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- ↑ "Mary Lou Fulton College of Education Faculty Page: David Berliner". Arizona State University. Archived from the original on 2007-10-28. Retrieved 2007-10-09.
- ↑ Berliner, D.C., & Biddle, B.J. (1995). The manufactured crisis. New York: Addison- Wesley. (Republished by Harper Collins)
- ↑ Gage, N.L., & Berliner, D.C. (1998) Educational psychology (6th ed.). Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin
- ↑ Berliner, D.C., & Casanova, U. (1993). Putting research to work in your school. New York: Scholastic Publishers. (Reprinted 1996 by IRI/Skylight Publishers)
- ↑ Nichols, S.N. & Berliner, D.C. (2007). Collateral Damage: The effects of high-stakes testing on America’s schools. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press.
- ↑ Berliner, D.C., & Calfee, R.C. (Eds.) (1996).Handbook of Educational Psychology(1st ed.). New York: Macmillan. ISBN 0-02-897089-6
- ↑ Fisher, C.W., & Berliner, D.C. (Eds.) (1985). Perspectives on instructional time, and 50 Myths and lies that threaten America's public schools with Gene V. Glass. He is also the father of Brett A. Berliner, a professor at Morgan State University and author of Ambivalent Desire: The Exotic Black Other in Jazz Age France. York: Longman.
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