The following books:

  • Arends, R. I. (1996). Classroom Instruction and Management. Boston: McGraw Hill.
  • Costa, A.L., & Kallick, B. (2014). Dispositions: Reframing Teaching and Learning. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin.
  • Delpit, L. (1995/2006). Other People’s Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom. New York: The New Press.
  • Hooks, B. (1994). Teaching to Transgress: Education As the Practice of Freedom. New York: Routledge. Horton, M., & Freire, P. (1990). We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change. Philadelphia: Temple University.
  • MacLeod, J. (2008). Ain’t No Makin’ It: Aspirations and Attainment in Low-income Neighborhoods. (3rd  Ed.). Boulder, CO: Westview.
  • Milner IV, H.R. (2010). Start Where You Are, But Don’t Stay There: Understanding Diversity, Opportunity Gaps, and Teaching in Today’s Classrooms. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University.
  • Rury, J.L. (2012). Education and Social Changes: Contours in the History of American Schooling. (4th ed.) New York: Routledge.
  • Zull, J.E. (2002). The art of changing the brain : enriching teaching by exploring the biology of learning (1st ed..). Sterling, Va: Stylus Publishing.
  • Recommended: McLaren, P. (2006). Life in Schools: An Introduction to Critical Pedagogy in the Foundations of Education. (5th Edition). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson. NOTE: The college bookstore returns books by Week 6 to publishers/distributors.

A series of articles from the professional literature on learning and and the history and foundations of schooling