Books:
The School Leaders Our Children Deserve: Seven Keys to Equity, Social Justice, and School Reform (Theoharis, 2009) - helpful for P-12 school principals to understand the complexities of education unique to their site.
Modern Education Finance and Policy (Guthrie et al., 2007) - good information about budgets regarding cost analysis.
The Flat World and Education (Darling-Hammond, 2010) - breaks down national schooling and includes in-depth analysis of external factors that contribute to education over time.
School Reform From the Inside Out (Elmore, 2007) - analyzes change processes in U.S. schools.
Leading in a Culture of Change (Fullan, 2001) - provides steps for how change can take place.
Improbable Scholars: The Rebirth of a Great American School System and a Strategy for America's Schools (Kirp, 2013) - somewhat of a case study of two schools in New Jersey.
Constructing Grounded Theory (Charmaz, 2014) - the best book about how to understand and carry through qualitative research using initial coding.
Multiplication is for White People: Raising Expectations for Other People's Children (Delpit, 2012) - excellent narrative with descriptive examples about how to have high expectations and be a warm demander.
How to Design & Evaluate Research in Education (Hyun et al., 2015) - great examples of how to conduct qualitative and quantitative research.
Reason & Rigor: How Conceptual Frameworks Guide Research (Ravitch & Riggan, 2017) - conceptual and theoretical frameworks defined!
American Education (Spring, 2018) - historical account of U.S. schooling.
Articles:
From the achievement gap to the education debt: Understanding achievement in U.S. schools (Ladson-Billings, 2006) - analysis of the achievement gap and why it exists.
Toward a theory of culturally relevant pedagogy (Ladson-Billings, 1995) - seminole piece about social justice education.
To study is a revolutionary duty (Duncan-Andrade, 2007) - a moving letter to Paulo Friere with correspondences to teaching and learning.
Creating mathematical futures through an equitably teaching approach: The case of Railside School (Boaler & Staples, 2008) - quantitative research analysis of mathematics instructional practices.
