Summer is full of required reading lists.
While many kids across the U.S. finish up their summer reading as they gear up to go back to school, here’s a list of recommended reading for understanding how we get our schools and learning opportunities to reflect a new opportunity agenda that allows for Innovation and Opportunity to thrive:
1. How The Other Half Learns: Equality, Excellence, and the Battle Over School Choice
by Robert Pondiscio
2. Charting a New Course: The Case for Freedom, Flexibility, and Opportunity Through Charter Schools
Co-Editors: Jeanne Allen, Cara Candal, Max Eden
4. The Split Screen Strategy: How to Turn Education Into a Self-Improving System
by Ted Kolderie
5. Zero Chance of Passage: The Pioneering Charter School Story
by Ember Rechgott Junge
6. No Struggle No Progress: A Warrior s Life from Black Power to Education Reform
by Howard Fuller with Lisa Frazier Page
7. Education Reform: Before It Was Cool – The Real Story and The Pioneers Who Made It Happen
edited by Jeanne Allen
8. Unleashing Greatness: 9 Plays to Spark Innovation in Education
by Michael Barber & Joel Klein
9. 2020 Vision: A History of the Future
by the GSV team, led by Michael Moe and Deborah Quazzo
10. Blended: Using Disruptive Innovation to Improve Schools
by Michael B. Horn, Heather Staker, Clayton M. Christensen
Did we miss one? Tweet a suggestion to us @edreform!