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Squeezing the Last Words out of Summer

Peter Meyer
8.21.2010

The Ohio Gadfly was ahead of the curve with its summer reading list.? And yesterday Liam told us what Diane Ravitch was reading.? For those of you still trying to?get a little more summer in before back to school strikes and may be looking for some beach-blanket (or deep woods) books to sustain the vacationing mind, I'd recommend the National Journal's Expert Blogs rendition of summer reading.

See what thirteen of your favorite (or not) education reformers are reading (or say they want to read): Andy Rotherham, Alex Johnston, Ellen Winn, Deborah McGriff, Kate Walsh, Rick Hess, Richard Lee Colvin, Monty Neill, Anne Bryant, Steve Peha, Alexander Russo, Ravitch, and Tom Vander Ark. Their recommendations include, The World is Open, Small Change: Why Business Won't Save the World, The Flat World, The Corner, Linchpin, Schools Cannot Do It Alone, Bringing School Reform to Scale?.

I don't have a Kindle yet (Steve Peha does and says he's reading more), but would be curious how many educators are using them.? And how do they do in the rain and the sand?

?Peter Meyer

Tags: Alexander Russo Diane Ravitch National Journal

Peter Meyer is an adjunct fellow with the Thomas B. Fordham Institute. Meyer is also a former News Editor of Life magazine and the author of numerous nonfiction books, including the critically acclaimed The Yale Murder (Empire Books, 1982; Berkley Books, 1983) and Death of Innocence (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1985; Berkley Books, 1986). Over the course of his three-decade journalism career Meyer, who…

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