Kevin Killion has a similar list of reading materials available at http://www.illinoisloop.org/read.html. Reviews of the books as well as links to Amazon.com are provided.

Educational Entrepreneurship

Frederick M. Hess

Harvard Education Press, 2006

Available at: Harvard Education Press

Liberty & Learning: Milton Friedman's Voucher Idea at Fifty

Robert C. Enlow, Lenore T. Ealy, editors

Washington, D.C.: Cato Institute, 2006

Available at: Cato Institute

Tough Love for Schools: Essays on Competition, Accountability, and Excellence

Frederick M. Hess

AEI Press

Washington D.C., 2006

Available at: Amazon.com

Education Myths

Jay P. Greene
Foreword by James Q. Wilson
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, INC.

Lanham, MD, 2005 

Public Schools, Public Menace: How Public Schools Lie to Parents and Betray Our Children

Testing Student Learning, Evaluating Teaching Effectiveness

The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn

Battling Corruption in America's Public Schools

Lydia G. Segal

Foreward by James B. Jacobs

Northeastern Press, 2003

Breaking Free: Public School Lessons and the Imperative of School Choice

Sol Stern

Encounter Books

San Franciso, CA, 2003

Core Virtues: A Literature-Based Program in Character Education

Education and Capitalism:  How Overcoming Our Fear of Markets and Economics Can Improve America’s Schools

Herbert J. Walberg, PhD, and Joseph L. Bast

Hoover Institution Press

Engaging Minds: Motivation and Learning in America's Schools

Let’s Put Parents Back in Charge!

Joseph L. Bast and Herbert J. Walberg, PhD

The Heartland Institute

Liberation's Children: Parents and Kids in Postmodern Age

Making Sense of Research: What's Good, What's Not, and How To Tell the Difference

Public Education as a Business

Voucher Lessons From Sweden: Socialist embrace of free market brings positive outcomes

Robert Holland

School Reform News: Heartland Institute

The War Against Excellence: The Rising Tide of Mediocrity in America's Middle Schools

Cheri Pierson Yecke

Praeger Publishers, 2003

Available at: Amazon.com

Who's Teaching Your Children: Why the Teacher Crisis is Worse Than You Think

Vivian Troen, Katherine C. Boles

Yale University Press

London, England, 2003

Available at: Amazon.com

The Worm in the Apple

How the Teacher Unions Are Destroying American Education

Class Warfare: Besieged Schools, Bewildered Parents, Betrayed Kids and the Attack on Excellence

J. Martin Rochester

Encounter Books

San Francisco, CA, 2002

Getting it Wrong from the Beginning: Our Progressivist Inheritance from Herbert Spencer, John Dewey, and Jean Piaget

The Myth of the Common School

School Choice Works!  The Case of Sweden

You're a Teacher... So Act Like One!

A Primer on America’s Schools

Edited by Terry M. Moe

Hoover Institute Press

Schools, Vouchers, and the American Public

Terry M. Moe

The Brookings Institution

The Academic Achievement Challenge: What Really Works in the Classroom?

Charter Schools in Action: Renewing Public Education

It Takes a City:

Getting Serious about Urban School Reform

Paul T. Hill, Christine Campbell, James Harvey

Brookings Institution Press, Washington, D.C., 2000

Left Back: A Century of Battles over School Reform

Diane Revitch

Touchstone

New York, NY, 2000

Available at: Amazon.com

Parents and Schools: The 150-Year Struggle for Control in American Education

William Cutler

The University of Chicago Press

The Teacher Unions: How They Sabotage Educational Reform and Why

Dr. Myron Lieberman

Encounter Books

Ten Traits of Highly Successful Schools

Elaine K. McEwan

Harold Shaw Publishers

Colorado Springs, CO, 2000

Available at: Amazon.com

Understanding the Teacher Union Contract: A Citizen’s Handbook

Dr. Myron Lieberman

Education Policy Institute, 2000

The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men

What's at Stake in the K-12 Standards Wars: A Primer for Educational Policy Makers

The Conspiracy of Ignorance: The Failure of American Public Schools

The Educated Child: A Parent's Guide from Preschool Through Grade Eight

William J. Bennett, Jr., Chester E. Finn, Jr., John T. E. Cribb

Free Press

New York, NY, 1999

Available at: Amazon.com

 

 

Market Education: The Unknown History

Andrew J. Coulson

Transaction Publishers

Somerset, NJ, 1999

Available at: Amazon.com

 

New Schools for a New Century

Power Grab: The National Education Association’s Betrayal of our Children

G. Gregory Moo, Ph.D.

Regnery Publishing Company

Ready or Not: Why Treating Children as Small Adults Endangers Their Future - and Ours

Angry Parents, Failing Schools: What's Wrong With the Public Schools & What You Can Do About It

Cloning of the American Mind: Eradicating Morality through Education

Saving Childhood: Protecting Our Children from the National Assault on Innocence

Books to Build on: A Grade-by-Grade Resource Guide for Parents and Teachers

Dumbing Down: Essays on the Strip Mining of American Culture

The Schools We Need and Why We Don’t Have Them

E.D. Hirsch, Jr.

Anchor Books, Doubleday

New York, NY, 1996

Available at: Amazon.com

Why Teams Don't Work: What Went Wrong & How to Make It Right

Dumbing Down Our Kids: Why American Children Feel Good About Themselves but Can't Read, Write, or Add

Government Nannies

Valuing Useless Knowledge: An Anthropological Inquiry into the Meaning of Life

Inside American Education

The Decline, The Deception, The Dogmas

Thomas Sowell

The Free Press

Politics Markets & Schools

Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know

True Private Choice: A Practical Guide to

School Choice after Zelman v. Simmons-Harris

Marie Gryphon

Cato Institute

Contract for Failure:

The Impact of Teacher Union Contracts on the Quality of California Schools

Pamela A. Riley

Pacific Research Institute’s Center for School Reform

Why Charter Schools?  The Princeton Story

A Report by the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation

Available at: Thomas B. Fordham Foundation