EDUCATION  ISSUES

ELECTRONIC  MEDIA

“Thomas Sowell on ‘Charter Schools and Their Enemies’”: Interviewed on Uncommon

                  Knowledge by Peter Robinson (Web Series) 

Charter Schools and Their Enemies by Thomas Sowell (Audiobook, Kindle)

No Excuses: Closing the Racial Gap in Learning by Abigail Thernstrom and

                  Stephan Thernstrom (Kindle)

“Black Education: Achievements, Myths and Tragedies,” Black Rednecks and White

                  Liberals by Thomas Sowell (Audiobook, Kindle)

“Black Education: Myths and Tragedies— Why Achievement Gaps Persist,” Reihan

                  Salam, Eric Hanushek, and Ian Rowe, at the Old Parkland Conference

                  (discussion)

“‘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

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, available for download

“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, revised and enlarged edition, Chapters 5–9, 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