Summer Reading Recommendations from Education Update’s Advisory Council
Charlotte K. Frank, Ph.D.
Senior VP, McGraw-Hill
1. Disrupting Class, by Clayton M. Christensen
2. Never Work Harder Than Your Students, by Robyn R. Jackson - ASCD
3. The BIG Picture, by Dennis Littky
Mary Brabeck, Dean
NYU Steinhardt School of Education
Here are some of the best books recently published by NYU Steinhardt faculty, and of interest to Education Update readers:
1. Tears Before Darkness, by Elizabeth and Michael Norman
2. The Trouble with Black Boys, by Pedro Noguera
3. Methamphetamine Addiction: Biological Foundations, Psychological Factors, and Social Consequences, by Perry Halkitis
4. The Deepening Darkness: Patriarchy, Resistance, and Democracy’s Future, by Carol Gilligan and David A. J. Richard
Bonnie Kaiser, Ph.D., Director
Precollege Program, Rockefeller University
1. My Life in France, by Julia Child and Alex Prud’Homme
2. Proust was a Neuroscientist, by Jonah Lehrer
Augusta S. Kappner, Ph.D.
President Emerita
Bank Street College of Education
1. A History of God: The 4000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, by Karen Armstrong
2. When Mayors Take Charge: School Governance in the City, edited by Joseph P. Viteritti
Eric Nadelstern
Chief Schools Officer, DOE
1. The Nine, by Jeffrey Toobin
2. The Secret of TSL, by William Ouchi (soon to be published)
3. Disrupting Class, by Clay Christensen
4. Sent to the Principal, by Kathleen Cushman
5. Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell
6. Love You Forever, by Robert Munsch, illustrated by Sheila McGraw (children’s book)
Pola Rosen, Ed.D., Publisher
Education Update
1. Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
2. A Different Life by Quinn Bradlee
3.“Women in Power.” Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, Winter-Spring 2009
4. Lighting Their Fires by Rafe Esquith
