American Education, Peter Brimelow
(HarperCollins, February 2003)
 Judging School Discipline: The Crisis of Moral Authority, Richard Arum
(Harvard, January 2003)
 Breaking Free, Sol Stern
(Encounter Books, September 2002)
 Trust in Schools: A Core Resource for Improvement, Anthony S. Bryk & Barbara Schneider
(Russell Sage Foundation, August 2002)
 School Accountability, Edited by Williamson M. Evers and Herbert J. Walberg
(Hoover Institution, June 2002)
 City Schools: Lessons from New York, Edited by Diane Ravitch and Joseph Viteritti
(Johns Hopkins, June 2000)
 The World We Created at Hamilton High, Gerald Grant
(Harvard, April 1998)
 The Youth Charter: How Communities Can Work Together to Raise Standards for All Our Children, William Damon
(Free Press, November 1997)
 America Goes to School: Law, Reform, and Crisis in Public Education, Robert M. Hardaway
(Praeger, April 1995)
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