Readings

We understand that the best teachers never stop being students. In the spirit of lifelong learning, you can frequently find our noses buried in a great read. We've supplied a list of some of our favorites below!

College Admissions

• College Unbound: The Future of Higher Education and What It Means for Students

  • Selingo, Jeffrey

• Where You Go Is Not Who You'll Be: An Antidote to the College Admissions Mania

  • Bruni, Frank

• Dear Parents: A Field Guide for College Preparation

  • McGee, Jon

• The Truth About College Admission: A Family Guide to Getting In and Staying Together

  • Barnard, Brennen

• Colleges That Change Lives: 40 Schools That Will Change the Way You Think About Colleges

  • Pope, Loren

• The Price of Admission: How America's Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges--and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates

  • Golden, Daniel, Brand

• The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton

  • Karabel, Jerome

• The Gatekeepers: Inside the Admissions Process of a Premier College

  • Steinberg, Jacques

• College Admission Essentials

  • Sawyer, Ethan

• College Essay Essentials

  • Sawyer, Ethan

• The Art of Coaching: Effective Strategies for School Transformation

  • Aguilar, Elena

• The Stressed Years of Their Lives: Helping Your Kid Survive and Thrive During Their College Years

  • Hibbs, Janet & Rostain, Anthony

• There is Life After College: What Parents and Students Should Know About Navigating School to Prepare for the Jobs of Tomorrow

  • Selingo, Jeffrey

• Who Gets In and Why: A Year Inside College Admissions

  • Selingo, Jeffrey

• Fiske Guide to Colleges: 2021

  • Fiske, Edward

• The Years That Matter Most: How College Makes or Breaks Us

  • Tough, Paul

• The Race Between Education and Technology

  • Goldin, Claudia & Katz, Lawrence

• Demographics and the Demand for Higher Education

  • Grawe, Nathan

• The Merit Myth: How Our Colleges Favor the Rich and Divide America

  • Carnevale, Schmidt, Strohl

• The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

  • Lukianoff, Greg & Haidt, Jonathan

• Unacceptable: Privilege, Deceit & the Making of the College Admissions Scandal

  • Korn, Melissa & Levitz, Jennifer

• The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?

  • Sandel, Michael

• The Hidden Ivies: 63 of America's Top Liberal Arts Colleges and Universities

  • Greene, Howard & Greene, Matthew

• Cool Colleges: For the Hyper-Intelligent, Self-Directed, Late Blooming, and Just Plain Different

  • Asher, Donald

• The Price You Pay for College: An Entirely New Road Map for the Biggest Financial Decision Your Family Will Ever Make

  • Lieber, Ron​

Equity, Equality, Diversity

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• The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students

  • Jack, Anthony Abraham

• The Price of Privilege: How Parental Pressure And Material Advantage Are Creating A Generation Of Disconnected And Unhappy Kids

  • Levine, Madeline

• Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria: And Other Conversations About Race

  • Tatum, Beverly Daniel

• Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism

  • Hooks, Bell

• The Feminine Mystique

  • Friedan, Betty

• The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women

  • Wolf, Naomi

Startups and Entrepreneurship

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• The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses

  • Ries, Eric

• Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It

  • Voss, Chris

• Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

  • Thiel, Peter

• Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers

  • Ferriss, Timothy

• Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work

  • Heath, Chip

• Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us

  • Godin, Seth

• The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich

  • Ferriss, Timothy

• Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World

  • Ferriss, Timothy

• Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't

  • Collins, Jim

• Winning Her Business: How to Transform the Customer Experience for the World's Most Powerful Consumers

  • Brennan, Bridget