Bibliography
BASIC STUDY BOOKS
 Lyman, Mary Grace. Public Education: Issues and Challenges. New
York: General Board of Global Ministries, The United Methodist Church,
2004. Service Center # 3597, $7.50.
The education of young people is a mission of The United Methodist Church with a long and
rich history. This study looks at the issues and challenges that presently
face the public education system in this country, including vouchers,
home schooling, inequalities of education, testing, and more.The leader’s
guide that is a part of the study offers group activities to help a leader
bring the material in the text into the local community for action and
reflection. The guide is designed for four two-hour sessions, but has
outlines for other time frames.
A four-page reprint in Korean (#5693) and Spanish (#5694)
which appears in the May/June editions of United
Methodists in Service and El
Interprete gives a summary of the 2004 mission study on Public
Education. Free for postage and handling.
Gee, Martha Bettis. I Dream of a School : Mission Study on
Public Education: Youth Book with Leader’s Guide. New York: General Board of Global Ministries, The United Methodist Church,
2004. Service Center #3598, $6.00
Many young people can articulate clearly what is wrong with
their schools and what they think would make a difference. They need
tools to help them translate their own clear understanding of what they
face at school into an understanding of what others face. They need lenses
for viewing the larger issues of legislation and funding that directly
affect their education and the education of others. The aim of this study
is to give young people the perspective, the tools, and the motivation
to make a vision of quality education for all real.
Response (April, 2004) Service
Center #3494, $1.75.
New World Outlook (March/April,
2004). Service Center #3504, $5.00.
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RESOURCES
See the bibliography on pp 124-126 in Public Education: Issues and Challenges by
Mary Grace Lyman for more suggested resources
United Methodism
Education: The Gift of Hope 2001: A Study
Resource for Churches and Schools. Board of Higher Education and Ministry,
The United Methodist Church, 2001. Cokesbury, $10.00.
Education: The Gift of Hope . General Board
of Higher Education and Ministry, The United Methodist Church, 2001.
Cokesbury, $10.00.
Reece, Wayne C. Ed. Opting
for Virtue in Public Life. Cokesbury, 2003 $8.00
When the Church Speaks: Guide to the Social
Principles. Cokesbury, 2001. $3.00
Issues in Public Education
Al- Hibri, Azizah, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Charles C Haynes,
Martin E. Marty, Daniel A. Sharp. Religion
in American Public Life: Living
With Our Deepest Differences. W.W. Norton, 2001. $4.00.
Berliner, David C., Bruce J. Biddle, James Bell. Manufactured Crisis: Myths, Fraud, and the Attack on
America’s Public Schools. Perseus, 1996. $20.00
Delpit, Lisa. Other Peoples’
Children:Cultural Conflict in the Classroom. New Press,
1996. $16.00
Delpit, Lisa and Joanna Kilgour Dowdy. Skin We Speak: Thoughts on Language and Culture in
the Classroom. New Press, 2003.$11.87.
Dewey, John. Education
and Experience. Free Press, 1997, $8.95.
Finn, Chester Jr., Bruno V. Manning, and Gregg Vanourek. Charter Schools in Action. Princeton University
Press, 2001. $21.00.
Fraser, James W. Between
Church and State: Religion and Public Education in a Multicultural
America. Palgrave Macmillan, 2000. $5.00.
Ginsberg, Margery B. and Raymond J. Wlodkowski. Creating Highly Motivating Classrooms for All Students:
A Schoolwide Approach to Powerful Teaching with Diverse Learners. Jossey-Bass,
2000. $30.00.
Hill, Paul Thomas and Mary Beth Celio. Fixing Urban Schools. Brookings, 1998 . $ 17.00.
Hooks, Bell. Where We Stand:
Class Matters. Routledge, 2000. $17.00
Jossey- Bass Reader on Gender in Education. Jossey-
Bass, 2002. $27.00
Kessler, Rachel. Soul of
Education: Helping Students Find Connection, Compassion, and Character
at School. ASCD, 2000. $23.00.
Kolbert, Kathryn and Zak Mettger, eds. Justice Talking: School Vouchers: Leading Advocates
Debate Today’s Most Controversial Issues. New Press, 2002.$25.00.
Kugler, Eileen Gail. Debunking
the Middle-Class Myth: Why Diverse Schools Are Good for All Kids. Rowman
and Littlefield, 2002. $23.50
Ladson-Billings, Gloria. Dreamkeepers:
Successful Teachers of African American Children. Jossey-Bass,
1997. $13.27.
McKay, A. Bruce and Joanne Newcombe. Aligning Resources for Student Achievement.
National School Boards Association, 2002. $15.00.
Mishel, Lawrence and Richard Rothstein, eds. Class Size Debate. Economic Policy Institute,
2002. $13.50.
Mondale, Sarah, ed. What’s Public About Charter Schools?: Lessons Learned
About Choice and Accountability.Beacon, 2002. $20.00.
Monroe, Barbara. Crossing
the Digital Divide: Race, Writing and Technology in the Classroom. Teachers
College, 2004. $24.00.
Noguera, Pedro. City Schools
and the America Dream: Reclaiming the Promise of Public Education. Teachers
College Press, 2003. $19.95.
Olsen, Laurie and Herbert R. Kohl. Made in America: Immigrant Students in Our Public Schools. New Press,
1998. $16.00.
Olweus, Dan. Bullying at
School: What We Know and What We Can Do. Blackwell, 1994.
$20.65.
Ordinary Resurrections: Children in the
Years of Hope. Perennial, 2001. $11.20.
Pflaum, William. Technology
Fix: The Promise and Reality of Computers in Our Schools.
ASCD, 2004. $16.00
Popham, W. James. Truth
About Testing: An Educator’s Call to Action. ASCD, 2001.
$24.00.
Sacks, Peter. Standardized
Minds: The High Price of America’s Testing Culture and What We Can
Do To Change It. Perseus, 2001. $26.00.
Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s
Schools. Harper Perennial, 1992. $11.20.
Schaller, Lyle E. Evolution
of American Public High School: From Prep School to Prison to New
Partnerships. Abingdon, 2000. Service Center #3317. $!5.00.
Sears, James T. and James C. Carper, eds. Curriculum, Religion, and Public Education: Conversations
for an Enlarging Public Square.Teachers College, 1998.
$30.00.
Thoughtful Teachers, Thoughtful Schools:
Issues and Insights in Education Today. Editorial Projects
in Education. Prentice Hall, 1997. $25.00
Turnbull, Ann P. , Dorothy Leal, H, Rutherford Turnbull, Marilyn
Shank. Exceptional Lives: Special
Education in today’s Schools. Prentice Hall, 2003, $87.00.
Tyack, David B. and Larry Cuban. Tinkering Toward Utopia: A Century of Public School Reform. Harvard,
1997. $20.00
Wheelock, Anne. Crossing
the Tracks: How “Untracking” Can Save America’s Schools. New Press, 1992. $20.00
Why Are All the Black kids Sitting Together
in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race: A Psychologist
Explains the Development of Racial Identity. Basic, 2003. $11.17.
Williams, Belinda, ed. Closing
the Achievement Gap: A Vision for Changing Beliefs and Practices. ASCD,
2003 $26.00.
Wong, Kenneth K. Funding
Public Schools: Politics and Policies. University Press of Kansas,
1999. $16.00.
Action Possibilities
Benson, Peter L. , ed. Fragile
Foundations: The State of Developmental Assets Among American Youth.
Search Institute, 1999. $19.00.
Benson, Peter L., Judy Galbraith, and Pamela Espeland. What Teens Need to Succeed: Proven, Practical Ways
to Shape Your Own Future . Free Spirit, 1998. $16.00
Calfee, Carol, Frank Wittwer, Mimi Meridith. Building a Full-Service School: A Step-by-Step Guide. Jossey-
Bass,1998. $39.00.
Cordeiro, Paula A. Boundary
Crossings: Educational Partnerships and School Leadership: New Directions
for School Leadership. Jossey-Bass, 1997. $35.00.
Davis, Deborah and Lisa Race. A Quick-Start Guide to Building Assets in Your School: Moving From Incidental
to Intentional. Search Institute, 2003. $10.00
Faith in the Five Planning Guide: a Step-by-Step
Guide for Enriching the Lives of Young People in Your Congregation
and Community. America’s Promise Alliance for Youth.
Kretzmann, John P. And John L. McKnight. Building Communities from the Inside Out: A Path Toward
Finding and Mobilizing a Community’s Assets.ACTA, 1997.
$15.00.
Starkman, Neal, Peter C. Scales and Clay Roberts. Great Places to Learn: How Asset-Building Schools Help
Students Succeed. Search Institute, 1999. $ 30.00.
Roehlkepartain, Eugene C. and Donald Draayer. Learning and Living: How Asset Building for Youth Can
Unify a School’s Mission. Search Institute, 1998. $ 3.95.
ONLINE STUDIES
 The
Four Tides of United Methodism. John McEllhenny,
John. Electronic version: www.drew.edu/books/200Years/200UM/titlepg.htm.
Education: How Can Schools and Communities
Work Together to Meet the Challenge? (Order a free copy from www.studycircles.org.)
A study circle discussion guide to help communities
work together on a range of issues and challenges facing our schools
today. This guide is intended to be used in conjunction with SCRC’s how-to
guide Organizing Community-Wide Dialogue
for Action and Change.
Many
more online links and resources at
http://gbgm-umc.org/missionstudies/publiceducation/links.cfm
 About
the Authors:
Mary Grace Lyman retired from the staff of the Women’s
Division, General Board of Global Ministries of The United
Methodist Church in 2002 after more than 20 years of service.
For the majority of that time, she administered the program
of schools of Christian mission for United Methodist Women
across the United States, giving oversight to content, training
leadership for schools, and development of printed and video
study materials for adults, children and youth. She has taught
extensively in regional and conference schools of Christian
mission. She is active in her annual conference and in the
wider United Methodist Church, having served as a delegate
to General and Jurisdictional Conferences. She is a member
of the Scarritt-Bennett Center Board of Directors. Mary Grace
began her career as a high school mathematics teacher. She
is married to Jim Lyman, a retired high school physics teacher.
They have two grown children and three grandchildren. She enjoys
travel, music and home arts.
 Martha
Bettis Gee is a writer, editor, and consultant in educational
ministry. A certified Christian educator for the Presbyterian
Church (USA), she is employed as Director of Christian education
at Fairlawn Presbyterian
Church, Columbus, Indiana. For 16 years she was Associate for
Curriculum Development for Children for the Congregational
Ministries Division of the Presbyterian
Church (USA) and was involved in children's ministries, child
advocacy and mission education. She is the author of the Things
to Make and Do series of books on creative activities
for children. For over a decade she was an elementary school
teacher.
Martha lives in LaGrange, Kentucky, and is married to William
W. Gee. She has a daughter, Amelia Pillow, and a daughter
and son-in-law, Megan and Jonathan Davis. |
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