Reading List

Here is a list of the 16 books  recommended by the PGCTF as preparation for a career in teaching.  I will be reading and commenting on each book as I go, as well as adding new books to the list.

Comer, James. Maggie’s American Dream: The Life and Times of a Black Family. New American Library (New York), 1988.

Delpit, Lisa. Other People’s Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom. The New Press (New York), 1995.

Dewey, John. Experience and Education. Simon & Schuster, 1938.

Grant, Gerald. The World We Created at Hamilton High. Harvard University Press (Cambridge), 1988.

Johnston, Michael. In the Deep Heart’s Core. Grove Press (New York), 2002.

Kotlowitz, Alex. There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America. Doubleday (New York), 1991.

Kozol, Jonathan. Amazing Grace. Crown (New York), 1995.

Kozol, Jonathan. Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s Schools. Crown (New York), 1991.

Lortie, Dan C. Schoolteacher. The University of Chicago Press (Chicago), 1975.

Paley, Vivian. Wally’s Stories: Conversations in the Kindergarten. Harvard University Press (Cambridge), 1981.

Paley, Vivian. White Teacher. Harvard University Press (Cambridge), 1989.

Rodriguez, Luís. Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L. A. Curbstone (Los Angeles), 1993.

Rose, Mike. Lives on the Boundary. Penguin Books (New York), 1989.

Stevenson, Harold and Stigler, James. The Learning Gap: Why Our Schools Are Failing and What We Can Learn from Japanese and Chinese Education. Summit Books (New York), 1992.

Tyack, David & Cuban, Larry. Tinkering Toward Utopia: A Century of Public School Reform. Harvard University Press (Cambridge), 1995.

Wong, Harry K., and Wong, Rosemary T. The First Days of School. Harry K. Wong Publications, Inc. (Mountainview), 199