What's the best new book about education?

I was just checking out a textbook buyback website when I found your posting here. I have to agree with Mr. Stager to some point here, but I don't think that voting or not voting some books will change the way education takes place in our country/countries. Maybe the thing we actually need is not more books about education, but the initiative to force people who can change this flawed educational environment and I'm talking here about the people we vote for and represent us. There are plenty of books that explain in details how, where, when and what should be done... But I don't see the people reading these books taking initiative and protesting in front of the office of elected people.

What about "Fast Food Education" by Taylor & Brock? They explain learning in a way that makes sense and is easy to understand. Moreover, they challenge us to think in a way consistent with the philosophy of Edutopia.

Staff comment:

The choices listed here were simply the top vote getters in our annual Readers' Survey. We’ve inserted language to make that more clear.

Has anyone brought this book to your attention, authored by your own Spiral Notebook blogger Suzie Boss? Reinventing Project-Based Learning: Your Field Guide to Real-World Projects in the Digital Age. It's practical and lofty at the same time, a great handbook for teacher teams wishing to change practice--together.

First of all, the notion that Daniel Pink's deeply flawed book is about education is outrageous. I'm even more concerned that his competition is a National Book Award winner and 40-year advocate for children, Jonathan Kozol.

Please read my review of Pink's book here:
http://tinyurl.com/33ftt8

Nominating the benefactor of this magazine in the advocacy category violates the most basic tents of fairness and journalistic objectivity.

The nominees in the blogging category are not all blogs and your setup piece demonstrates a profound ignorance of the medium.

Not all of the nominees in the podcasting category are podcasts.

Nominating Office as best "educational sofware" is about as ridiculous as using Math Blaster as an exemplar of non-drivel.

How could Computer Science not be nominated for courses not offered, but should be?

The choices for most important issues to parents and teachers assume that schools are dangerous miserable test-prep boot camps. Where's your imagination Edutopia?

I sure hope heads will roll as a result of this most shoddy journalistic exercise. Readers deserve better from the George Lucas Foundation.