Book Reviews and Recommended Reading
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Excellence Through Equity - Alan M. Blankstein, Pedro Noguera with Lorena Kelly
Who's Afraid of the Big, Bad Dragon? - Dr. Yong Zhao
World Class Learners: Educating Creative and Entrepreneurial Students - Dr. Yong Zhao
I Am Malala - Malala Yousafzai
How Google Works - Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Roseberg
It's Your Ship: Management Techniques from the Best Damn Ship in the Navy - Michael Abrashoff
Good to Great and the Social Sector - Jim Collins
State of Fear - Michael Crichton
The Children in Room E4: American Education on Trial - Susan Eaton
White Paper on Personalized Learning
Einstein: His Life and Universe - Walter Isaacson
What School Boards Can Do: Reform Governance for Urban Schools - Donald R. McAdams
A Whole New Mind - Daniel Pink
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community - Robert D. Putnam
Leading Leaders: How to Manage Smart, Talented, Rich and Powerful People - Jeswald W. Salacuse
The World is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century - Thomas L. Friedman
Working with Emotional Intelligence - Daniel Goleman
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin
The Freedom Writers Diary and Teach with Your Heart - Erin Gruwell
Iowa Lighthouse Study - Iowa Association of School Boards
Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools - Diane Ravitch
Steve Jobs: The Fascinating Leadership of Apple's Leader
Class Warfare: The Reformers' Case
"The Speed to Trust" in moving districts forward
Leaders of Their Own Learning: Transforming Schools Through Student-Engaged Assessment - Ron Berger
Disney Wars - James B. Stwart
Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary - Juan Williams
It's the Principal of the Thing! - Arthur E. Woznicki
Words that Work: It's Not What You Say, It's What People Hear - Frank Luntz
Saturday Morning Keynote Speaker's Book Review on Leadership
Inside School Turnarounds, Will Hartford's Reforms be Successful?
The Essential School Board Book: Better Governance in the Age of Accountability