The Education Next Book Club features in-depth interviews by 
Mike Petrilli with authors of new and classic books about education.
 Chester E. Finn, Jr. and Brandon L. Wright
Chester E. Finn, Jr. and Brandon L. Wright
Failing our Brightest Kids: The Global Challenge of Educating High-Ability Students
 
 Dale Russakoff
Dale Russakoff
The Prize: Who’s in Charge of America’s Schools?
 

Greg Toppo
The Game Believes In You 

Paul Hill and Ashley Jochim
A Democratic Constitution for Public Education 

Laurence Steinberg
Age of Opportunity 

Dana Goldstein
The Teacher Wars 

Elizabeth Green
Building a Better Teacher 

Richard Whitmire
On the Rocketship: How Top Charter Schools Are Pushing the Envelope 

Sam Chaltain
Our School: Searching for Community in the Era of Choice 

Eric Hanushek, Paul E. Peterson, and Ludger Woessmann
Endangering Prosperity: A Global View of the American School 

Richard Colvin
Tilting at Windmills 

Sarah Carr
Hope Against Hope: Three Schools, One City, and the Struggle to Educate America’s Children 

Michelle Rhee
Radical: Fighting to Put Students First 

Tony Wagner
Creating Innovators 

Andy Smarick
The Urban School Systems of the Future 

David Cohen
Teaching and its Predicaments 

Nathan Levenson
Smarter Budgets, Smarter Schools 

Paul Tough
How Children Succeed 

Clayton Christensen, Michael Horn, and Curtis W. Johnson
Disrupting Class 
 Diane Ravitch
Diane Ravitch
The Death and Life of the Great American School System
 
 Paul Tough
Paul Tough
Whatever It Takes
 
 Checker E. Finn Jr.
Checker E. Finn Jr.
Troublemaker: A Personal History of School Reform since Sputnik
 
 Paul E. Peterson
Paul E. Peterson
Saving Schools: From Horace Mann to Virtual Learning
 
 Peg Tyre
Peg Tyre
The Good School
 
 Frederick M. Hess
Frederick M. Hess
The Same Thing Over and Over: How School Reformers Get Stuck in Yesterday’s Ideas
 
 Richard Kahlenberg
Richard Kahlenberg
Tough Liberal: Albert Shanker and the Battles Over Schools, Unions, Race, and Democracy
 
 Gene Maeroff
Gene Maeroff
School Boards in America: A Flawed Exercise in Democracy
 
 Jay Mathews
Jay Mathews
Work Hard. Be Nice.: How Two Inspired Teachers Created the Most Promising Schools in America
 
 John Merrow
John Merrow
The Influence of Teachers: Reflections on Teaching and Leadership
 
 Terry Moe
Terry Moe
Special Interest: Teachers Unions and America’s Public Schools
 
 Alexander Russo
Alexander Russo
Stray Dogs, Saints, and Saviors; Fighting for the Soul of America’s Toughest High School
 
 David Whitman
David Whitman
Sweating the Small Stuff: Inner-City Schools and the New Paternalism
 
 Richard Whitmire
Richard Whitmire
The Bee Eater: Michelle Rhee Takes on the Nation’s Worst School District
 
 Daniel Willingham
Daniel Willingham
Why Don’t Students Like School: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for The Classroom