The Education Next Book Club features in-depth interviews by
Mike Petrilli with authors of new and classic books about education.

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
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