The Best Books of the Past Decade According to Ed Next Readers
In August 2010, Education Next invited readers to pick the three best education policy books of the past decade from a list of 41 books. The poll ran until the end of December, which gave authors a good chance to mobilize their following. A total of 4,343 votes were cast.
Generally speaking, opinion on this topic was even more divided than on most education policy questions, as only one book garnered the enthusiasm of more than 10 percent of the votes cast. That book was Diane Ravitch’s The Death and Life of the Great American School System (2010), which won the poll by a wide margin, pulling in 22 % of the total. The other top books, in order of reader enthusiasm, were as follows: