Further Reading List
• Don’t forget to look up the word heterodoxy and then follow the meaning during the rest of your life.
• The Mad Teacher panacea. Let’s settle this once and for all—right here, right now. Become an autodidact and read/review/reflect on the following: “What The Teacher is—is more important than what s/he teaches” (Karl Menninger).
• The Quality School Teacher and Every Student Can Succeed by William Glasser (wglasser.com).
• Heart of a Teacher by Paula J. Fox.
• Wounded by School: Recapturing the Joy in Learning and Standing Up to Old School Culture by Kirsten Olson.
• Endangered Minds: Why Children Don’t Think and What We Can Do About It by Jane M. Healy.
• The Inspired Teacher: How to Know One, Grow One, or Be One by Carol Frederick Steele.
• The American Public School Teacher: Past, Present, and Future by Darrel Drury and Justin Baer.
• Any publication from RethinkingSchools.org and journal subscription.
• Any publication from AfricanAmericanImages.com.
• Any publication from ASCD.org professional development DVDs.
• Any publication from ResponsiveClassroom.org.
• Any publication from MasterTeacher.com.
• Any publication from TeachersCollege/tcpress.com.
• Black Students. Middle Class Teachers by Jawanza Kunjufu.
• Challenging Assumptions in Education: From Institutionalized Education to a Learning Society by Wendy Priesnitz (The Alternate Press).
• In Their Own Way: Discovering and Encouraging Your Child’s Personal Learning Style by Thomas Armstrong.
• The Myth of the A.D.D. Child: 50 Ways to Improve Your Child’s Behavior and Attention Span without Drugs, Labels, or Coercion by Thomas Armstrong.
• Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling by John Taylor Gatto.
• Motivating Black Males to Achieve in School and in Life by Baruti Kafele.
• Black Teachers on Teaching by Michele Foster.
• Teaching with Poverty in Mind by Eric Jensen.
• 50 Ways to Close the Achievement Gap (3rd Ed.) by Downey, et al.
• Smart Parenting for African Americans: Helping Your Kids Thrive in a Difficult World by Jeffrey Gardere.
• Young, Gifted and Black by Michelle Foster.
• Dead Poets Society (movie featuring Robin Williams).
• Teaching Tolerance (Tolerance.org).
• TheGreatCourses.com.
• “The Intelligent Brain” by Richard J. Haier (TheGreatCourses.com/course/642).
• Closing the Racial Academic Achievement Gap by Matthew Lynch.
• Raising Black Students’ Achievement through Culturally Responsive Teaching by Johnnie McKinley (AlfieKohn.org).
• The Homework Myth: Why Our Children Are Getting Too Much of a Bad Thing by Alfie Kohn.
• Feel-Bad Education: And Other Contrarian Essays on Children and Schooling by Alfie Kohn.
• The End of Homework: How Homework Disrupts Families, Overburdens Children, and Limits Learning by Etta Kralovec and John Buell.
• What Happened to Recess and Why Are Our Children Struggling in Kindergarten? by Susan Ohanian.
• One Size Fits Few by Susan Ohanian.
• What Successful Teachers Do: 101 Research-Based Classroom Strategies for New and Veteran Teachers by Neal A. Glasgow.
• The Don’t Sweat Guide For Teachers; Cutting Through The Clutter So that Every Day Counts by Richard Carlson.
• Smart Kids, Bad Schools: 38 Ways to Save America’s Future by Brian Crosby.
• Braking Free from Myths About Teaching and Learning Innovation As An Engine for Student Success by Allison Zmuda.
• Wasting Minds: Why Our Education System Is Failing and What We Can Do About It by Ronald A. Wolk.
• Motivating Students Who Don’t Care: Successful Techniques for Educators by Allen N. Mendler.
• Why Schools Fail by Bruce Goldberg.
• The Queen of Education: Rules for Making School Work by LouAnne Johnson.
• The Hurried Child by David Elkind.
• We Can’t Teach What We Don’t Know: White Teachers, Multiracial Schools (2nd Ed.) by Gary Howard.
• Raising Race Questions: Whiteness and Inquiry in Education by Ali Michael.
• The Culturally Inclusive Educator: Preparing for a Multicultural World by Dena Samuels.
• Why Race and Culture Matter in Schools: Closing the Achievement Gap in America’s Classrooms by Tyrone E. Howard.
• Bad Teachers: How Blaming Teachers Distorts the Bigger Picture by Kevin K. Kumashiro.
• A Handbook for Teachers of African American Children by Baruti Kafele.
• “The Futurist, Forecasts, Trends and Ideas About the Future Educations Holy Grail: Personalized Learning” by Maria H. Andersen, wfs.org (Jan/Feb 2011).
• Frames of Mind and Multiple Intelligences by Howard Gardner.
• The Scientist in the Crib: Minds, Brains, and How Children Learn by Alison Gopnik.
• The Teacher Wars: A History of America’s Most Embattled Profession by Dana Goldstein.
• Deschooling Society by Ivan Illich.
• The Teenage Liberation Handbook by Grace Llewellyn.
• Get Over It! Education Reform Is Dead. Now What? by Caren Black.
• Beyond the Classroom: Why School Reform Has Failed and What Parents Need To Do by Laurence Steinberg.
• I Hate School: How to Help Your Child Love Learning by Cynthia Wrich Tobias.
• The Death of Common Sense of Our Schools and What You Can Do About It by Jim Grant.
• Inspirational Quotes Notes and Anecdotes That Honor Teachers and Teaching by Robert D. Ramsey.
• National Professional Resources (NPRinc.com).
• High Schools, Race, and America’s Future: What Students Can Teach Us About Morality, Diversity, and Community by Lawrence Blum.
Not being a polymath teacher, Hancock communicates his vision, experiences, opinions, philosophy, perceptions, and beliefs about teaching, learning, and education issues in society with vibrant energy, passion, and verve.
Satire, parody, and caricatures are also included.
Anyone interested in the state of education will want to read and think (reflect) about Hancock’s eclectic pontifications and jeremiads in reference to education policies, practices, and procedures.
Hancock’s moniker is the Don Quixote of Educational Philosophy.
Hancock after retirement (2003) conducts/presents professional development seminars at local colleges / school districts on the achievement gap and is an education consultant / child advocate. See flyer/brochure on page ___.
He had a professional educator career from 1968 to 2003.
You Can Handle Them All—Strategies to Reduce/Narrow the Academic Achievement Gap. Problems, Causes, Solutions: Moving from Research to Practice
David Hancock, MA
Dates:
August 5 and 6, 2014
(Attendance is required at all sessions)
Times:
9:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.
Location:
NDC Administration Building
(Room signs will be posted)
There is no single achievement gap. However, there are many kinds of gaps (i.e., attitude, racial, teacher quality, poverty, environment, etc.) The achievement gap has been a long-standing issue in US public education. To date, no programs or approaches have erased it, although some actions have shown promise to conceptualize the multidimensional nature of the gap issue and help define the means by which educators can begin to implement
