This past summer I took a course with the late Mike O'Malley. He had a large reading suggestion list and he was an amazing man. He said these were books that you should read to change your view on the world and change the world. He could talk about every book on this list in detail. I am going to read all of these books as soon as I'm done with school.
So far I can tell you that Excellent Sheep (#31) was amazing! and #28 was really informative. Feel free to save and read these, they all have a little bit to do with Education (teaching).
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Suggested Readings (*Recommended for book-review project):
*Abrams, Samuel E. (2016). Education and the Commercial Mindset. Cambridge: Harvard U. Press.
*Adams, David Wallace (1995). American Indians and the Boarding School Experience, 1875-1928. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas.
*Adler, Mortimer J. (1982). The Paideia Proposal. New York: Macmillan.
*Alexander, Michelle (2010). The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. New York: The New Press.
*Anderson, James D. (1988). The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
*Apple, Michael (2004). Ideology and Curriculum. New York: Routledge.
Aristotle (1967). Aristotle on Education: Being Extracts from the Ethics and Politics. Ed. & tr. John Burnet. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Bailyn, Bernard (1960). Education in the Forming of American Society. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
Ballentine, J. H. (2001). The Sociology of Education: A Systematic Analysis (5th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
*Baptist, Edward (2014). The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism. New York: Basic Books.
*Baum, Howard (2010). Brown in Baltimore: School Desegregation and the Limits of Liberalism. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
*Beckert, Sven (2014). Empire of Cotton: A Global History. New York: Knoph.
*Billing, Glo Ladson (1994). The Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of African American Children. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
*Bimper, Albert Y. (2020). Black Collegiate Athletes and the Neoliberal State: Dreaming from Bended Knee. Lanham, Maryland: Rowan & Littlefield.
*Blackmon, Douglas A. (2008). Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II. New York: Anchor.
*Blight, David (2018). Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom. New York: Simon & Schuster.
*Bloom, Allan (1987). The Closing of the American Mind. New York: Simon & Schuster.
*Broder, David S. (2000). Democracy Derailed: Initiative Campaigns and the Power of Money. New York: Harcourt.
*Brown, M. K., Carnoy, M., Currie, E., Duster, T., Oppenheimer, D. B., Shultz, M. M. & Wellman, D. (2003). Whitewashing Race: The Myth of a Color-Blind Society. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
*Brown, Ruth Nicole (2013). Hear Our Truths: The Creative Potential of Black Girlhood. Champaign: University of Illinois Press.
*Caro, Robert A. (2012). The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Passage of Power. New York: Knopf.
*Case, Anne & Deaton, Angus (2020), Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
*Coates, Ta-Nehisi (2015). Between the World and Me. New York: Spiegel & Grau.
*Coontz, Stephanie (1992). The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap. New York: Basic Books.
*Cowie, Jefferson (2010). Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class. New York: New Press.
*Darling-Hammond, Linda (2010). The Flat World and Education: How America’s Commitment to Equity Will Determine Our Future. New York: Teachers College Press.
*Davis, Mike (1992). City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles. New York: Vintage.
*De Genova, Nicholas (ed.) (2006). Racial Transformations: Latinos and Asians Remaking the United States. Durham: Duke University Press.
*Diamond, Jared (2011). Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. New York: Penguin Books.
*Delpit, Lisa (1995). Other People’s Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom. New York: Free Press.
*Deresiewicz, William (2014). Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life. New York: Free Press.
*Dewey, John (2008). The School and Society. New York: Cosmo Classics.
*DuBois, W.E.B. (1903). The Souls of Black Folk. New York: Penguin Classics.
*Edmundson, Mark (2005). Why Read? New York: Bloomsbury.
*Edmundson, Mark (2013). Why Teach?: In Defense of a Real Education. New York: Bloomsbury.
*Egginton, William (2018). The Splintering of the American Mind: Identity, Politics, Inequality, and Community on Today’s College Campuses. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing.
*Ehrenreich, Barbara. (2002). Nickel and Dimed: On (not) Getting by in America. New York: Henry Holt & Co.
*Fabricant, Michael & Fine, Michelle (2011). Charter Schools and the Corporate Makeover of Public Education: What’s at Stake? New York: Teachers College Press.
*Fass, Paula S. (1989). Outside In: Minorities and the Transformation of American Education. New York: Oxford University Press.
*Freire, Paulo (1968). Pedagogy of the Oppressed. New York: Continuum International Publishing Group.
*Gabor, Andrea (2018). After the Education Wars: How Smart Schools Upend the Business of Reform. New York: The New Press.
*Gardner, Howard (1983). Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences. New York: Basic Books.
*Gatto, John T. (1992). Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling. Philadelphia: New Society Publishers.
*Ginsberg, Benjamin (2011). The Fall of the Faculty: The Rise of the All-Administrative University and Why It Matters. New York: Oxford University Press.
*Giroux, Henry A. (1988). Teachers as Intellectuals: Toward a Critical Pedagogy of Learning. Granby, MA: Bergin & Garvey.
*Giroux, Henry A. (2010). Youth in a Suspect Society: Democracy or Disposability. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
*Gladwell, Malcolm (2008). Outliers: The Story of Success. Boston: Little, Brown and Company.
*Goldstein, Dan (2015). The Teacher Wars: A History of America’s Most Embattled Profession. New York: Anchor.
*Gomory, Ralph E. & Baumol, William J. (2000). Global Trade and Conflicting National Interests. Cambridge: The MIT Press.
*Greene, Maxine (1988). The Dialectic of Freedom. New York: Teachers College Press.
*Greenhouse, Steven (2019). Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
Gutek, G. (1961). Crusade Against Ignorance: Thomas Jefferson on Education. Ed. Gordon C. Lee. New York: Teachers College.
*Gutierrez, David G. (1995). Walls and Mirrors: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the Politics of Ethnicity. Berkeley: University of California Press.
*Hewitt, Ben (2014). Home Grown: Adventures in Parenting off the Beaten Path, Unschooling, and Reconnecting with the Natural World. Boston: Roost Books.
*Hirsch, E.D. (1987). Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know. New York: Vintage.
*hooks, bell (1994). Teaching to Transgress. New York: Routledge.
*Iceland, J. (2003). Poverty in America: A Handbook. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
*Isaacson, Walter (2007). Einstein: His Life and Universe. New York: Simon & Schuster.
*Kendi, Ibram W. (2019). How to Be an Antiracist. New York: One World.
*Khan, Salman (2012). The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined. New York: Twelve.
*Kidder, Tracy (2003). Mountains Beyond Mountains: Healing the World: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer. New York: Random House.
*Klein, Joel (2014). Lessons of Hope: How to Fix Our Schools. New York: Harper.
*Klein, Naomi (2014). This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate. New York: Simon & Schuster.
*Kohn, Alfie (1999). The Schools Our Children Deserve: Moving Beyond Traditional Classrooms and “Tougher Standards.” Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
*Kolbert, Elizabeth (2014). The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History. New York: Henry Holt & Co.
*Kozol, Jonathan (1992). Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s Schools. New York: Harper Collins.
*Kozol, Jonathan (2005). The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America. New York: Crown.
*Kumashiro, Kevin (2008). The Seduction of Common Sense: How the Right Has Framed the Debate on America’s Schools. New York: Teachers College Press.
*Lareau, Annette (2003). Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life. CA: University of California Press.
*Lemann, Nicholas (1999). The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy. New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux.
*Lepore, Jill (2018). These Truths: A History of the United States. New York: Norton.
*Limerick, Patricia Nelson (1987). Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West. New York: Norton.
*Lipman, Pauline (2011). The New Political Economy of Urban Education: Neoliberalism, Race, and the Right to the City. New York: Routledge.
*Louv, Richard (2008). Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder. New York: Algonquin Books.
*Lucas, J. Anthony (1986). Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families. New York: Vintage.
*Lynas, Mark (2008). Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet. New York: National Geographic.
*Macey, David (1993). The Lives of Michel Foucault. New York: Pantheon Books.
*MacGillis, Alec (2021). Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
*McCourt, Frank (2005). Teacher Man: A Memoir. New York: Scribner.
*Meier, Deborah (2002). In Schools We Trust: Creating Communities of Learning in an Era of Testing and Standardization. Boston: Beacon Press.
Menand, Louis (2001). The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.
*Mill, John Stuart (1971). John Stuart Mill on Education. Ed. Francis W. Garforth. New York: Teachers College Press.
*Mills, Charles (2018). Black Rights/White Wrongs: The Critique of Racial Liberalism. New York: Oxford University Press.
*Mishra, Pankaj (2017). The Age of Anger: A History of the Present. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
*Morris, Monique W. (2016). Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools. New York: The New Press.
*Moskowitz, Eva (2017). The Education of Eva Moskowitz: A Memoir. New York: Harper.
*Nazario, Sonia (2007). Enrique’s Journey: The Story of a Boy’s Dangerous Odyssey to Reunite with His Mother. New York: Random House.
*Neill, A.S. (1995). Summerhill School: A New View of Childhood. New York: St. Martin’s Press.
*Nieto, Sonia (2005). Why We Teach. New York: Teachers College Press.
*Noguera, Pedro (2003). City Schools and the American Dream: Reclaiming the Promise of Public Education. New York: Teachers College Press.
*O’Neil, Cathy (2016). Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy. New York: Crown Publishers.
*Orfield, Gary & Eaton, Susan (1997). Dismantling Segregation: The Quiet Reversal of Brown v. Board of Education. New York: New Press.
*Ostler, Jeffrey (2019). Surviving Genocide: Native Nations and the United States from the American Revolution to Bleeding Kansas. New Haven: Yale University Press.
*Packer, George (2013). The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
*Patel, Lisa (2012). Youth Held at the Border: Immigration, Education, and the Politics of Inclusion. New York: Teachers College Press.
*Perlstein, Rick (2008). Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America. New York: Scribner.
*Phillips, Kevin (2007). Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism. New York: Viking.
*Picketty, Thomas (2014). Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Cambridge: The Belknap Press of the Harvard University Press.
*Pope, Denise (2003). Doing School: How We Are Creating a Generation of Stressed-Out, Materialistic, and Miseducated Students. New Haven: Yale University Press.
*Putnam, Robert (2015). Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis. New York: Simon Schuster.
*Ravitch, Diane (2013). Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America’s Public Schools. New York: Knoph.
*Rediker, Marcus (2007). The Slave Ship: A Human History. New York: Viking.
*Robinson, Ken (2011). Out of Our Minds: Learning to Be Creative. Oxford: Capstone.
*Robinson, Ken with Aronica, Lou (2015). Creative Schools: The Grassroots Revolution That’s Transforming Education. New York: Viking.
*Roediger, D. R. (2002). Colored White: Transcending the Racial Past. Berkeley. CA: University of California Press.
*Royster, D. A. (2003). Race and the Invisible Hand: How White Networks Exclude Black Men from Blue-Collar Jobs. Berkeley. CA: University of California Press.
*Russakoff, Dale (2015). The Prize: Who’s in Charge of America’s Schools? New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
*Sahlberg, Pasi (2011). Finnish Lessons: What Can the World Learn from Educational Change in Finland. New York: Teachers College Press.
*San Miguel, Guadalupe (2005). Brown, Not White: School Integration and the Chicano Movement in Houston. College Station: Texas A&M Press.
*Sandel, Michael (2020). The Tyranny of Merit: What’s Become of the Common Good? New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
*Schneider, Mercedes (2016). School Choice: The End of Public Education. New York: Teachers College Press.
*Schultz, Brian (2008). Spectacular Things Happen Along the Way: Lessons from an Urban Classroom. New York: Teachers College Press.
*Selingo, Jeffrey (2020). Who Gets In and Why: A Year Inside College Admissions. New York: Scribner.
*Sleeter, C. & Banks, J. (2002). Culture, Difference and Power. New York: Teachers College Press.
*Sperber, Murray (2000). Beer & Circus: How Big-Time College Sports Has Crippled Undergraduate Education. New York: Holt.
*Spring, Joel (2002). American Education. Boston: McGraw Hill.
117.Steiner, Rudolf (1967). Discussions with Teachers. Tr. Helen Fox. London: Rudolf Steiner Press.
*Strum, Philippa (2010). Mendez v Westminster: School Desegregation and Mexican-American Rights. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press.
* Suitts, Steve (2020). Overturning Brown: The Segregationist Legacy of the Modern School Choice Movement. Montgomery, Alabama: NewSouth Books.
*Takaki, Ronald (1994). A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America. Boston: Back Bay Books.
*Tuchman, Gaye (2009). Wannabe U: Inside the Corporate University. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
*Tyson, Timothy B. (2017). The Blood of Emmett Till. New York: Simon & Schuster.
*Villasenor, Victor (2004). Burro Genius: A Memoir. New York: Rayo.
*Waldinger, R. & Lichter, M. I. (2003). How the Other Half Works: Immigration and the Social Organization of Labor. CA: University of California Press.
*Wilkerson, Isabel (2020). Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. New York: Random House.
*Zhao, Yong (2014). Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Dragon? Why China Has the Best (and Worst) Education System in the World. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
*Zimmerman, Jonathan (2002). Whose America? Culture Wars in the Public Schools. Boston: Harvard University Press.
*Zizek, Slavoj (2014). Trouble in Paradise: From the End of History to the End of Capitalism. London: Allen Lane.
Readings suggested during class June 21-30, 2021
Smith, Adam. (1776). The Wealth of Nations.
Hannah-Jones, Nikole. The 1619 Project. The New York Times
Conover, Ted. (2000). Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing.
Schlesinger Jr., Arthur M. (1945). The Age of Jackson.
Graever, David. (2018). Bullshit Jobs.
Olson & Kutner (2008). Grand Theft of Childhood.
Gabler, Neal. (1988). An Empire of Their Own.
Plato (375 BC) Republic
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1762). Emile, or Treatise on Education.
Damrosch, Leo (2005). Jean Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius.
Dickens, Charles (1854). Hard Times.
Adams, Jane (1910). Twenty Years at Hull-House
Smallwood, Christine (2021). The Life of the Mind: A Novel.
Defoe, Daniel (1719). Robinson Crusoe.
Tolstoy, Leo (1869). War and Peace.
Shelley, Mary (1817). Frankenstein.
Wollstonecraft, Mary (1792). A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political Moral Subjects.
Washington, Booker T. (1901). Up from Slavery.
Du Bois, W. E. B. (1899). The Philadelphia Negro.
Prof. O’Malley suggested reading all books from Jeffery Ostler.
Ellis, Joseph J. (1996). American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson.
Chernow, Ron (2004). Alexander Hamilton.
Brechin, Gray (1999). Imperial San Francisco: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin.
Meyer, Stephen P. (1981). The five dollar day.
Reich, Robert (1983). The Next American Frontier.
Singer, Peter. (1975). Animal Liberation. (1979, 2011 ed.) Practical Ethics.
(20090. The Life you can Save
McLaren, Peter (2007). Critical Pedagogy. Where are we now?
Bowles, Samuel (1976). Schooling in Capitalist America.
Movies:
“I am not your Negro.” James Baldwin
“Arguing the World” Joseph Dorman
“Love and Death” Woody Allen
“Waking Life” Richard Linklater