Education

• Addicted to reform: a twelve-step program to rescue public education. John Merrow. 371.01 MER
• After the education wars: how smart schools upend the business of reform. Andrea Gabor. 370.973 GAB
• American band: music, dreams, and coming of age in the heartland. Ind. Coll. 784.83 LAI
• American teacher: heroes in the classroom. 371.1 FRI
• The Amish schools of Indiana. Ind. Coll. 371.071
• The aqua-net diaries: big hair, big dreams, small town. 373.772 NIV
• Assessing and teaching beginning readers: a picture is worth 1000 words. J 372.41 MAT Parenting
• At play: teaching teenagers theater. 792.023 SWA
• The battle for Room 314: my year of hope and despair in a New York City high school. Ed Boland. 373.11 BOL
• Beyond measure: rescuing an overscheduled, overtested, underestimated generation. Vicki Abeles. 370.973 ABE
• Beyond the blackboard: lessons on love from the School With No Name. 371.826 BES
• Big book of bulletin boards for every month. 371.335 CHE
• The black-white achievement gap. 379.26 PAI
• Blackboard: a personal history of the classroom. 814 BUZ
• The blackboard and the bottom line: why schools can’t be businesses. 371.195 CUB
• The book whisperer: awakening the inner reader in every child. 372.6 MIL
• Born to rise: a story of children and teachers reaching their highest potential. 371.826 KEN
• Boys and girls learn differently! 370.151 GUR
• Boys in poverty: a framework for understanding dropout. Ruby K. Payne, Paul D. Slocumb. 371.2913 PAY
• Brain rules: 12 principles for surviving and thriving at work, home, and school. 612.82 MED
• The bridge to brilliance: how one principal in a tough community is inspiring the world. Nadia Lopez. 371.01 LOP
• Building a better teacher: how teaching works (and how to teach it to everyone). 371.102 GRE
• Building a school of one: one school’s journey: Goshen High School’s efforts to increase rigor and support every student. Ind. Coll. 373.772 KIR
• Building blocks: making children successful in the early years of school. 372.21 MAE
• Building character from the start: 201 activities to foster creativity, literacy, and play in K-3. J 372.011 RAG Parenting
• Building engaged schools. 371.102 GOR
• Bully: an action plan for teachers and parents to combat the bullying crisis. 371.78 BUL
• The bully, the bullied, and the bystander. 371.78 COL
• Careers in education. 370.23 REI
• A chance to make history: what works and what doesn’t in providing an excellent education for all. 371.102 KOP
• Cheating our kids: how politics and greed ruin education. 379 WIL
• Chicken soup for the soul in the classroom: lesson plans and students’ favorite stories for reading comprehension, writing skills, critical thinking, character building.  372.19 CHI, 373.236 CHI, 373.238 CHI
• Chicken soup for the soul: teacher tales. 371.1 CHI
• Class warfare: inside the fight to fix America’s schools. 371.01 BRI
• Confessions of a bad teacher: the shocking truth from the front lines of American public education. 371.01 OWE
• Content area reading, writing, and storytelling. J 372.67 ELL Parenting
• Conversations with great teachers. 371.1 SMO
• Creating Room to Read: a story of hope in the battle for global literacy. 0124 WOO
• The creative teacher. 371.3 SPR
• Critical lessons: what our schools should teach. 373.11 NOD
• The death and life of the great American school system: how testing and choice are undermining education. 370.973 RAV
• Deeper learning: how eight innovative public schools are transforming education in the twenty-first century. Monica R. Martinez, Dennis McGrath. 371.207 MAR
• Divided we fail: the story of an African American community that ended the era of school desegregation. 379.263 GAR
• Drama high: the incredible true story of a brilliant teacher, a struggling town, and the magic of theater. 373.224 SOK
• Educating all God’s children: what Christians can– and should– do to improve public education for low-income kids. 261.832 FUL
• Educating Esme: diary of a teacher’s first year. 372.11 COD
• The end of molasses classes: getting our kids unstuck: 101 extraordinary solutions for parents and teachers. 371.102 CLA
• The end of the rainbow: how educating for happiness (not money) would transform our schools. Susan Engel. 370.1 ENG
• Enriching the brain. 370.152 JEN
• Every child ready to read: literacy tips for parents. 372.414 EVE
• Everything a new elementary school teacher really needs to know: (but didn’t learn in college). 371.1024 KRI
• Everything sucks: losing my mind and finding myself in a high school quest for cool. Y 305.235 FRI
• F in exams: the very best totally wrong test answers. 371.26 BEN
• Faith ed: teaching about religion in an age of intolerance. Linda K. Wertheimer. 379.28 WER
• Feel-bad education: and other contrarian essays on children and schooling. 370.973 KOH
• Fight to learn: the struggle to go to school. Laura Scandiffio. Y 306.43 SCA
• Fire in the ashes: twenty-five years among the poorest children in America. Jonathan Kozol. 362.775 KOZ
• Free to learn: why unleashing the instinct to play will make our children happier, more self-reliant, and better students for life. 155.418 GRA
• Games with books. 028.8 KAY
• Getting schooled: the reeducation of an American teacher. 373.11 KEI
• The giant encyclopedia of lesson plans for children 3 to 6. J 372.21 GIA Parenting
• The global achievement gap. 375.006 WAG
• The good school: how smart parents get their kids the education they deserve. 371.192 TYR
• The hardest questions aren’t on the test: lessons from an innovative urban school. 371.2 NAT
• Hearing our teacher’s voice: the pursuit of faithfulness at Bethany Christian Schools. Ind. Coll. 373.772
• Hoosier school heist: how corporations and theocrats stole democracy from public education. 379.152 MAR
• Hope against hope: three schools, one city, and the struggle to educate America’s children. 370.976 CAR
• How children succeed: grit, curiosity, and the hidden power of character. 372.21 TOU
• How Lincoln learned to read: twelve great Americans and the educations that made them. 370.973 WOL
• How schools work: an inside account of failure and success from one of the nation’s longest-serving secretaries of education. Arne Duncan. 379.2 DUN
• How to choose the best preschool for your child: the ultimate guide to finding, getting into, and preparing for nursery school. 372.21 WAN
• How to raise an amazing child: the Montessori way. 649.68 SEL
• How to tutor your own child: boost grades and inspire a lifelong love of learning–without paying for a professional tutor. 371.394 RUB
• How to walk to school: blueprint for a neighborhood school renaissance. 371.2 EDE
• How we learn: the surprising truth about when, where, and why it happens. Benedict Carey. 153.15 CAR
• How your child learns best. 370.152 WIL
• I got schooled: the unlikely story of how a moonlighting movie maker learned the five keys to closing America’s education gap. 371.826 SHY
• I wish my teacher knew: how one question can change everything for our kids. Kyle Schwartz. 370.114 SCH
• I’d like to apologize to every teacher I ever had: my year as a rookie teacher at Northeast High. 371.1 DAN
• Improbable scholars: the rebirth of a great American school system and a strategy for America’s schools. David L. Kirp. 371.207 KIR
• Inclusive lesson plans throughout the year. 372.13 INC
• Inside secrets of finding a teaching job. 371.1 WAR
• Intelligence and how to get it. 153.9 NIS
• International perspectives on education. 370.9 INT
• It takes a school: the extraordinary story of an American school in the world’s #1 failed state. Jonathan Starr. 373.09 STA
• It’s not all flowers and sausages: my adventures in second grade. 372.11 SCO
• Janice VanCleave’s teaching the fun of science to young learners. J 372.35 VAN Parenting
• Key learning skills for children with autism spectrum disorders: a blueprint for life. 371.94 WHI
• The knowledge deficit: closing the shocking education gap for American children. 372.4 HIR
• The last dropout: stop the epidemic! 371.29 MIL
• The last thousand: one school’s promise in a nation at war. Jeffrey E. Stern. 370.95 STE
• The last word: the best commentary and controversy in American education. 370.973 LAS
• The learning habit: a groundbreaking approach to homework and parenting that helps our children succeed in school and life. Stephanie Donaldson-Pressman, Rebecca Jackson, Robert Pressman. 371.3028 DON
• Lessons of hope: how to fix our schools. Joel Klein. 371.207 KLE
• Letters to a young teacher. 371.1 KOZ
• Light up your child’s mind: finding a unique pathway to happiness and success. 371.95 REN
• Lit up: one reporter, three schools, twenty-four books that can change lives. David Denby. 809 DEN
• Little big minds: sharing philosophy with kids. 108 MACC
• The little book of restorative discipline for schools. 371.5 AMS
• Little girls can be mean: four steps to bully-proof girls in  the early grades. 302.34 ANT
• Lost at school: why our kids with behavioral challenges are falling through the cracks and how we can help them. 371.93 GRE
• Loving learning: how progressive education can save America’s schools. Tom Little, Katherine Ellison. 371.3 LIT
• The making of Americans: democracy and our schools. 375.006 HIR
• Math coach: a parent’s guide to helping children succeed in math. 510.71 WIC
• Math doesn’t suck: how to survive middle school math without losing your mind or breaking a nail. Y 510 MACK
• McGraw-Hill’s Spanish for educators. 468.342 DIA
• Middle school makeover: improving the way you and your child experience the middle school years. Michelle Icard. 373.236 ICA
• The minds of boys: saving our sons from falling behind in school and life. 370.15 GUR
• Mission High: one school, how experts tried to fail it, and the students and teachers who made it triumph. Kristina Rizga. 371.262 RIZ
• More than a score: the new uprising against high-stakes testing. 371.26 MOR
• Most likely to succeed: preparing our kids for the innovation era. Tony Wagner, Ted Dintersmith. 371.207 WAG
• The motivation breakthrough: 6 secrets to turning on the tuned-out child. 370.154 LAV
• “Multiplication is for white people”: raising expectations for other people’s children. 379.26 DEL
• The muses go to school: inspiring stories about the importance of arts in education. 700.71 MUS
• The new cool: a visionary teacher, his FIRST robotics team, and the ultimate battle of smarts. 629.892 BAS
• The new kids: big dreams and brave journeys at a high school for immigrant teens. 373.18 HAU
• No citizen left behind. Meira Levinson. 370.115 LEV
• Nothing daunted: the unexpected education of two society girls in the West. 371.1 WIC
• Now you see it: how the brain science of attention will transform the way we live, work, and learn. 153.7 DAV
• 101 great classroom games. 371.337 LUD
• One teacher in ten in the new millennium: LGBT educators speak out about what’s gotten better and what hasn’t. 371.1008 ONE
• The one world schoolhouse: education reimagined. 371.334 KHA
• Open the door: how to excite young people about poetry. 808.1 OPE
• Opportunities in adult education careers. 374.002
• The opportunity equation: how citizen teachers are combating the achievement gap in America’s schools. Eric Schwarz. 370.973 SCH
• Our school: the inspiring story of two teachers, one big idea, and the school that beat the odds. 371.01 JAC
• Overcoming school anxiety. 649.124 PET
• The parent backpack for Kindergarten through grade 5: how to support your child’s education, end homework meltdowns, and build parent-teacher connections. 192 NIC
• A parents’ and teachers’ guide to bilingualism. 404.2 BAK
• Parents’ guide to IQ testing and gifted education. 371.95 PAL
• A parents’ guide to the middle school years. 373.236 BRU
• Poetry aloud here 2: sharing poetry with children. Sylvia M. Vardell. 372.64 VAR
• The price of stones: building a school for my village. Twesigye Jackson Kaguri. 967.61 KAG
• The priority list: a teacher’s final quest to discover life’s greatest lessons. 371.1 MEN
• The prize: who’s in charge of America’s schools? Dale Russakoff. 371.207 RUS
• The promise of a pencil: how an ordinary person can create extraordinary change. 371.826 BRA
• Promises kept: raising Black boys to succeed in school and in life. 371.829 BRE
• Push has come to shove: getting our kids the education they deserve, even if it means picking a fight. 370.1 PER
• Radical: fighting to put students first. 371.01 RHE
• Raising confident readers: how to teach your child to read and write, from baby to age seven. 372.414 GEN
• Raising the curve: a year inside one of America’s 45,000* failing public schools. 372.97 BER
• Raising young children well: insights and ideas for parents and teachers. 649.122 RAI
• Reaching boys, teaching boys: strategies that work – and why. 371.821 REI
• The read-aloud handbook. Jim Trelease. 3726 TRE
• Reading in the brain. 153 DEH
• Reading in the wild: the book whisperer’s keys to cultivating lifelong reading habits. 372.4 MIL
• Ready for Kindergarten!: from recognizing colors to making friends, your essential guide to Kindergarten prep. Deborah J. Stewart. 372.21 STE
• Real education: four simple truths for bringing America’s schools back to reality. 370 MUR
• Real talk for real teachers: advice for teachers from rookies to veterans: “no retreat, no surrender”. Rafe Esquith. 371.102 ESQ
• Reign of error: the hoax of the privatization movement and the danger to America’s public schools. 371.01 RAV
• Relentless pursuit: a year in the trenches with Teach for America. 371.1 FOO
• Reluctant disciplinarian: advice on classroom management from a softy who became (eventually) a successful teacher. 371.1024 RUB
• Research ate my brain: the panic-proof guide to surviving homework. Y 371.302 RES
• Ridiculous/hilarious/terrible/cool: a year in an American high school. Y 373.18 COO
• The road out: a teacher’s odyssey in poor America. Deborah Hicks. 371.822 HIC
• Saving the school: the true story of a principal, a teacher, a coach, a bunch of kids, and a year in the crosshairs of education reform. Michael Brick. 373.76 BRI
• School kids/street kids: identity development in Latino students. 371.82 FLO
• The school revolution: a new answer for our broken education system. 370.1 PAU
• The schoolhouse gate: public education, the Supreme Court, and the battle for the American mind. Justin Driver. 344.079 DRI
• Screen schooled: two veteran teachers expose how technology overuse is making our kids dumber. Joe Clement, Matt Miles. 371.334 CLE
• Secrets of a buccaneer-scholar: how self-education and the pursuit of passion can lead to a lifetime of success. 371.394 BAC
• See me after class: advice for teachers by teachers. 371.1 ELD
• The secrets of top students: tips, tools, and techniques for acing high school and college. Stefanie Weisman. Y 371.302 WEI
• Setting limits in the classroom: a complete guide to effective classroom management with a school-wide discipline plan. 371.102 MACK
• The shame of the nation: the restoration of apartheid schooling in America. 379.263 KOZ
• The smartest kids in the world: and how they got that way. Amanda Ripley. 370.9 RIP
• Soar: how boys learn, succeed, and develop character. 371.821 BAN
• Something must be done about Prince Edward County: a family, a Virginia town, a civil rights battle. Kristen Green. 379.263 GRE
• Spanish bulletin boards. 371.335 BRI
• Starting with stories: engaging multiple intelligences through children’s books. 649.58 SCH
• Storytime: young children’s literary understanding in the classroom. J 372.6 SIP Parenting
• Substitute: going to school with a thousand kids. Nicholson Baker. 371.1 BAK
• Teach like a champion. 371.3 LEM
• Teach like your hair’s on fire. 372.1 ESQ
• Teach with your heart: lessons I learned from the Freedom Writers. 373.11 GRU
• Teacher man. B McCourt, Large Type B McCourt, CD B McCourt
• The teacher wars: a history of America’s most embattled profession. Dana Goldstein. 371.102 GOL
• Teachers have it easy: the big sacrifices and small salaries of America’s teachers. 371.1 MOU
• Teaching as leadership: how highly effective teachers close the achievement gap. 371.102 FAR
• Teaching what really happened: how to avoid the tyranny of textbooks and get students excited about doing history. 973 LOE
• Teens, technology, and literacy, or, Why bad grammar isn’t always bad. 373.133 BRA
• 32 third graders and one class bunny. 371.1 DON
• Tim Gunn: the natty professor: a master class on mentoring, motivating, and making it work! Tim Gunn. 371.102 GUN
• Time to learn: how a new school schedule is making smarter kids, happier parents, and safer neighborhoods. 371.24 GAB
• To teach: the journey, in comics. William Ayers, Ryan Alexander-Tanner. Graphic 371.102 AYE
• Waiting for “Superman”: how we can save America’s failing public schools. 379.158 WAI, DVD 379.158
• Weapons of mass instruction: a schoolteacher’s journey through the dark world of compulsory schooling. 370.1 GAT
• What every parent needs to know about 1st, 2nd & 3rd grades. 372.241 BIC
• What I didn’t know: true stories of becoming a teacher. 371.1 WHA
• What teachers make: in praise of the greatest job in the world. 371.1 MAL
• What your first (second) grader needs to know. 241 WHA
• What your fourth (fifth, sixth) grader needs to know. 372.242 WHA
• What your kindergartner needs to know: preparing your child for a lifetime of learning. 372.218 WHA
• What your preschooler needs to know. 372.21 WHA
• What’s whole in whole language? 372.62 GOO
• White’s rules: saving our youth one kid at a time. 371.93 WHI
• Why boys fail. 371.821 WHI
• “Why do only white people get abducted by aliens?”: teaching lessons from the Bronx. 373.74 GAR
• Why don’t students like school? 370.15 WIL
• Wonderland: a year in the life of an American high school. 305.235 BAM
• Your kids & sports. 796.083 KOE
• Your child’s strengths. 370.15 FOX
• Your successful preschooler: ten skills children need to become confident and socially engaged. 649.68 DEN

HOMESCHOOLING

• Aha!: how to teach math so kids get it. 649.68 GAS
• The brainy bunch: the Harding family’s method to college ready by age twelve. 371.192 HAR
• College-prep homeschooling: your complete guide to homeschooling through high school. 371.042 BYE
• The everything guide to homeschooling: all you need to create the best curriculum and learning environment for your child. 371.042 LIN
• For the children’s sake: foundations of education for home and school. 370.1 MACA
• Free range learning: how homeschooling changes everything. 371.042 WEL
• Home education in Indiana. 371.042 HOM
• Homeschooling: a family’s journey. 371.042 MIL
• Homeschooling FAQs: 101 questions every homeschooling parent should ask. 371.042 ORR
• The homeschooling option: how to decide when it’s right for your family. 371.042 RIV
• Homeschooling the child with ADD (or other special needs). 371.042 HAY
• 100 top picks for homeschool curriculum. J 371.042 DUF Parenting
• Real lives: eleven teenagers who don’t go to school tell their own stories. 371.394 REA
• So, why do you homeschool? J 371.042 DAV Parenting
• The ultimate homeschool physical education game book. 371.042 BAI
• The well-adjusted child: the social benefits of homeschooling. 371.042 GAT
• Write these laws on your children: inside the world of conservative Christian homeschooling. 371.042 KUN
• The year of learning dangerously: adventures in homeschooling. 371042 CUM

DISABILITIES

• Different learners: identifying, preventing, and treating your child’s learning problems. 371.9 HEA
• The dyslexia empowerment plan: a blueprint for renewing your child’s confidence and love of learning. 616.8553 FOS
• For the benefit of those who see: dispatches from the world of the blind. 371.911 MAH
• The gift of dyslexia. 371.914 DAV
• A guide to special education advocacy. 344.079 COH
• Helping children with Down syndrome communicate better. 649.15 KUM
• The hidden link between vision and learning: why millions of learning-disabled children are misdiagnosed. Wendy Beth Rosen. 371.911 ROS
• It’s so much work to be your friend: helping the child with learning disabilities find social success. 371.92 LAV
• Learning disabilities: A to Z: a complete guide to learning disabilities from preschool to adulthood. 371.92 SMI
• The learning tree: overcoming learning disabilities from the ground up. 371.9043 GRE
• Literacy and your deaf child. 371.912 STE
• Negotiating the special education maze: a guide for parents & teachers. 371.91 NEG
• Nolo’s IEP guide: learning disabilities. 371.9 SIE
• A parent’s guide to developmental delays. 649.152 LEC
• School success for kids with Asperger’s syndrome. 618.9289 SIL
• See Johnny read!: the 5 most effective ways to end your son’s reading problems. 372.41 WOO
• Social skills games and activities for kids with autism. 371.94 ASH
• A special education: one family’s journey through the maze of learning disabilities. 306.8743 BUC
• Square peg: my story and what it means for raising innovators, visionaries, and out-of-the-box thinkers. L. Todd Rose. 371.9 ROS
• Thinking differently: an inspiring guide for parents of children with learning disabilities. David Flink. 371.9 FLI
• When babies read: a practical guide to help young children with hyperlexia, Asperger syndrome and high-functioning autism. 371.914 JEN
• Why cant u teach me 2 read?: three students and a mayor put our schools to the test. 372.43 FER
• Widening the circle: the power of inclusive classrooms. 371.9046 SAP
• Word play: fun games for building reading and writing skills in children with learning differences. 371.914 GOO

FICTION

• Home school. Charles Webb. Fic WEB
• Lessons of the heart: four novellas in which modern teachers learn about love. Rel. Fic LES
• Schoolhouse brides. Rel. Fic SCH
• Teaching stories. 808.83 TEA

REFERENCE

• Education: meeting America’s needs? R 300.7 INF
• Greenwood dictionary of education. R 370.3 GRE
• Indiana’s academic standards. Ind. Coll. R 379.2 IND, Spanish Lang. R 379.2 IND
• Learning disabilities sourcebook. R 371.926 LEA
• Patterson’s American education. R 373 PAT
• Patterson’s elementary education. R 372 PAT
• Peterson’s private secondary schools. R 373.222 PET

MAGAZINES

• Education digest
• Homeschooling today

INTERNET RESOURCES

• Goshen Community Schools
• Bethany Christian Schools
• St. John’s Catholic School
• Indiana Department of Education
• Educator’s Reference Desk: Resource Guides
• ERIC: Education Resources Information Center
• The VincentCurtis Educational Register – the oldest free guide to private independent schools, summer schools, and summer camps

LA EDUCACIÓN EN ESPAÑOL / EDUCATION IN SPANISH

• Ayude a sus hijos a tener éxito en la escuela. Spanish Lang. 371.829 DAB
• Estimula a tu bebe. Spanish Lang. 649.122 DOD
• Padres brillantes, maestros fascinantes: no hay jovenes dificiles, sino una educación inadecuada. Spanish Lang. 370.1 CUR