Books for Review [English]

We are currently seeking reviewers for the following list of recently published or soon-to-be published books.

If you wish to submit a review of one of these titles, please visit the submissions page for details concerning our author guidelines and checklist.

If you are the author of a book with a 2024 copyright and your contribution is not on this list, please write to the managing editor at ssmcb@asu.edu so that we can begin to seek a reviewer for your book.

Schools:

Educating for Democracy: The Case for Participatory Budgeting in Schools – Daniel Schugurensky and Tara Bartlett

School Communities of Strength: Strategies for Educating Children Living in Deep Poverty – Peter W. Cookson Jr.

Organizational Betrayal: How Schools Enable Sexual Misconduct and How to Stop It – Charol Shakeshaft

Networks of Trust: The Social Costs of College and What We Can Do about Them – Anthony Simon Laden

The Kid Across the Hall: The Fight for Opportunity in Our Schools – Reid Saaris

Structuring Inequality: How Schooling, Housing, and Tax Policies Shaped Metropolitan Development and Education – Tracy L. Steffes

Glass Ceilings and Ivory Towers: Gender Inequality in the Canadian Academy – Rachael Johnstone, Bessma Romani

Dismantling Disproportionality in Practice: A Guide to Fostering Culturally Responsive Districts and Schools – María G. Hernández, Reed Swier, Hui-Ling Sunshine Malone

The Crucible of Desegregation: The Uncertain Search for Educational Equality – R. Shep Melnick

Transformative Student Voice: Partnering with Young People for Equitable School Improvement - by Shelley Zion, Ben Kirshner and Carlos P. Hipolito-Delgado (for school/district leaders)

Transformative Student Voice for Teachers: A Guide to Classroom Action - Dane Stickney, Ben Kirshner, Carlos P. Hipolito-Delgado and Shelley Zion (for teachers/practitioners)

Education Policy and Politics:

Deliberative Policymaking: Redesigning How We Make Education Policy – Elizabeth Grant

Educational Pluralism and Democracy: How to Handle Indoctrination, Promote Exposure, and Rebuild America’s Schools – Ashley Rogers Berner

The Abundant University: Remaking Higher Education for a Digital World – Michael D. Smith

In the Shadow of the Capitol Dome: Critical Legal Theory and State Level Educational Policymaking – Brian Boggs

Reforming the Reform: Problems of Public Schooling in the American Welfare State – Susan L. Moffitt, Michaela Krug O’Neill, David K. Cohen

The Walls around Opportunity: The Failure of Colorblind Policy for Higher Education – Gary Orfield

Getting Education Right: A Conservative Vision for Improving Early Childhood, K–12, and College – Frederick M. Hess, Michael Q. McShane

Culturally Sustaining Policymaking in Indigenous Communities: Partnering to Promote Lasting Change – Aprille J. Phillips

 Teaching, Learning, Literacy:

Transformative Science Teaching: A Catalyst for Justice and Sustainability – Daniel Morales-Doyle

Teaching from an Ethical Center: Practical Wisdom for Daily Instruction – Cara E. Furman

Single-Case Designs for Applied Research – Craig H. Kennedy

How to Read, Evaluate, and Use Research – Sharon L. Nichols, Paul A. Schutz, Sofia Bahena

The Enduring Classroom: Teaching Then and Now – Larry Cuban

Constructivism and the Metaphysics of Qualitative Research – John Paley

Teaching Israel: Studies of Pedagogy from the Field – Sivan Zakai, Matt Reingold

The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home – Susan Wise Bauer, Jessie Wise

How Do We Learn?: A Scientific Approach to Learning and Teaching – Héctor Ruiz Martín

Principles of Blended Learning: Shared Metacognition and Communities of Inquiry – Norman D. Vaughan, Deborah Dell, Martha Cleveland-Innes, D. Randy Garrison

Accelerating the Literacy Performance of Bilingual Students: Evidence-Based Instruction in Grades K-6 – Georgia Earnest García

Collaborative Assessment for Multilingual Learners and Teachers: Pathways to Partnerships – Margo Gottlieb, Andrea Honigsfeld

Looking beyond Words: Visual Research Methods in Education – Kwok Kuen Tsang

Race, Ethnicity, and Culture in Education:

Discredited: Power, Privilege, and Community College Transfer – Lauren Schudde, Huriya Jabbar

Radical Brown: Keeping the Promise to America's Children – Margaret Beale Spencer, Nancy E. Dowd

The Big Lie About Race in America’s Schools – Royel M. Johnson, Shaun R. Harper

Without Destroying Ourselves: A Century of Native Intellectual Activism for Higher Education – John A. Goodwin

A Worthy Piece of Work; The Untold Story of Madeline Morgan and the Fight for Black History in Schools – Michael Hines

Achieving Equal Educational Opportunity for Students of Color: Disrupting Structural Racism—An American Imperative – Richard R. Valencia

HBCU: The Power of Historically Black Colleges and Universities – Marybeth Gasman, Levon T. Esters

Whiteness in the Ivory Tower: Why Don't We Notice the White Students Sitting Together in the Quad? – Nolan L. Cabrera

Brothers in Grief: The Hidden Toll of Gun Violence on Black Boys and Their Schools – Nora Gross