We recently asked community leaders what reading materials they recommend to better understand and stay abreast of education issues. Here are a few of the responses that we received. For more information on any of these recommendations or to make a few of your own, feel free to contact KidsOhio.org.

Josh Edelman, Executive Officer, Office of New Schools: The Marshall Memo put out by Kim Marshall.

David Ferrero, Senior Program Officer, Education, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: Distribution lists for the Public Education Network, Newsblast, and the Fordham Gadfly and a wide variety books: Getting it Wrong from the Beginning by Kieran Egan; Struggle for the American Curriculum by Herbert Kliebard; Philosophical and Ideological Voices in Education by Gerald Gutek; Another Planet by Elinor Burkett; Brief Intervals of Horrible Sanity by Elizabeth Gold; Class and Schools: Using Social, Economic, and Educational Reform to Close the Black-White Achievement Gap by Richard Rothstein; School Choice: The Moral Debate edited by Alan Wolfe; Diversity and Distrust by Stephen Macedo; Visions of Schooling by Rosemary Salamone; Why Schools Matter: A Cross-National Comparison of Curriculum and Learning by William Schmidt; and College Knowledge by David Connelly.

Susan Guance, Chair, Clintonville Commission Education Committee: The articles we [KidsOhio.org] send.

Fred Ransier, Partner, Vorys, Sater, Seymour & Pease, KidsOhio.org Board member: The Chronicle for Higher Education and Black Issues in Higher Education.

Carter Stewart, Vorys, Sater, Seymour & Pease, KIPP: Central Ohio Board member:  Education Week and The Chronicle for Higher Education.

Bill Wendling, President, Wendling Communications: In addition to various research-based texts, Ohio’s daily newspapers, Education Week, New York Times, Washington Post. Web sites of the Education Trust, Public Education Network, and Phi Delta Kappan.