I’d like a moratorium on publishing any more good books—so I could catch up.  Even if restricted to books on current educational dilemmas from my viewpoint, I can’t catch up.  So over the next week I plan to share four books I’ve been reading about schools and reform, and one “booklet”.  .   There are at least a dozen others that I probably also should read—and will soon.

In no particular order, I’ll start with:

The Failure of Corporate School Reform, by Kenneth Saltman (Paradigm Publishers) brings one up to date on what has been happening in five clear and easily read chapters, the last offering a different path—neither the status quo nor the orporate reform path, but instead what it would take to bring up-to-date an old idea—the common school.