Read & Watch

Recommended Reading

	Class Warfare: Inside the Fight to Fix America’s Schools Steven Brill
	Cheating Our Kids: How Politics and Greed Ruin Education Joe Williams, Executive Director of Democrats for Education Reform
	Work Hard, Be Nice: How Two Inspired Teachers Created the Most Promising Schools in America Jay Mathews
	The Bee Eater: Michelle Rhee Takes on the Nation’s Worst School District Richard Whitmire
	Escalante: The Best Teacher in America Jay Mathews
	Education Myths: What Special Interest Groups Want You to Believe About Our Schools–And Why It Isn’t So Jay Greene
	No Excuses: Closing the Racial Gap in Learning Abigail and Stephan Thernstrom
	Teach Like a Champion: 49 Techniques that Put Students on the Path to College Doug Lemov

Further book recommendations are here .

New Yorker article about NYC’s infamous Rubber Rooms, which captures how impossible it is to remove even the worst teachers.

Is blaming teachers for students’ failures like blaming oncologists when cancer patients die? No! Click here, here and here.

The importance of teacher quality–and how few low-income, minority students get high-quality teachers.

Randi Weingarten’s tough spot.

Teachers unions are not the cause of the dreadful system.

The homework myth.

The underpaid teachers myth.

The hidden teacher spending gap.

A defense of Weighted Student Funding

Thoughts on vouchers.

The class size myth: click here and here.

Ending social promotion.

Affirmative action.

Recommended Viewing

1) One of the key milestones in KIPP’s development was when Mike Wallace of 60 Minutes did a segment on KIPP in August 2000. Don and Doris Fisher, founders of the Gap, saw it and shortly thereafter offered to bankroll KIPP’s expansion — and the rest, as they say, is history.

60 Minutes: Mike Wallace reports on KIPP

KIPP was also profiled in a PBS special called Making Schools Work.