required book:
William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (Arden Third Series, or Oxford)
recommended books:
Kenneth Koch, Rose, Where Did You Get That Red?
Kenneth Koch, Wishes, Lies, and Dreams: Teaching Children to Write Poetry
John Holt, How Children Fail
Martha C. Nussbaum, Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education
Daniel T. Willingham, Why Don’t Students Like School? A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom
Daniel T. Willingham, When Can You Trust the Experts? How to Tell Good Science From Bad in Education
Daniel T. Willingham, The Reading Mind: A Cognitive Approach to Understanding How the Mind Reads
E.D. Hirsch, The Schools We Need and Why We Don’t Have Them
E.D. Hirsch, Jr., Why Knowledge Matters: Rescuing Our Children from Failed Educational Theories
E.D. Hirsch, Jr., The Knowledge Deficit: Closing the Shocking Education Gap for American Children
E.D. Hirsch, Jr. and John Holdren, editors, What Your Kindergartener Needs to Know: Preparing Your Child for a Lifetime of Learning
E.D. Hirsch, Jr., editor, What Your First (Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth) Grader Needs to Know: Fundamentals of a Good First- (Second-, Third-, Fourth-, Fifth-, Sixth-) Grade Education
Diane Ravitch, Left Back: A Century of Failed School Reforms
Diane Ravitch, The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn
Diane Ravitch, The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education
Jonathan Kozol, On Being a Teacher
Jonathan Kozol, Savage Inequalities: Children in Americas Schools
Bill Watterson, Exploring Calvin and Hobbes: An Exhibition Catalogue
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