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Possible books for summaries:** Callahan, R.E. (1962). //Education and the cult of efficiency: a study of the social forces that have shaped the administration of the public schools.// Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Dewey, J. (1974). The relation of theory to practice in education. In R.D. Archambault (Ed.), //John Dewey on education// (pp. 313-338). Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Original work published 1904) Freire, P. (2004). //Pedagogy of the Oppressed//. Tr. Myra Ramos. New York: Continuum. (Original work published 1970). New York: Teachers College Press.** **(Sec. 10 Group 6)** Hirsch, E.D. (1987). //Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know.// Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Hoy, W.K. and Miskel, C. G. (2001). //Educational administration: theory, research, and practice,// 6th ed.. New York: McGraw Hill. Jackson, P.W. (1968). //Life in classrooms.// New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston. (Sec. 12 Group 4)** Francisco: Jossey-Bass.** (Sec. 10 Group 1) Johnson, S.M. (1990). //Teachers at Work: Achieving Success in our Schools.// New York: Basic Books. Kliebard, H.M. (1995). //The struggle for the American curriculum: 1893-1958.// 2nd ed. New York: Routledge. McLaren, P. (1986). //Schooling as a ritual performance: towards a political economy of educational symbols and gestures.// London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. Harlem// Boston: Beacon Press.** **(Sec. 13 Group 1)** life.// San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.** (Sec. 10 Group 2) Popkewitz. (1998). //Struggling for the soul: the politics of schooling and the construction of the teacher.// New York: Teachers College Press. Sarason, Seymour. (1996). //Revisiting ‘The culture of the school and the problem of change’.// 3rd ed. New York: Teachers College Press. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.** **(Section 11 Group 3)** Books. (Section 12 Group 6)** Teachers College Press. (Section 11 Group 5)** Tyack, D. and Cuban, L. (1997). //Tinkering toward utopia: a century of public school reform.// Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Wise, A.E. (1979). //Legislated learning: the bureaucratization of the American classroom.// Los Angeles: University of California Press. Works by: Diane Ravitch, Jerome Bruner, Ralph Tyler, John Dewey, George Counts, Phil Jackson, Jonathan Kozol
 * Hansen, D.T. (1995). //The call to teach.// New York: Teachers College Press.** **(Sec. 12 Group 1)**
 * Hansen, D. T. (2001). //Exploring the moral heart of teaching: toward a teacher’s creed.//
 * Hostetler, K. D. (1997). //Ethical judgment in teaching//. Boston: Allyn & Bacon.** **(Sec. 10 Group 3)**
 * Illich, Ivan. (2000). //Deschooling society//. New York: Marion Boyars. (Sec.14 Group 2)
 * Jackson, P.W. (1986). //The practice of teaching.// New York: Teachers College Press.** **(Sec. 13 Group 2)**
 * Jackson, P.W., Boostrom, R.E., & Hansen, D.T. (1993). //The moral life of schools.// San
 * Meier, D. (1995). //The Power of their Ideas: Lessons for America from a Small School in
 * Neil, A.S. (1960). //Summerhill: A Radical Approach to Child Rearing.//** **(Sec. 13 Group 3)**
 * Palmer, P. (1998). //The courage to teach: Exploring the inner landscape of a teacher’s
 * Sizer, T. (1984). //Horace’s Compromise: The Dilemma of the American High School//
 * Tompkins, J. (1996). //A life in school: what the teacher learned.// Boulder, CO: Perseus
 * Tye, B.B. (2000). //Hard truths: uncovering the deep structure of schooling.// New York:
 * //Teacher Man////:// A Memoir //by Frank McCourt// //Publisher: Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group Pub. Date: September 2006 (Section 14 Group 3)//**

//The Closing of the American Mind// (Alan Bloom) //Politics, Markets, and America’s Schools// (John Chubb and Terry Moe) //Keeping Track: How schools structure inequality// (Jeannie Oakes) //Lives on the boundary// (Mike Rose) //Left Back// (Diane Ravitch) //The Republic// (Plato) Freedom Writers (Erin Gruwell) (Section 12 Group 2) The Essential 55 (Ron Clark)(section 14 group 1) Lies My Teacher Told Me- James W. Loewen (Section 12 Group 3)**
 * //Frames of mind: the theory of multiple intelligences// (Howard Gardner) (sect 14 group4???)**
 * //Caring: A feminine approach to ethics and moral education// (Nel Noddings) (Section 11 Group 2)**
 * //Savage Inequality// (Jonathon Kozol)** **(Section 11 Group 1)**
 * //Other People’s Children// (Lisa Delpit)** (Setion 10 Group 5)
 * //The Absorbent Mind// (Maria Montessori) (Section 13 Group 4)**
 * //The Transformation of the School// (Lawrence Cremin)** (Sec. 10 Group 4)
 * //Dumbing Us Down// (John Taylor Gatto) (Section 11 Group 4)