The Education Next Book Club features in-depth interviews by
Mike Petrilli with authors of new and classic books about education.
Chester E. Finn, Jr. and Brandon L. Wright
Failing our Brightest Kids: The Global Challenge of Educating High-Ability Students
Dale Russakoff
The Prize: Who’s in Charge of America’s Schools?

Greg Toppo
The Game Believes In You

Paul Hill and Ashley Jochim
A Democratic Constitution for Public Education

Laurence Steinberg
Age of Opportunity

Dana Goldstein
The Teacher Wars

Elizabeth Green
Building a Better Teacher

Richard Whitmire
On the Rocketship: How Top Charter Schools Are Pushing the Envelope

Sam Chaltain
Our School: Searching for Community in the Era of Choice

Eric Hanushek, Paul E. Peterson, and Ludger Woessmann
Endangering Prosperity: A Global View of the American School

Richard Colvin
Tilting at Windmills

Sarah Carr
Hope Against Hope: Three Schools, One City, and the Struggle to Educate America’s Children

Michelle Rhee
Radical: Fighting to Put Students First

Tony Wagner
Creating Innovators

Andy Smarick
The Urban School Systems of the Future

David Cohen
Teaching and its Predicaments

Nathan Levenson
Smarter Budgets, Smarter Schools

Paul Tough
How Children Succeed

Clayton Christensen, Michael Horn, and Curtis W. Johnson
Disrupting Class
Diane Ravitch
The Death and Life of the Great American School System
Paul Tough
Whatever It Takes
Checker E. Finn Jr.
Troublemaker: A Personal History of School Reform since Sputnik
Paul E. Peterson
Saving Schools: From Horace Mann to Virtual Learning
Peg Tyre
The Good School
Frederick M. Hess
The Same Thing Over and Over: How School Reformers Get Stuck in Yesterday’s Ideas
Richard Kahlenberg
Tough Liberal: Albert Shanker and the Battles Over Schools, Unions, Race, and Democracy
Gene Maeroff
School Boards in America: A Flawed Exercise in Democracy
Jay Mathews
Work Hard. Be Nice.: How Two Inspired Teachers Created the Most Promising Schools in America
John Merrow
The Influence of Teachers: Reflections on Teaching and Leadership
Terry Moe
Special Interest: Teachers Unions and America’s Public Schools
Alexander Russo
Stray Dogs, Saints, and Saviors; Fighting for the Soul of America’s Toughest High School
David Whitman
Sweating the Small Stuff: Inner-City Schools and the New Paternalism
Richard Whitmire
The Bee Eater: Michelle Rhee Takes on the Nation’s Worst School District
Daniel Willingham
Why Don’t Students Like School: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for The Classroom