Debt-Free U By Zac BissonnettePortfolio Trade304 pages If American higher education is about to get its comeuppance, as many experts are predicting,...
The Burden of Academic SuccessBy Allison L. HurstLexington Books Whenever a low-income student manages to earn a college degree, it is routinely...
It has taken many years for people to start asking why the majority of inmates in United States prisons are African-American. Perhaps...
This groundbreaking book by lawyer, advocate and scholar Michelle Alexander — in a new paperback edition with a foreword by Cornel West — reframes...
Wes Moore Two African-American boys are born into poverty in Baltimore. By coincidence, both are named Wes Moore. Both are attracted...
Brian BeltonRussell House Publishing/International Specialized Book Services 124 pages. $33.95 paperback. Are you ready to question everything you know about youth...
Gaston Alonso, Noel S. Anderson, Celina Su, Jeanne TheoharisNew York University Press289 pages. $70 hardcover, $22 paperback. Sharing conclusions from separate...
Olivia GoldenThe Urban Institute Press300 pages. $29.50 paperback. “When parents can’t or won’t” keep their children safe, writes Olivia Golden, the public...
Susan A. ClancyBasic Books256 pages. $25 When I began researching and writing about child sex abuse two decades ago, one thing...
Reviewed By William Damon, a professor at Stanford University and the author of The Path to Purpose: How Young People Find Their...
Jonathan FastThe Overlook Press333 pages. $25.95, $15.95 paperback. School rampage (SR) shootings are “acts of terrorism” that “crush the spirit of...
Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada’s Quest to Change Harlem and America By Paul ToughHoughton Mifflin Company296 pages. $26. Geoffrey Canada is...
The Last Dropout Bill MillikenHay House241 pages. $14.95 The Last Dropout, written by the founder of Communities in Schools (CIS), is based...
Click on the cover to read a PDF version of the entire book online. Why Now? A few years ago, when Scout’s...
By Robert EpsteinQuill Driver Books, March 2007450 pages, $24.95 “Adolescence” is a bonanza for youth programming. Without America’s doctrine that we must...
By Juan WilliamsRandom House256 pages; $25 You might not be able to judge a book by its cover, but you can sometimes...