Here are some of my favorite films, books and articles on the subject of education and other related issues:

Films

Waiting for Superman

The Lottery


Books

Liberating Learning, Terry M. Moe

The Secret of TSL, William G Ouchi

Waiting for Superman, Companion book to the film, edited by Karl Weber

Life Without Lawyers, Phillip K. Howard

Making Schools Work, William G. Ouchi

Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, Daniel H. Pink

The Global Achievement Gap, Tony Wagner

The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age, Cathy N. Davidson

The Wisdom of Crowds, James Surowiecki

I, Pencil, Leonard E. Read

The Education Gap—Vouchers and Urban Schools, Paul E. Peterson and William G. Howell

Learning from School Choice, Bryan C. Hassel and Paul E. Peterson

Tearing Down the Gates: Confronting the Class Divide in American Education, Peter Sacks

High Noon: 20 Global Problems, 20 Years to Solve Them, J. F. Rischard

The Beautiful Tree: A Personal Journey Into How the World’s Poorest People Are Educating Themselves, James Tooley

Tearing Down the Gates: Confronting the Class Divide in American Education, Peter Sacks

Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything, Don Tapscott


Articles

“Financial Incentives and Student Achievement: Evidence from Randomized Trials,” Roland G. Fryer, Jr., Harvard University, EdLabs and NBER, April 8, 2010

“Evaluation of the DC Opportunity Scholarship Program,” Patrick Wolf et al, U.S. Department of Education, June 2010

“Another Look at the New York City School Voucher Experiment,” Alan B. Krueger and Pei Zhu, Princeton University and NBER, January 2004

“Principal Stratification Approach to Broken Randomized Experiments: A Case Study of School Choice Vouchers in New York City,” John Barnard et al, Journal of the American Statistical Association, June 2003

“School Choice as a Latent Variable: Estimating the ‘Complier Average Causal Effect’ of Vouchers in Charlotte,” Joshua M. Cowen, Policy Studies Journal, May 2008

“Vouchers in Charlotte,” Jay P. Greene, Education Matters, Summer 2001

“Private School Vouchers and Student Achievement: An Evaluation of the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program,” Cecilia Elena Rouse, Princeton University and NBER, Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 1998

“Full-Day vs. Half-Day Kindergarten: In Which Program Do Children Learn More?,” Valerie E. Lee et al, May 2005