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Yong Zhao has published over 100 journal articles and book chapters, as well as over 20 scholarly books and textbooks in English and Chinese.  Refer to his vita to for a complete list of his publications.  Here are a few of his most recent publications:

Recent Books

Ginsberg, R. & Zhao, Y. (2023). Duck and Cover: Confronting and Correcting Dubious Practices in Education. New York: Teachers College Press.

McDiarmid, G. W. & Zhao, Y. (2023). Improbable Probabilities: The Unlikely Journey of Yong Zhao. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree

Zhao, Y. & Wehmeyer, M. (2023). Chinese Translation of Educating the Self-Determined Learners. Beijing, Zhanglu.

McDiarmid, G. W. & Zhao, Y. (2022). Learning for Uncertainty: Teaching Students in a Rapidly Evolving World. New York: Routledge.

Zhao, Y. (2021). Learners without Borders. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin.

Teaching Students to Become Self-Determined Learners (with M. Wehmeyer), 2020, Arlington, VA: ASCD.

An Education Crisis Is a Terrible Thing to Waste: How Radical Changes Can Spark Student Excitement and Success (w. Trina E. Emler, Anthony Snethen, Danqing Yin), 2019, New York, Teachers College Press.

What Works May Hurt: Side Effects in Education. 2018, New YorkL Teachers College Press.

Reach for Greatness: Personalizable Education for All Children. 2018, Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin.

Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Dragon: Why China has the Best (and Worst) Education System in the World, 2014, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

World Class Learners: Educating Creative and Entrepreneurial Students, 2012, Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin

Handbook of Asian Education, 2011, New York: Routledge (Editor)

Catching Up or Leading the Way: American Education in the Age of Globalization, 2009, Alexandria, VA, ASCD.

The Digital Pencil: One-to-One Computing for Children. (with J. Lei and P. Conway). (2008). Mawhaw, NJ: Erlbaum.

Recent Articles

  1. Zhao, Y. (2023). Learning for uncertainty: reach for greatness. Educational Research for Policy and Practice. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10671-023-09358-z.
  2. Williamson McDiarmid and Yong Zhao (2023). Time to Rethink: Educating for a Technology-Transformed World. ECNU Review of Education, 6(2), 189-214.
  3. Zhao, Y. (2023). New Concepts and Trends in the Cultivation of International Elite Creative Talents. Journal of East China Normal University, 5, 2023, 1-15.
  4. Watterston, J. & Zhao, Y. (2023). Rethinking the time spent at school: Could flexibility improve engagement and performance for students and teachers? Prospects. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11125-023-09638-9.
  5. Beghetto, R. & Zhao, Y. (2022). Democratizing Creative Educational Experiences. Review of Research in Education, 46(1). vii-xv.
  6. Zhao, Y. (2022). New Context, New Teachers, and New Teacher Education. Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, 30(2), 127-133.
  7. Dede, C., Zhao, Y., Mishra, P., & Bonk, C. J. (2022). The Silver lining for learning webcasts as a bottom-up driver of global educational innovation. Journal of Digital Politics, 1(3), 523-542. https://www.rivisteweb.it/doi/10.53227/103803
  8. McDiarmid, G. W. & Zhao, Y. (2022). Time to Rethink: Educating for a Technology-Transformed World. ECNU Review of Education. https://doi.org/10.1177/20965311221076493.
  9. Zhao, Y. (2021). Significant Issues and Future Directions of Educational Assessment (Jiaoyu Pingjia de Jida Wenti ji Fazhan Fangxiang). Journal of East China Normal University (Educational Sciences), 39(4), 1-14.
  10. Rigney, D. Y. & Zhao, (2021). Side effects in education: Taxonomy of educational outcomes. Prospects. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11125-021-09574-6.
  11. Zhao, Y. (2021). Build back better: Avoid the learning loss trap. Prospects. doi:10.1007/s11125-021-09544-y
  12. Zhao, Y., Watterston, J. (2021). The changes we need: Education post COVID-19. Journal of Educational Change. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10833-021-09417-3. 22 (1), 3-12
  13. Zhao, Y. (2020). COVID-19 as a catalyst for educational change. Prospects49, 29–33.
  14. Zhao, Y. (2020). Speak a Different Language: Reimagine the Grammar of Schooling. International Studies in Educational Administration (Commonwealth Council for Educational Administration & Management (CCEAM)), 48(1), 4-10.
  15. Zhao, Y. (2020). Tofu Is Not Cheese: Rethinking Education Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic. ECNU Review of Education, 3(2):189-203.
  16. Zhao, Y. (2020). Two decades of havoc: A synthesis of criticism against PISA. Journal of Educational Change, 21,245–266.
  17.  Zhao, Y. (w. Z. G. Yuan) (2019).Respect the power of large-scale assessments: What they cannot measure. ECNU Review of Education,
  18. Zhao, Y. (2019). The rise of the useless: The case for talent diversity. Journal of Science Education and Technology


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