Education Research and Policy

I've been a bit mentally lethargic over my winter break, but previewing the book list for a class next semester is getting my neurons firing again. The class is Introduction to Education Research and Policy and it's taught by Ken Howe, a professor I know from the Ethics in Education class I took in the fall of 2009. The book list for Ed Research and Policy is long, but there are quite a few on the list that I've wanted to read:

• The Imperative of Integration by Elizabeth Anderson
• Silent Covenants: Brown v. Board of Education and the Unfulfilled Hopes for Racial Reform by Derrick Bell
• Politics, Markets and America's Schools by John E. Chubb and Terry M. Moe
• Experience and Education by John Dewey
• Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980 by Charles Murray
• No Child Left Behind And the Transformation of Federal Education Policy, 1965-2005 by Patrick J. Mcguinn
• Scientific Research in Education by the National Research Council
• Class and Schools: Using Social, Economic, and Educational Reform to Close the Black-White Achievement Gap by Richard Rothstein
• The One Best System: A History of American Urban Education by David Tyack
• The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy by William Julius Wilson

In addition, we have selected readings from DuBois, Ravitch, Coleman, Bowles & Gintis, Foucault, Howe, Eisenhart & Towne, and Morgan & Pullin. It's a lot of reading, but that's the price you pay for a lot of learning. If you have any opinions about the reading list, I'd love to hear about it in the comments.