EDUCATION
ELECTRONIC MEDIA
Inside American Education: The Decline, the Deception, the Dogmas by Thomas Sowell (Audiobook, Kindle)
“Educational Issues,” The Thomas Sowell Reader by Thomas Sowell (Audiobook, Kindle)
“Some School Workers Now Get Unemployment Over the Summer. Here’s How It Works.” Education Week, August 28, 2024, pp. 8–9, by Mark Lieberman available via the EBSCOhost Academic Search Premier database
ESSAYS, ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS
“Educational Issues,” The Thomas Sowell Reader, pp. 335–373, by Thomas Sowell
“Education,” Liberty Versus the Tyranny of Socialism, pp. 1–43, by Walter E. Williams
BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS
Inside American Education: The Decline, the Deception, the Dogmas by Thomas Sowell
Education: Assumptions Versus History by Thomas Sowell
Children of the Boat People: A Study of Educational Success by Nathan Caplan, Marcella H. Choy, and John K. Whitmore
SCHOOLS
ELECTRONIC MEDIA
“The High Cost of Low Educational Performance,” Eric Hanushek and Ludger Woessman at the Hoover Institution (discussion)
“Black Education: Achievements, Myths and Tragedies,” Black Rednecks and White Liberals by Thomas Sowell (Audiobook, Kindle)
Charter Schools and Their Enemies by Thomas Sowell (Audiobook, Kindle)
“‘It’s Not Burger King. You Can’t Have It Your Way,’” New York Post, September 8, 2019, p. 10, by Susan Edelman, available via the Newsbank Access World News database
“America Needs Real School Choice,” Wall Street Journal, November 14, 2023, p. A17, by Roland Fryer, available via the ABI/INFORM Global (ProQuest) database
“Special Education Services,” Late-Talking Children by Stephen Camarata (Audiobook, Kindle)
“Navigating Schools,” Late-Talking Children by Stephen Camarata (Audiobook, Kindle)
A Nation Deceived: How Schools Hold Back America’s Brightest Students by Nicholas Colangelo (Kindle)
“Assumptions versus History in Ethnic Education,” Teachers College Record, Fall 1981, pp. 37–71, by Thomas Sowell, available via the SAGE Complete database
“J.B. Pritzker vs. Catholic Schools,” Wall Street Journal, January 20, 2024, p. A14, available via the ABI/INFORM Global (ProQuest) database
“The Chicago Teachers Union’s Student Army,” Wall Street Journal, March 15, 2024, p. A16, available via the ABI/INFORM Global (ProQuest) database
“Some Question Worth of Woke Kindergarten,” San Francisco Chronicle, February 6, 2024, pp. A1 ff, by Jill Tucker, available via the Newsbank All Titles database
“Success Academy Charter Schools— Interview with Robert Pondiscio,” Robert Pondiscio and Nat Malkus at the American Enterprise Institute (discussion)
“The Child Soldiers of Portland,” City Journal, Spring 2021, by Christopher F. Rufo
“The School-to-Clinic Pipeline,” City Journal, Autumn 2022, by Leor Sapir
“The Real Story Behind Drag Queen Story Hour,” City Journal, Autumn 2022, by Christopher F. Rufo
“New York’s Literacy Flip,” City Journal, Autumn 2023, by Robert Bellafiore, Jr.
ESSAYS, ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS
Inside American Education: The Decline, the Deception, the Dogmas, Chapters 1–4 and pages 247–260 and 288–293, by Thomas Sowell
“Eleven Years at School and Still Illiterate,” The Welfare State We’re In, revised and updated, pp. 151–224, by James Bartholomew
“Educational Issues,” The Thomas Sowell Reader, pp. 335–373, by Thomas Sowell
“Black Education: Achievements, Myths and Tragedies,” Black Rednecks and White Liberals, pp. 203–245, by Thomas Sowell
“Black Education Disaster,” American Contempt for Liberty, pp. 218–220, by Walter E. Williams
“Assumptions versus History in Ethnic Education,” Teachers College Record, Fall 1981, pp. 37–71, by Thomas Sowell
Wealth, Poverty and Politics: An International Perspective, Chapters 3 and 4, by Thomas Sowell
“Children,” Social Justice Fallacies, pp. 89–92, by Thomas Sowell
“J.B. Pritzker vs. Catholic Schools,” Wall Street Journal, January 20, 2024, p. A14
“The Child Soldiers of Portland,” America’s Cultural Revolution, pp. 188–204, by Christopher F. Rufo
“The Child Soldiers of Portland,” City Journal, Spring 2021, pp. 12–23, by Christopher F. Rufo
“The School-to-Clinic Pipeline,” City Journal, Autumn 2022, pp. 42–49, by Leor Sapir
“The Real Story Behind Drag Queen Story Hour,” City Journal, Autumn 2022, pp. 31–41, by Christopher F. Rufo
“The Chicago Teachers Union’s Student Army,” Wall Street Journal, March 15, 2024, p. A16
“Some Question Worth of Woke Kindergarten,” San Francisco Chronicle, February 6, 2024, pp. A1 ff, by Jill Tucker
“America Needs Real School Choice,” Wall Street Journal, November 14, 2023, p. A17, by Roland Fryer
“New York’s Literacy Flip,” City Journal, Autumn 2023, pp. 9–10, by Robert Bellafiore, Jr.
BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS
Education’s Smoking Gun: How Teachers Colleges Have Destroyed Education in America by Reginald G. Damerell
Charter Schools and Their Enemies by Thomas Sowell
No Excuses: Closing the Racial Gap in Learning by Abigail Thernstrom and Stephan Thernstrom
The Moral Disarmament of France: Education, Pacifism and Patriotism, 1914–1940 by Mona L. Siegel
The Social Background of the Italo-American School Child by Leonard Covello, edited by Francesco Cordasco
As a Matter of Fact: The National Charter School Study III 2023 by Margaret E. Raymond, et al., Center for Research on Education Outcomes, Stanford University
COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES
ELECTRONIC MEDIA
“Academic Facts and Fallacies,” Economic Facts and Fallacies, second edition, by Thomas Sowell (Kindle)
Tenured Radicals: How Politics Has Corrupted Our Higher Education, third edition, by Roger Kimball (Kindle)
Inside American Education: The Decline, the Deception, the Dogmas, Chapters 5–9, by Thomas Sowell (Audiobook, Kindle)
“Affirmative Action,” (in Chapter 5) Social Justice Fallacies by Thomas Sowell (Audiobook, Kindle)
Mismatch: How Affirmative Action Hurts Students It’s Intended to Help, and Why Universities Won’t Admit It by Richard H. Sander and Stuart Taylor, Jr. (eTextbook)
“Colleges Fled SATs, Despite Their Utility,” New York Times, January 12, 2024, pp. A1 ff, by David Leonhardt available via the Nexis Uni database
“The New Segregation on Campus,” Wall Street Journal, January 12, 2024, p. A14, available via the ABI/INFORM Global (ProQuest) database
“How ‘Antiracism’ Becomes Antisemitism,” Wall Street Journal, December 30, 2023, p. A11, by Barton Swaim, available via the ABI/INFORM Global (ProQuest) database
“Which Colleges Spent the Most Money on Research?” Chronicle of Higher Education, January 19, 2024, p. 12, by Audrey Williams June, available via the EBSCOhost Academic Search Premier database
“Rescuing Universities from Themselves: A Five-Point Plan,” Boston Globe, December 12, 2023, p. A9, by Steven Pinker, available via the ProQuest Global Newsstream database
ESSAYS, ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS
“Choosing a College,” The Thomas Sowell Reader, pp. 352–353, by Thomas Sowell
“Colleges Fled SATs, Despite Their Utility,” New York Times, January 12, 2024, pp. A1 ff, by David Leonhardt
“The New Segregation on Campus,” Wall Street Journal, January 12, 2024, p. A14
“How ‘Antiracism’ Becomes Antisemitism,” Wall Street Journal, December 30, 2023, p. A11, by Barton Swaim
“Universities Receive Funds from Middle Eastern Nations: Schools Taking Money Accused of Antisemitism,” Washington Times, December 18, 2023, p. 12, by Valerie Richardson
“Which Colleges Spent the Most Money on Research?” Chronicle of Higher Education, January 19, 2024, p. 12, by Audrey Williams June
BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS
Mismatch: How Affirmative Action Hurts Students It’s Intended to Help, and Why Universities Won’t Admit It by Richard H. Sander and Stuart Taylor, Jr.
Choosing Elites: Selecting the “Best and Brightest” at Top Universities and Elsewhere by Robert Klitgaard
Illiberal Education: The Politics of Race and Sex on Campus by Dinesh D’Souza
Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America by Richard K. Vedder
Affirmative Action Reconsidered: Was It Necessary in Academia? by Thomas Sowell