Book Notes

Contingent Faculty and the Remaking of Higher Education: A Labor History
Jane Choi
Laboratories of Learning: Social Movements, Education and Knowledge-Making in the Global South
Woohee Kim
Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom
Catherine E. Pitcher
Reframing the Everyday in Early Childhood Pedagogy: Conceptualising the Mundane, edited by Casey Y. Myers, Kylie Smith, Rochelle L. Hostler, and Marek Tesar
Ron Grady
Our Hidden Conversations: What Americans Really Think About Race and Identity, by Michele Norris
Phoebe A. Grant-Robinson
Leading with Heart and Soul: 30 Inspiring Lessons of Faith, Learning, and Leadership for Educators, by Irvin L. Scott
Pennie Gregory
Translanguaging, Coloniality and Decolonial Cracks: Bilingual Science Learning in South Africa, by Robyn Tyler
Maya Alkateb-Chami
False Starts: The Segregated Lives of Preschoolers, by Casey Stockstill
Jeannette Garcia Coppersmith
Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal, by Bettina L. Love
Kemeyawi Q. Wahpepah
Helping Students Become Powerful Mathematical Thinkers: Case Studies of Teaching for Robust Understanding, by Alan Schoenfeld, Heather Fink, Sandra Zuñiga-Ruiz, Siqi Huang, Xinyu Wei, and Brantina Chirinda
Jeannette Garcia Coppersmith
The Career Arts: Making the Most of College, Credentials, and Connections, by Ben Wildavsky
Caroline Tucker
Seeing Others: How Recognition Works—and How It Can Heal a Divided World, by Michèle Lamont
Kemeyawi Q. Wahpepah
Language and Education in Africa: A Fresh Approach to the Debates on Language, Education, and Cultural Identity, by Bert van Pinxteren
Maya Alkateb-Chami
A Dream Defaulted: The Student Loan Crisis Among Black Borrowers, by Jason N. Houle and Fenaba R. Addo
Megan L. Bogia
Campus Economics: How Economic Thinking Can Help Improve College and University Decisions, by Sandy Baum and Michael McPherson
Caroline Tucker
Making Bureaucracy Work: Norms, Education and Public Service Delivery in Rural India, by Akshay Mangla
Abhinav Ghosh
Race, Class, Parenting and Children’s Leisure: Children’s Leisurescapes and Parenting in Middle-Class British Indian Families, by Utsa Mukherjee
Swati Puri
Nonprofit Neighborhoods: An Urban History of Inequality and the American State, by Claire Dunning
Abbie Cohen
English Linguistic Imperialism from Below: Moral Aspiration and Social Mobility
Swati Puri
Identity Capitalists: The Powerful Insiders Who Exploit Diversity to Maintain Inequality
Mekka A. Smith
Spare the Rod: Punishment and the Moral Community of Schools
Dustin Webster
Cancel Wars: How Universities Can Foster Free Speech, Promote Inclusion, and Renew Democracy, by Sigal R. Ben-Porath
Megan L. Bogia
Algorithms of Education: How Datafication and Artificial Intelligence Shape Policy, by Kalervo N. Gulson, Sam Sellar, and P. Taylor Webb
Abhinav Ghosh
Right Where We Belong: How Refugee Teachers and Students Are Changing the Future of Education, by Sarah Dryden-Peterson
Santiago Pulido-Gómez
Thinking Like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy
Abigail Orrick
Race at the Top: Asian Americans and Whites in Pursuit of the American Dream in Suburban Schools
Swati Puri
You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience
Mekka A. Smith
Challenges to Academic Freedom
Eric Torres
The Doctoral Journey as an Emotional, Embodied, Political Experience: Stories from the Field
Alysha Banerji
Memory in the Mekong: Regional Identity, Schools, and Politics in Southeast Asia
Abhinav Ghosh
Willful Defiance: The Movement to Dismantle the School-to-Prison Pipeline
Alyssa Napier
Queer Data: Using Gender, Sex and Sexuality Data for Action
Santiago Pulido-Gómez
All the White Friends I Couldn’t Keep: Hope—and Hard Pills to Swallow—About Fighting for Black Lives
Mekka A. Smith
Civic Education in the Age of Mass Migration: Implications for Theory and Practice
Alysha Banerji
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
Abigail Orrick
Minds Wide Shut: How the New Fundamentalisms Divide Us
Eric Torres
An African American Dilemma: A History of School Integration and Civil Rights in the North
Alyssa Napier
The PhD Parenthood Trap: Caught Between Work and Family in Academia
Tara P. Nicola
Scripting the Moves: Culture and Control in a “No-Excuses” Charter chool
Abigail Orrick
Voicing Code in STEM: A Dialogical Imagination
Paulina Haduong
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
Maya Holden Cohen
When Colleges Close: Leading in a Time of Crisis
Tara P. Nicola
Border Thinking: Latinx Youth Decolonizing Citizenship
Alysha Banerji
Educating for Durable Solutions: Histories of Schooling in Kenya’s Dadaab and Kakuma Refugee Camps
Orelia Jonathan
Schooling for Critical Consciousness: Engaging Black and Latinx Youth in Analyzing, Navigating, and Challenging Racial Injustice
Anna L. Kirby
Charter School City: What the End of Traditional Public Schools in New Orleans Means for American Education
Ellis E. Reid V
The Last Negroes at Harvard: The Class of 1963 and the 18 Young Men Who Changed Harvard Forever
Shandra M. Jones
The Young Crusaders: The Untold Story of the Children and Teenagers Who Galvanized the Civil Rights Movement
Alyssa Napier
Common-Sense Evidence: The Education Leader’s Guide to Using Data and Research
Tara P. Nicola
Designing Constructionist Futures: The Art, Theory, and Practice of Learning Designs
Paulina Haduong
The Education Trap
Eric Torres
Unmuted: Conversations on Prejudice, Oppression, and Social Justice
Maya Holden Cohen
Critical Thinking
Thomas Kelley-Kemple
The Campus Color Line: College Presidents and the Struggle for Black Freedom
Lucian Bessmer
A Field Guide to Grad School: Uncovering the Hidden Curriculum
Becca Spindel Bassett
Chasing Success and Confronting Failure in American Public Schools
Maya Holden Cohen
If Schools Didn’t Exist: A Study in the Sociology of Schools
Ellis E. Reid V
Educating Students to Improve the World
Orelia Jonathan
Educated: A Memoir
Raquel L. Jimenez
Campus Counterspaces: Black and Latinx Students’ Search for Community at Historically White Universities
Becca Spindel Bassett
American Higher Education Since World War II: A History
Lucian Bessmer
Talking About Leaving Revisited: Persistence, Relocation, and Loss in Undergraduate STEM Education
Isaura J. Gallegos
Moving Up Without Losing Your Way: The Ethical Costs of Upward Mobility
Tatiana Geron
The Ocean in the School: Pacific Islander Students Transforming Their University
Paulina Haduong
Progressive Dystopia: Abolition, Antiblackness, and Schooling in San Francisco
Rebecca Horwitz-Willis
Radical Hope: A Teaching Manifesto
Shandra M. Jones
Why Trust Science?
Lucian Bessmer
International Aid to Education: Power Dynamics in an Era of Partnership
Bibi-Zuhra Faizi
Youth and the National Narrative: Education, Terrorism and the Security State in Pakistan
Orelia Jonathan
How the Other Half Learns: Equality, Excellence, and the Battle over School Choice
Jeremy T. Murphy
Making Up Our Mind: What School Choice Is Really About
Ellis E. Reid V
Suddenly Diverse: How School Districts Manage Race and Inequality
So Yeon Shin
Girlhood in the Borderlands: Mexican Teens Caught in the Crossroads of Migration
Sarah Bruhn
The Heart of the Matter: Transforming Our School Through Student Leadership: We Make the Rules
Tatiana Geron
Absent from School: Understanding and Addressing Student Absenteeism
Jeremy T. Murphy
Where Teachers Thrive: Organizing Schools for Success
Thomas Kelley-Kemple
Redefining Success in America: A New Theory of Happiness and Human Development
So Yeon Shin
The Dark Fantastic: Race and Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games
Tatiana Geron
How Girls Achieve
Bibi-Zuhra Faizi
Engaging Boys in Active Literacy: Evidence and Practice
So Yeon Shin
The Educated Underclass: Students and the Promise of Social Mobility: The Adjunct Underclass: How America’s Colleges Betrayed Their Faculty, Their Students, and Their Mission
Becca Spindel Bassett
Borders of Belonging: Struggle and Solidarity in Mixed-Status Immigrant Families
Sarah Bruhn
Under Pressure: Confronting the Epidemic of Stress and Anxiety in Girls
Isaura J. Gallegos
Awakening Democracy Through Public Work: Pedagogies of Empowerment
Liu Jiang
The Privileged Poor: How Elite Universities Are Failing Disadvantaged Students
Thomas Kelley-Kemple
The Human Side of Changing Education: How to Lead Change with Clarity, Conviction, and Courage
André S. Morgan
Land-Grant Universities for the Future: Higher Education for the Public Good
Isaura J. Gallegos
Classroom Cultures: Equitable Schooling for Racially Diverse Youth
Sibylla Leon Guerrero
Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago’s South Side
Raquel L. Jimenez
Data and Teaching: Moving Beyond Magical Thinking to Effective Practice
Jeremy T. Murphy
Citizens but Not Americans: Race and Belonging Among Latino Millennials
Sarah Bruhn
Shifting Boundaries: Immigrant Youth Negotiating National, State, and Small-Town Politics
Sarah A. Rendón García
The Good Child: Moral Development in a Chinese Preschool
Liu Jiang
Mapping and Monitoring Bullying and Violence: Building a Safe School Climate
André S. Morgan
Uneasy Peace: The Great Crime Decline, the Renewal of City Life, and the Next War on Violence
Krista Goldstine-Cole
When Grit Isn’t Enough: A High School Principal Examines How Poverty and Inequality Thwart the College-for-All Promise
Raquel L. Jimenez
The Experience of Neoliberal Education
Sibylla Leon Guerrero
The Newcomers: Finding Refuge, Friendship, and Hope in an American Classroom
Celia Reddick
Negotiating Opportunities: How the Middle Class Secures Advantages in School
Nadirah Farah Foley
“Why We Drop Out”: Understanding and Disrupting Student Pathways to Leaving School
André S. Morgan
Mi Padre: Mexican Immigrant Fathers and Their Children’s Education
Sarah A. Rendón García
Teaching Controversial Issues: The Case for Critical Thinking and Moral Commitment in the Classroom
Simone A. Fried
Learning as Development: Rethinking International Education in a Changing World
Celia Reddick
Growing Each Other Up: When Our Children Become Our Teachers
Sarah A. Rendón García
Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy
Nadirah Farah Foley
Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
Stuti Shukla
Achieving Coherence in District Improvement: Managing the Relationship Between the Central Office and Schools
Cortney Evans
The Privatization of Education: A Political Economy of Global Education Reform
Simone A. Fried
Liberating Minds: The Case for College in Prison
Celia Reddick
Continuity in Children’s Worlds: Choices and Consequences for Early Childhood Settings
E. B. O’Donnell
An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization
Krista Goldstine-Colewd
Data Literacy for Educators: Making It Count in Teacher Preparation and Practice
J. B.
Transforming the Academy: Faculty Perspectives on Diversity and Pedagogy
L. Y.
Miseducation: A History of Ignorance-Making in America and Abroad
S.A. F.
Tell Me So I Can Hear You: A Developmental Approach to Feedback for Educators
S. S.
Educating the Chinese Individual: Life in a Rural Boarding School
S. Z.
College Pride, Native Pride: A Portrait of a Culturally Grounded Precollege Access Program for American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian Students
Adrienne J. Keene
(Un)Learning Disability: Recognizing and Changing Restrictive Views of Student Ability
J.W. G.
Learning to Improve: How America’s Schools Can Get Better at Getting Better
M. Y.
How Did You Get Here? Students with Disabilities and Their Journeys to Harvard
E. B.O.
How to Innovate: The Essential Guide for Fearless School Leaders
R. B.L.
Inspiring Teaching: Preparing Teachers to Succeed in Mission-Driven Schools
V. M.T.
Everyday Illegal: When Policies Undermine Immigrant Families
A. C.
Our School: Searching for Community in the Era of Choice
T. E.
Laboratory of Learning: HBCU Laboratory Schools and Alabama State College Lab High in the Era of Jim Crow
S. B.L.
The Quest for Mastery: Positive Youth Development Through Out-of-School Programs
D. S.V.
How College Works
A. S.M.
The States of Child Care: Building a Better System
C. J.G.
The Time Is Now: Understanding and Responding to the Black and Latina/o Dropout Crisis in the U.S.
S. C.
Realizing Educational Rights: Advancing School Reform Through Courts and Communities
J. Z.F.
Schooling Hip-hop: Expanding Hip-hop Based Education Across the Curriculum
E. L.E.
Charter Schools and the Corporate Makeover of Public Education: What’s at Stake?
Y. Y.
Global Education Policy and International Development: New Agendas, Issues and Policies
A. M.N.
The Social Neuroscience of Education: Optimizing Attachment and Learning in the Classroom
T. E.
Marketing Schools, Marketing Cities: Who Wins and Who Loses When Schools Become Urban Amenities
J. Z. F.
Beyond Binaries in Education Research
S. B.
Educational Experiences of Hidden Homeless Teenagers Living Doubled-Up
S. B.
The Learner-Directed Classroom: Developing Creative Thinking Skills Through Art
E. P.C.
Critical Aesthetic Pedagogy: Toward a Theory of Self and Social Empowerment
L. A. E.
Hip Hop Genius: Remixing High School Education
P. J. K.
Design and Thinking
E. P. C.
Changing Lives: Gustavo Dudamel, El Sistema, and the Transformative Power of Music
Raquel L. Jimenez
Art Education Beyond the Classroom: Pondering the Outsider and Other Sites of Learning
M. P. S.
Postsecondary Education for American Indian and Alaska Natives: Higher Education for Nation Building and Self-Determination
A. K.
Asian American Education—Identities, Racial Issues, and Languages
N. C.
Financing American Higher Education in the Era of Globalization
J.T. M.
Changing on the Job: Developing Leaders for a Complex World
K.C. Y.
“Multiplication Is for White People”: Raising Expectations for Other People"s Children
N. C.
American Teacher
S.M. D.
Our Difficult Sunlight: A Guide to Poetry, Literacy, and Social Justice in Classroom and Community
C. E.P.
To Teach: The Journey, in Comics
P.J. K.
Waiting for “Superman”
M. N.
Saving Schools: From Horace Mann to Virtual Learning
K. S. C.
Whistling Vivaldi: And Other Clues to How Stereotypes Affect Us
L.M. G.
Crossing the Finish Line: Completing College at America"s Public Universities
K.P. A.
Examining Effective Teacher Leadership: A Case Study Approach
C.E. B.
The Boy on the Beach: Building Community Through Play
J.M. H.
Children of the Gulag
I.A. L.
Our Schools Suck: Students Talk Back to a Segregated Nation on the Failures of Urban Education
K.S. C.