Ed Johnson of Atlanta offers his reading list, to add to mine:
In addition to the titles Diane Ravitch lists, below, include these:
Andrea Gabor, After the Education Wars: How Smart Schools Upend the Business of Reform
Caitlin Rosenthal, Accounting for Slavery: Masters and Management
Cathy O’Neal, Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
Diane Ravitch, Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America’s Public Schools
Shani Robinson and Anna Simonton, None of the Above: The Untold Story of the Atlanta Public Schools Cheating Scandal, Corporate Greed, and the Criminalization of Educators
Happy summer reading!
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Wonderful list! Thank you, Ed Johnson.
Does anyone around here read fiction? If yes, I would highly recommend a new translation by Brian Nelson of Émile Zola’s His Excellency Eugène Rougon, the second of his recommended reading order of the 20 novel Rougon-Maquart cycle. Probably the best political novel I’ve ever read. Although it is set in the time of the French Second Empire, the parallels to our current national catastrophe are remarkable. Rougon is the strongest political figure in the French Assembly during the reign of Napoleon III, an authoritarian with exceptional political skills. His views about the press and exercise of his patronage power would be right at home today. I loved a passage about how the people who used him to enrich themselves reacted when they thought he had lost his power. Seems like it describes how Republicans today would act if Individual-1 is finally deposed:
“They had taken possession of every part of him, using his feet to climb, his hands to steal, his jaws to tear and devour. They lived on his flesh, deriving all their pleasure and health from it, feasting on it without any thought of the future. And now, having sucked him dry, and beginning to hear the very foundations cracking, they were scurrying away, like rats who know a building is about to collapse, after they had gnawed great holes in the walls. The whole gang was healthy and sleek. They were feeding on other flesh now.”
I recommend Solitary by Albert Woodcox (one of the Angola 3), about a man who spent four decades in solitary confinement in Angola Prison in Louisiana. He was finally released in 2016, and has been traveling the country speaking out. He became a Black Panther in prison, and while in solitary, he managed to have an uplifting effect on the entire prison by demanding and fighting for respect and humanity for all. Incredibly strong book.
Also The Long Honduran Night: Resistance, Terror, and the United States in the Aftermath of the Coup by Dana Frank. Critical to understanding the current migrant crisis, it is a horrifying depiction of the attacks, and an uplifting telling of the resistance.
Dear Ed and Diane, thanks for including my book on this list. Thank you also GregB for this wonderful Zola recommendation