Education Update’s Advisory Council
Summer Reading List
Dr. Alfred Posamentier
Dean, School of Education, CCNY
• Richard Wagner and the Jews by Milton E. Brener
• The Pity of It All by Amos Elon.
Dr. Mary M. Brabeck
Dean and Professor, NYU Steinhardt School of Education
I want to read poetry: Maya Angelou, Seamus Heaney, Walt Whitman, Adrienne Rich, Octavio Paz, Robert Frost, Pedro Neruda and Marie Ponsot.
And I want to read The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz, Say You’re One of Them by Uwem Akpan, S. J., The Emperor’s Children by Claire Messud, and Data Wise: A Step-by-Step Guide to Using Assessment Results to Improve Teaching and Learning
Dr. Sheila Evans-Tranumn
Assoc. Comm. of Education, NYS
My reading list include some re-reads as well as books written by friends.
• The Debt by Randall Robinson
• Its All About Love by Susan L. Taylor
• Black Pain (a little about me in the book)
My re-reads inclusde three must reads for urban educators
• Parchment
• Pedogogy of the Oppressed
• The Miseducation of the Negro
• Teaching Other People’s children
Dr. Harold Koplewicz
Founder & Director, NYU Child Study Center
• What Is The What by Dave Eggers
• Those Who Save Us by Jon Krakauer
• Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum
• Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
• Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
Dr. Cynthia Greenleaf
Director, Partnerships, Chicago Public Schools
• God’s Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215
• White Teeth by Zadie Smith
• Failues of the Legal Imagination by Alan Watson
• No Longer at Ease by Chinua Achebe
• Doctor Copernicus by John Banville
• Some Mysteries by Henning Mankell, Jacqueline Winspear and Donna Leon
• College Succee: What It Means and How to Make it Happen edited by Michael McPherson and Morton Schapiro
Dr. Bonnie Kaiser
Director, Precollege Program Rockefeller University
• A Voyage Long and Strange by Tony Horwitz
• The Story of a Marriage by Andrew Greer
• A Mission Song by John Le Carre
• The Indian Clerk by David Leavitt
• The Black Book by Oran Pamuk
• Lush Life by Richard Price
• The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton
• The Ball and the Cross by G. K. Chesterton
Eric Nadelstern
CEO, Empowerment Schools
• Why Pride Matters More than Money by Jon Katzenbach
• The Self-organizing School by Alan Bain
• United Mind Workers by Kerchner, Koppich & Weeres#
