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Quality? It’s All in a School’s Reputation

The College Cost Disease: Higher Cost and Lower QualityRobert E. MartinEdward Elgar Pub, $99.95 Numerous books have been written lately suggesting that...

Jumping Off Swings

Jumping Off SwingsJo KnowlesCandlewick Press230 pages. The age-old story of sexual exploration and its shifting allegiances and emotions comes alive through the...

Books Offer a Contrarian View of Education Reform

The Same Thing Over and Over: How School Reformers Get Stuck in Yesterday’s IdeasBy Frederick M. HessHarvard University Press, 286 pages Feel-Bad...

Teen Cyberbullying Investigated: Where Do Your Rights End and Consequences Begin?

Teen Cyberbullying Investigated: Where Do Your Rights End and Consequences Begin?Thomas A. JacobsFree Spirit Publishing Inc.195 pages. Amid all the talk about...

College on the Cheap

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 Success

The Burden of Academic SuccessBy Allison L. HurstLexington Books Whenever a low-income student manages to earn a college degree, it is routinely...

Why Our Prisons are Packed with Black Men

It has taken many years for people to start asking why the majority of inmates in United States prisons are African-American. Perhaps...

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

This groundbreaking book by lawyer, advocate and scholar Michelle Alexander — in a new paperback edition with a foreword by Cornel West — reframes...

Radical Youth Work: Developing Critical Perspectives and Professional Judgement

Brian BeltonRussell House Publishing/International Specialized Book Services 124 pages. $33.95 paperback. Are you ready to question everything you know about youth...

Saving Boys

Wes Moore Two African-American boys are born into poverty in Baltimore. By coincidence, both are named Wes Moore. Both are attracted...

Our Schools Suck: Students Talk Back to a Segregated Nation on the Failures of Urban Education

Gaston Alonso, Noel S. Anderson, Celina Su, Jeanne TheoharisNew York University Press289 pages. $70 hardcover, $22 paperback. Sharing conclusions from separate...

Reforming Child Welfare

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...

The Trauma Myth: The Truth About Sexual Abuse of Children – and Its Aftermath

Susan A. ClancyBasic Books256 pages. $25 When I began researching and writing about child sex abuse two decades ago, one thing...

Souls in Transition: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of Emerging Adults

Reviewed By William Damon, a professor at Stanford University and the author of The Path to Purpose: How Young People Find Their...

Ceremonial Violence: A Psychological Explanation of School Shootings

Jonathan FastThe Overlook Press333 pages. $25.95, $15.95 paperback. School rampage (SR) shootings are “acts of terrorism” that “crush the spirit of...

Building a Children’s Zone

Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada’s Quest to Change Harlem and America By Paul ToughHoughton Mifflin Company296 pages. $26. Geoffrey Canada is...

From Expelled to Excelled

The Last Dropout Bill MillikenHay House241 pages. $14.95 The Last Dropout, written by the founder of Communities in Schools (CIS), is based...

Scout’s Honor

Click on the cover to read a PDF version of the entire book online. Why Now? A few years ago, when Scout’s...

Why ‘Adolescence’ Was a Harmful Invention

By Robert EpsteinQuill Driver Books, March 2007450 pages, $24.95 “Adolescence” is a bonanza for youth programming. Without America’s doctrine that we must...