Education Research: K-12
Virtual presence for attendees and those interested in the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association. Books on sale, University of Minnesota Press information, and more.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS: 40% OFF BOOKS
All books below are 40% off using code MNAERA23. Code expires June 15, 2023.
BROWSE EDUCATION RESEARCH BOOKS BY CATEGORY:
RACE // GENDER // CHILDHOOD STUDIES // ART // LAW
PUBLIC POLICY // HUMAN RIGHTS // ETHNOGRAPHY
DISABILITY STUDIES // SOCIOLOGY
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Strike! Twenty Days in 1970 When Minneapolis Teachers Broke the Law William D. Green 2022 Spring
- The complex and dramatic history of an illegal teachers’ strike that forever altered labor relations and Minnesota politics
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The Unteachables Disability Rights and the Invention of Black Special Education Keith A. Mayes 2022 Fall
- How special education used disability labels to marginalize Black students in public schools
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All through the Town The School Bus as Educational Technology Antero Garcia 2023 Spring
- The role of the humble school bus in transforming education in America
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Raising Ollie How My Nonbinary Art-Nerd Kid Changed (Nearly) Everything I Know Tom Rademacher 2021 Fall
- The account of one radically new school year for a Teacher of the Year and for his nonbinary, art-obsessed, brilliant child
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Class Action Desegregation and Diversity in San Francisco Schools Rand Quinn 2019 Fall
- A compelling history of school desegregation and activism in San Francisco
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The Price of Nice How Good Intentions Maintain Educational Inequity Angelina E. Castagno, Editor 2019 Fall
- How being “nice” in school and university settings works to reinforce racialized, gendered, and (dis)ability-related inequities in education and society
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Learning versus the Common Core Nicholas Tampio 2019 Spring
- An open challenge to Common Core’s drive for uniformity
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A Contest without Winners How Students Experience Competitive School Choice Kate Phillippo 2019 Spring
- Seeing the consequences of competitive school choice policy through students’ eyes
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The Swindle of Innovative Educational Finance Kenneth J. Saltman 2018 Fall
- How “innovative” finance schemes skim public wealth while hijacking public governance
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The Right to Be Out Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in America’s Public Schools, Second Edition Stuart Biegel 2018 Fall
- An updated edition of this measured, practical, and timely guide to LGBT rights and issues for educators and school officials
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Black Boys Apart Racial Uplift and Respectability in All-Male Public Schools Freeden Blume Oeur 2018 Fall
- How neoliberalism and the politics of respectability are transforming African American manhood
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Youth Media Matters Participatory Cultures and Literacies in Education Korina M. Jocson 2017 Fall
- How young people making media have potential to shape pedagogy, raise social awareness, and promote creative self-expression
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Inheriting Possibility Social Reproduction and Quantification in Education Ezekiel J. Dixon-Román 2017 Fall
- Outstanding Book Award from the American Educational Research Association: From the SAT to social mobility statistics, examining quantitative measurements of human learning and development while rethinking their possibilities
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It Won’t Be Easy An Exceedingly Honest (and Slightly Unprofessional) Love Letter to Teaching Tom Rademacher 2017 Spring
- A frank and funny behind-the-scenes look at teaching from a hard-working and highly entertaining Teacher of the Year
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Compulsory Education and the Dispossession of Youth in a Prison School Sabina E. Vaught 2017 Spring
- A groundbreaking look at America’s public education system through the lens of prison schooling
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Downed by Friendly Fire Black Girls, White Girls, and Suburban Schooling Signithia Fordham 2016 Fall
- Rehabilitating the meaning of gender-specific violence
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First Strike Educational Enclosures in Black Los Angeles Damien M. Sojoyner 2016 Fall
- Challenging perceptions of schooling and prison through the lens of America’s most populous state
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A Curriculum of Fear Homeland Security in U.S. Public Schools Nicole Nguyen 2016 Fall
- Winner: American Association of Geographers Globe Book Award for Public Understanding of Geography
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A Good Investment? Philanthropy and the Marketing of Race in an Urban Public School Amy Brown 2015 Fall
- How privatized education funding reinforces race and class inequities
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Sexuality in School The Limits of Education Jen Gilbert 2014 Spring
- Explores and expands on the role of sexuality in teaching and learning
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Academic Profiling Latinos, Asian Americans, and the Achievement Gap Gilda L. Ochoa 2013 Fall
- The achievement gap as it is actually experienced by Latino and Asian American students in one California high school
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Survival Schools The American Indian Movement and Community Education in the Twin Cities Julie L. Davis 2013 Spring
- The first history of two alternative schools founded by AIM in the Twin Cities in 1972—and their role in revitalizing Native culture and community
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The Seeds We Planted Portraits of a Native Hawaiian Charter School Noelani Goodyear-Kaʻōpua 2013 Spring
- Reveals the paradoxes of teaching indigenous knowledge within institutions built to marginalize and displace it
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Police in the Hallways Discipline in an Urban High School Kathleen Nolan 2011 Fall
- Exposing the deeply harmful impact of street-style policing on urban high school students
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Mothers United An Immigrant Struggle for Socially Just Education Andrea Dyrness 2011 Spring
- An intimate and inspiring account of immigrant Latina mothers fighting for better schools for their children