Please note: This is only a very partial list.  I do not claim to remember all the many books I have actually read.
tion:Education -Books

Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development: ASCD 1984–2004: Defining Moments, Future Prospects

Bernstein, Richard J. (1983) Beyond Objectivism and Relativism. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania
Press.

Bolman, L. & Deal, T.:
Reframing Organizations: Artistry, Choice, and Leadership

Brinkman, R. & Kirschner, R.: Dealing with People You Can't Stand

Covey, Stephen: The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

Cruickshank, D. & Jenkins, D.: The Act of Teaching

Delpit, Lisa: Other People’s Children: Cultural Conflicts in the Classroom

Groza, V.S. & Shelley, S.: Modern Elementary Algebra for College Students

Johnson, Spencer: Who Moved My Cheese?

Kuhn, Thomas. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.(1962). Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.

Lunenberg, F. &  Ornstein, A.:
Educational Administration: Concepts and Practices

Meier, D.; Kohn, A.; Darling-Hammond, L.; Sizer, T.; Wood, G.: Many Children Left Behind:
How the No Child Left Behind Act is Damaging Our Children and Our Schools

Perry, T.; Steele, C. & Hilliard, A., III: Young, Gifted, and Black: Promoting High Achievement
                                          among African-American Students

Reissman, R.: The Evolving Multicultural Classroom

Russo, Charles: Reutter's The Law of Public Education

Spinelli, Cathleen: Classroom Assessment for Students with Special Needs in Inclusive Settings

Vacca, R. & Vacca, J.: Content Area Reading: Literacy and Reading Across the Curriculum

Williams, B.: Closing the Achievement Gap: A Vision for Changing Beliefs and Practices

Education - Articles - General:

Cottrol, Diamond, Ware. (2004). The Decline of the Idea Of Caste, American Educator.

Ewing, Tom.  (2003, November).  ETS.  
Achievement Gap Will Not Close Without
Understanding Both School and Societal Factors
[Online], (1-3).  Available:
http://www.ets.org/news/03111801.html

Pransky, K. & Bailey, F. (2002).  Working with culturally and linguistically diverse At-risk students.  The Reading
Teacher, 56(4), 370-383.

Robelen, Erik W.  (2002, June).  North Central Regional Educational Lab.  
Taking On the
Gap
[Online], (1).  Available:  http://www.ncrel.org/gap/takeon/takeon.htm

Stafford, D. (2002).“Achieving “high quality” in the selection, preparation and Retention of Teachers.” Education
News.Org (Nov. 2002):  [Online]. (1-5). Internet. 15 July 2004.
Available :
http://www.educationnews.org/achievinghighqualityintheselectionpreparationandretentionofteachers.htm

Williams,B. (2003).  Closing the Achievement Gap.  Alexandria,VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum
Development.

Middle News Matters newsletter Philadelphia, PA: (June 2004). [Online]. (1)Internet.
12 July 2004.
www.philaedfund.org/pdfs/mgmjune.pdf

Haberman Foundation general reference: http://www.altcert.org

Rhetorica website: Analyzing Argument.  Retrieved September 25, 2005, from
http://rhetorica.net/argument.htm

Connors, R. J. (1985). Mechanical Correctness as a Focus in Composition Instruction. College Composition and
Communication, 36(1), 61-72.

Stern, A. A. (1976).
When is a Paragraph? College Composition and Communication, 39(2), 253-257.

Education - Articles - Legal

Overview of the Major Discipline Provisions in the 1999 IDEA Regulations
http://www.fape.org/idea/what_idea_is/discipline_overview.htm

Racial Inequity in Special Education: Executive Summary for Federal Policymakers
http://www.civilrightsproject.harvard.edu/research/specialed/IDEA_paper02.php

National Information Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities: What's Reauthorization All About?
http://www.nichcy.org/reauth/goodman.htm

American Bar Association: The IDEA and the Right to Learn
http://www.abanet.org/irr/hr/hurder.html

Wrightslaw, legal advocacy website for special needs students and related issues
http://www.wrightslaw.com/caselaw.htm

Institute for Public Affairs: Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) 2002 Reauthorization; Goals We
Seek
http://www.ou.org/public/publib/ideagoals.htm

Whitted & Cleary, LLC: Memo re: Recent IDEA Case Law and Teacher Attendance at IEP Meetings
http://www.whittedcleary.com/CM/Legal%20Updates/LegalUpdates185.asp

IDEIA
http://www.directionservice.org/pdf/Procedural%20SafeguardsII.doc

Egger, Dean B. (2005, March). What's New About the New IDEIA? From the Wadleigh, Starr & Peters, P.L.L.C.
website. Retrieved June 8, 2005, from
http://www.wadleighlaw.com/Articles/School/whats_new_about_new_ideia_050318.htm

National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities website.  Retrieved June 10, 2005, from http://www.
nichcy.org/reauth/scoop.htm

109th US Congress website. IDEA: Guide to Frequently Asked Questions.  Retrieved June 10, 2005, from http:
//www.educationnext.org/20042/22.html

Susan Ohanian’s website. Official: No Child Test Contradicts Disability Act, cited from Greg Stanmar’s article in
Pentagraph.com.  Retrieved June 11, 2005, from
http://www.susanohanian.org/show_nclb_atrocities.html?id=1031

Heinen, J. (2005). PES looks at joining NCLB lawsuit. Bureau County Republican, Princeton, Illinois. Retrieved
June 3, 2005, from:
http://www.bcrnews.com/articles/2005/01/13/news/news1.txt

Education - Articles -Technology

Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. (May, 2003). Effectiveness of Educational Technology: Issues and
Recommendations for the National Study (Draft)
,  Princeton, NJ: Agodini, R.; Dynarski, M.; Honey, M.; Levin, D.

Conlon, T. & Simpson, M. (2003).
Silicon Valley versus Silicon Glen: the impact of computers upon teaching and
learning: a comparative study
. British Journal of Educational Technology, 34(2), 137-150.

Peslak, A.R. (2004),
A 'benign addition'?  Research on ICT and pre-school children. Information Research, 9(4),
Retrieved October 20, 2004 from
http://www.informationr.net/ir/9-4/paper185.html

Plowman, L. & Stephen, C. (2003). An empirical study of the effect of information technology expenditures on
student achievement
.  Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 19, 149-164.

Rudd, P. (2000).
School Improvement through ICT  (Information and Communications Technology) Limitations
and Possibilities
. Retrieved October 20, 2004, from the National Foundation for Educational Research Web site:
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/educol/documents/00001768.html

Education - Rubrics

General Rubric:
http://www.nashville.k12.tn.us/webquests/Giraffe_Pelly/rubric1.html

Map Rubric :
http://www.nashville.k12.tn.us/webquests/Giraffe_Pelly/rubric2.html

Writing a letter to a Representative in Congress:
http://education.umn.edu/carei/Reports/pedagogy/tasks/CV-rep_letter.htm

Internet Paper Rubric:
http://web.odu.edu/webroot/orgs/Educ/Misc/MCTP.nsf/files/InternetGradingRubric.doc/$FILE/InternetGradingRubric.doc

Revolutionary War Rubric:
http://www.journeytoexcellence.org/practice/assessment/rubrics/social_studies.phtml

Exhibit Rubric:
http://www.k12.hi.us/~elarella/rubric_a.htm

Underground Railroad Rubric:
http://www.lessonplanspage.com/SecretsOfTheUndergroundRailroadUnitPresentationRubric4.htm

Essay Rubric:
http://www.lessonplanspage.com/SecretsOfTheUndergroundRailroadUnitPresentationRubric4.htm

History:

Antonius, George: The Arab Awakening: The Story of the Arab National Movement.

Ahmad, Leila, Women and Gender in Islam.

Braudel, Fernand. The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II.

Fernea, Elizabeth Warnock, In search of Islamic feminism : one woman's global journey.

Friedman, Thomas: From Beirut to Jerusalem.

Gibb, H. A. R. trans, The Travels of Ibn Battuta. 3 Vols, Cambridge, Hakluyt Society, 1971.

Grunebaum, G. E. von, Classical Islam: a History 600-1258, New York, Barnes & Noble Inc, 1997.

Holt P. M. and Bernard Lewis (ed.), Cambridge History of Islam, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1970.

Henri-Lévy, Bernard.  Left in Dark Times.

Hourani, Albert Habib, The Ottoman background of the modern Middle East, London, Harlow Longmans, 1970.

Hourani, Albert: History of the Arab Peoples.

Inalcik, H. The Ottoman Empire : the classical age, 1300-1600.

Kaplan, Robert D.: Eastward to Tartary : Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasus.

Kaplan, Robert D.: Balkan Ghosts : A Journey Through History.

Kaplan, Robert D.: Arabists: The Romance of an American Elite.

Keddie N., Sayyid Jamal ad-Din al-Afghani: A Political Biography, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1972.

Komroff, M., ed., Benjamin of Tudela, The Travels, 1160-73. London, 1928.

Lapidus, Ira M., A History of Islamic Societies, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1988.

Laqueur, Walter: A History of Zionism.

Laqueur, W. and Rubin, B.: The Israel-Arab Reader.

Lewis, Bernard: What Went Wrong? : The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East.

Lewis, Bernard: The Middle East.

Lewis, Bernard: Islam and the West.

Lewis, Bernard: The Arabs in History.

Lewis, Bernard: The Emergence of Modern Turkey (Studies in Middle Eastern History).

Lewis, Bernard: The Muslim Discovery of EuropeMarcus, Abraham: The Middle East On the Eve of Modernity :
Aleppo in the 18th Century.

Makdisi, George (ed.), Arabic and Islamic Studies in Honour of Hamilton, A. R. Gibb, Leiden: Brill, 1965.

Massignon, L., The Passion of al-Hallaj, Mystic and Martyr of Islam. Translated by Mason, H. 4 Vols, Princeton,
NJ, Princeton, 1982.

Mernissi, Fatima, Women and Islam: A Historical and Theological Inquiry.

Morse, Arthur: While Six Million Died: A Chronicle of American Apathy.

Nadler, Steven.  Spinoza: A Life. Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Owen, Robert.
World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction.

Reiss, Tom.
The Orientalist: Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life.  Random House, 1998.
http://www.tomreiss.info

Rosenberg, Tina. The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism.

Sachar, Howard M. A History of Israel from the Rise of Zionism to Our Time, Alfred A. Knopf, 1998

Schama, Simon
.  The Dutch Republic : Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall 1477-1806.

Shaw, Stanford J.: History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey: Volume 1, Empire of the Gazis: The Rise
and Decline of the Ottoman Empire 1280-1808.

Shipler, David K. Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land

Toussaint-Samat, Maguelonne: A History of Food.

Vidal, Gore: Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson.

Watt, Montgomery W., ISLAMIC SURVEYS: THE INFLUENCE OF ISLAM ON MEDIEVAL EUROPE, Edinburgh,
Edinburgh Univ. Press, 1972.

West, Rebecca, Dame, Black Lamb And Grey Falcon : A Journey Through Yugoslavia.
* Excerpts here: http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/flashbks/west/west1.htm

Literature:

Aitmatov, Chingiz. Farewell, Gulsary!

Asimov, Isaac.  I, Robot.

Asimov, Isaac.  Foundation Trilogy.

Bradbury, Ray.  Dandelion Wine.

Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451.

Bradbury, Ray.  The Illustrated Man.

Bradbury, Ray.  The Martian Chronicles.

Clarke, Arthur C.  Childhood's End.

Clarke, Arthur C. 2001:A Space Odyssey.

Eco, Umberto.  The Name of the Rose.

Eco, Umberto.  Foucault's Pendulum.

Gibson, William. Mona Lisa Overdrive

Gibson, William. Count Zero

Gogol, Nikolai. Taras Bulba.

Herbert, Frank. Dune Trilogy.

Lermontov, Mikhail. A Hero of Our Time.

Niven, Larry. Ringworld Trilogy.

Obama, Barack.  Dreams from My Father.

Pamuk, Orhan.  The Black Book.

Pushkin, Alexander. The Prisoner of the Caucasus.

Shteyngart, Gary.  Absurdistan.

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr.  One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.  

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr. The Gulag Archipelago.