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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

3.  A Nation At Risk

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

 

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