The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice are Undermining Education by Diane Ravitch (New York: Basic Books, 2010)

The American Educator, a Quarterly Journal of Educational Research and Ideas, published by the American Federation of Teachers

The Writing Road to Reading: The Spalding Method for Teaching Speech, Spelling, Writing, and Reading by Romalda Bishop Spalding (Harper Paperbacks, 2003)

A Marshall Plan for Reading: How New York Schools Can Close the Education Gap by Sol Stern (City Journal - Summer 2008)

What Education Schools Aren't Teaching About Reading and What Elementary Teachers Aren't Learning by the National Council on Teacher Quality - May 2006

The Reading Crisis: Why Poor Children Fall Behind by Jeanne Chall (Harvard University Press, 1990)