User:Andrei Radulescu-Banu

Andrei Radulescu-Banu is a Lexington Town Meeting member from Precinct 8 since 2013.

Contact info

86 Cedar St, Lexington MA 02421
617 216 8509 (cell)
781 862 5854 (home)

Web sites

• http://lex4lang.org - advocacy for Foreign Languages in Lexington elementary schools
• http://andrei4schools.com - Andrei's 2012 School Committee campaign web site
• http://bitdribble.com - Andrei's personal web site

Andrei is a maintainer of lex-wiki.org. Please feel free to contact him for questions and suggestions through his talk page or by direct email:

He is also a founder of the LinkedIn Math Connection discussion forum, counting 7,489 members in June, 2013.

Newspaper articles and blog posts

• Lexington Patch: Shenanigans from Clark, Sciortino (Oct 13, 2013)
• Lexington Patch: The Obama-Romney Benghazi debate, 11 months later (Aug 6, 2013)
• Lexington Patch: Gomez v Markey: the Policy Wonk and the Neophyte (June 24, 2013)
• Lexington Patch: Lex-Wiki.org Version 2.0 Released (May 3, 2013)
• Lexington Patch: School Committee Starts Elementary School Foreign Languages Discussion (Mar 29, 2013)
• Lexington Minuteman: Foreign languages needed at elementary schools (Jan 13, 2012)
• Lexington Patch: Give Foreign Languages Another Chance (Sep 28, 2011)

Mailing list and blog posts

• lex-tmma (mailing list of Lexington Town Meeting): Andrei's posts
• lex-polrel (requires registration to view): Andrei's posts
• The Core Knowledge Blog: Andrei's posts

Math papers and preprints

• Faithfulness of a functor of Quillen, by William G. Dwyer, Andrei Radulescu-Banu, Sebastian Thomas, Algebraic & Geometric Topology 10(1) (2010), pp. 525-530: arXiv:0910.1038
• Cofibrations in Homotopy Theory, by Andrei Radulescu-Banu, preprint (2006): arXiv:math/0610009
• Cofibrance and Completion, by Andrei Radulescu-Banu, PhD thesis (1999): arXiv:math/0612203.

Andrei's Bookshelf

2013

• La Pensée de midi : Archéologie d'une gauche libertaire, by Michel Onfray (2007), ISBN 978-2718607559
• Justice Denied, by Marci A. Hamilton (2008), ISBN 052188621X
• The Crisis Of Zionism, by Peter Beinart (2012), ISBN 978-0805094121
• Kill Or Capture: The War on Terror and the Soul of the Obama Presidency, by Daniel Klaidman (2012), ISBN 9780547547893
• The Dispensable Nation: American Foreign Policy in Retreat, by Vali Nasr (2013), ISBN 978-0385536479
• The Architecture Of Country Houses, by A.J. Downing, Dover edition 1969 (originally published 1850), ISBN 978-0486220031
• The Writing On The Wall and other literary essays, by Mary McCarthy (1970, first published 1965), ISBN 978-0156983907
• Between Friends: The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarty, 1949-1975, edited by Carol Brightman (1995), ISBN 978-0156002509
• Hannah Arendt: For Love of the World, 2nd edition, by Elisabeth Young-Bruehl (2004, first published 1998), ISBN 978-0300105889
• The Portable Hannah Arendt, edited by Peter Bayer (2000), ISBN 978-0142437568
• Free For All: Defending Liberty in America Today, by Wendy Kaminer (2002), ISBN 978-0807044117
• Venture Capital and Private Equity: A Casebook, by Josh Lerner, Felda Hardymon, Ann Leamon, ISBN 978-0470650912 (ordered)
• The Trouble With America, by Michel Crozier (1984), ISBN 978-0520049789
• Who Governs? Democracy and Power in an American City, by Robert A. Dahl (orig publication 1961), ISBN 978-0300103922
• Fundamentals of Tax Policy, by Richard Almy, Alan Dornfest, Daphne Kenyon (2008), ISBN 978-0-88329-188-7
• The Appraisal of Real Estate, by the Appraisal Institute (12th Edition, 2001), ISBN 978-0922154678
• Community Power Structure, by Floyd Hunter (initial publication 1953), ISBN 978-0807840337
• Private Guns, Public Health, by David Hemenway (2004), ISBN 978-0472031627
• How to be an MP: Learning the Commons Knowledge, by Paul Flynn (2012), ISBN 978-1849542203
• Energy Myths And Realities: Bringing Science to the Energy Policy Debate, by Vaclav Smil (2010), ISBN 978-0844743288
• The Environmental Advantages of Cities: Countering Commonsense Antiurbanism, by William B. Meyer (2013), ISBN 978-0262518468
• Taking Sustainable Cities Seriously: Economic Development, the Environment, and Quality of Life in American Cities, by Kent E. Portney (2013), ISBN 978-0262518277
• Citizenship and Governance in a Changing City: Somerville, MA, by Susan Ostrander, ISBN 978-1439910139
• City Limits, by Paul E. Peterson (1981), ISBN 978-0226662930

2012

• Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President, by Ron Suskind (2011), ISBN 978-0061430466
• Republic of Noise: The Loss of Solitude in Schools and Culture, by Diana Senechal (2012), ISBN 978-1610484114
• The German Genius, by Peter Watson (2010), ISBN 978-0060760229

Books On Education

• Horace Mann: A Biography, by Jonathan Messerli (1972), ISBN 978-0394429205
• The Process Of Education, by Jerome Bruner (1960), ISBN 978-0674710016
• The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education, by Diane Ravitch (2011), ISBN 978-0465025572
• The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy, by Nicholas Lemann (2000), ISBN 978-0374527518
• John Dewey & The Decline Of American Education, by Henry T. Edmondson III (2006), ISBN 978-1932236521
• John Dewey and American Democracy, by Robert B. Westbrook (1993), ISBN 978-0801481116
• Anti-Intellectualism In American Life, by Richard Hofstadter (1962), ISBN 978-0394703176
• The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn, by Diane Ravitch (2004), ISBN 978-1400030644
• The Revisionists Revised: A Critique of the Radical Attack on the Schools, by Diane Ravitch (1978), ISBN 978-0465069439
• Learning to Read, by Jeanne Chall (1967), ISBN 978-0070103825
• Antonio Gramsci: Conservative Schooling for Radical Politics, by Harold Entwistle (2009), ISBN 978-0415561167
• Class, Culture and Education, by Harold Entwistle (1978), ISBN 978-0416757200
• Child-Centered Education, by Harold Entwistle (1970), ISBN 978-0416811001
• Education and the Cult of Efficiency, by Raymond E. Callahan (1964), ISBN 978-0226091501
• NEA: the first hundred years. The building of the teaching profession, by Edgar B. Wesley (1957)
• American Education: The Colonial Experience, 1607-1783, by Lawrence Cronin (1972), ISBN 978-0061316708
• American Education: The National Experience, 1783-1876, by Lawrence Cronin (1980), ISBN 978-0060109127
• American Education: The Metropolitan Experience, 1876-1980, by Lawrence Cronin (1988), ISBN 978-0060158040
• The Troubled Crusade: American Education, 1945-1980, by Diane Ravitch (1985), ISBN 978-0465087570
• Left Back: A Century of Battles over School Reform, by Diane Ravitch (2001), ISBN 978-0743203265