Best Books About the State of Education
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Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning
by:
Peter C. Brown
4.16 avg rating — 21,598 ratings 
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The Lost Promise: American Universities in the 1960s
by:
Ellen Schrecker
4.12 avg rating — 17 ratings 4. 
Don't Go Back to School: A Handbook for Learning Anything
by:
Kio Stark
3.67 avg rating — 565 ratings 5. 
The Talent Code: Unlocking the Secret of Skill in Sports, Art, Music, Math, and Just About Everything Else
by:
Daniel Coyle
4.03 avg rating — 26,519 ratings 
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Never Go With Your Gut: How Pioneering Leaders Make the Best Decisions and Avoid Business Disasters
by:
Gleb Tsipursky
4.14 avg rating — 252 ratings 9. 
Stuck Improving: Racial Equity and School Leadership
by:
Decoteau J. Irby
4.32 avg rating — 31 ratings 10. 
How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character
by:
Paul Tough
3.89 avg rating — 24,501 ratings 11. 
Creative Schools: The Grassroots Revolution That's Transforming Education
by:
Ken Robinson
4.10 avg rating — 4,084 ratings 12. 
Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through The Dark World of Compulsory Schooling 4.23 avg rating — 3,295 ratings
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Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy 4.26 avg rating — 1,500 ratings
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The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups
by:
Daniel Coyle
4.25 avg rating — 33,880 ratings 15. 
Freefall Of The American University: How Our Colleges Are Corrupting The Minds And Morals Of The Next Generation
by:
Jim Nelson Black
3.25 avg rating — 16 ratings 16. 
The End of Average: How We Succeed in a World That Values Sameness
by:
Todd Rose
4.05 avg rating — 4,432 ratings 
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The Art of Learning: A Journey in the Pursuit of Excellence
by:
Josh Waitzkin
4.04 avg rating — 20,496 ratings 19. 
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
by:
Steven Pinker
4.09 avg rating — 25,080 ratings 20. 
The End of Jobs: Money, Meaning and Freedom Without the 9-to-5
by:
Taylor Pearson
4.01 avg rating — 1,486 ratings 21. 
A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science
by:
Barbara Oakley
4.20 avg rating — 21,352 ratings 22. 
Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning
by:
James M. Lang
4.28 avg rating — 1,517 ratings 23. 
Getting Grit: The Evidence-Based Approach to Cultivating Passion, Perseverance, and Purpose 3.83 avg rating — 210 ratings
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The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact
by:
Chip Heath
4.12 avg rating — 24,097 ratings 25. 
Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work
by:
Chip Heath
3.96 avg rating — 18,034 ratings 26. 
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Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future
by:
Martin Ford
3.96 avg rating — 9,473 ratings 28. 
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
by:
Joshua Foer
3.88 avg rating — 93,086 ratings 
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Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life 3.88 avg rating — 6,972 ratings
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Creating Significant Learning Experience: An Integrated Approach to Designing College Courses
by:
L. Dee Fink
4.14 avg rating — 341 ratings 33. 
How We Learn: The Surprising Truth About When, Where, and Why It Happens
by:
Benedict Carey
3.91 avg rating — 7,318 ratings 34. 
How Learning Works: Seven Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching
by:
Susan A. Ambrose
4.12 avg rating — 1,331 ratings 
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Paying the Price: College Costs, Financial Aid, and the Betrayal of the American Dream 4.11 avg rating — 394 ratings
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The School Revolution: A New Answer for Our Broken Education System
by:
Ron Paul
3.73 avg rating — 689 ratings 35. 
Sex and God at Yale: Porn, Political Correctness, and a Good Education Gone Bad
by:
Nathan Harden
3.22 avg rating — 100 ratings 35. 
Machine Learning: An Introduction Math Guide for Beginners to Understand Data Science Through the Business Applications
by:
Samuel Hack
4.39 avg rating — 23 ratings 35. 
Juror Number 2: The Story of a Murder, the Agony of a Neighborhood
by:
Efrem Sigel
3.37 avg rating — 54 ratings 35. 
The Way It Spozed to Be (Innovators in Education)
by:
Jack Herndon
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 110 ratings 
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The Ultimate College Financial Aid Guide: Understand the Aid Offer & Ask For More Money
by:
Diana Barbu
4.50 avg rating — 12 ratings 35. 
HumAIn: Navigating the Impact of AI in a Jobless Future
by:
Amanda Gibbs
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 
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How Two Gerbils, Twenty Goldfish, Two Hundred Games, Two Thousand Books, and I Taught Them How to Read
by:
Steven Daniels
4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings 45. 
Game On: Why College Admission Is Rigged and How You Can Beat the System
by:
Susan F. Paterno
3.25 avg rating — 85 ratings 
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The Tyranny of the Meritocracy: Democratizing Higher Education in America
by:
Lani Guinier
3.86 avg rating — 205 ratings 50. 
Illiberal Education: The Politics of Race and Sex on Campus
by:
Dinesh D'Souza
3.59 avg rating — 328 ratings 50. 
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Making schools work: A reporter's journey through some of America's most remarkable classrooms
by:
Robert Benjamin
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 
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Tenured Radicals, Revised: How Politics has Corrupted our Higher Education
by:
Roger Kimball
3.56 avg rating — 100 ratings 55. 
The Queen of Education: Rules for Making School Work
by:
LouAnne Johnson
3.83 avg rating — 30 ratings 58. 
Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
by:
Max Tegmark
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 26,834 ratings 58. 
The New Science of Learning: How to Learn in Harmony With Your Brain
by:
Terry Doyle
3.78 avg rating — 174 ratings 58. 
Indoctrination U: The Left's War Against Academic Freedom
by:
David Horowitz
3.83 avg rating — 78 ratings 
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Education That Works: The Neuroscience of Building a More Effective Higher Education
by:
James Stellar
4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings 62. 
Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World
by:
Rutger Bregman
4.21 avg rating — 41,583 ratings 62. 
The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America
by:
David Horowitz
3.29 avg rating — 164 ratings 62. 
Schools That Work: America's Most Innovative Public Education Programs
by:
George H. Wood
3.84 avg rating — 25 ratings 
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Making Schools Work: A Revolutionary Plan to Get Your Children the Education They Need
by:
William G. Ouchi
3.79 avg rating — 14 ratings 68. 
Empower: What Happens When Student Own Their Learning
by:
John Spencer
4.10 avg rating — 962 ratings 68. 
Teaching Naked: How Moving Technology Out of Your College Classroom Will Improve Student Learning 3.70 avg rating — 197 ratings
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The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture 3.96 avg rating — 1,812 ratings
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Launch: Using Design Thinking to Boost Creativity and Bring Out the Maker in Every Student
by:
John Spencer
4.09 avg rating — 726 ratings 71. 
Can We Talk About Race?: And Other Conversations in an Era of School Resegregation 4.11 avg rating — 496 ratings
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The Black Book of the American Left: Volume Vlll: The Left in the University
by:
David Horowitz
4.08 avg rating — 12 ratings 74. 
The End of School: Reclaiming Education from the Classroom
by:
Zachary Slayback
3.76 avg rating — 42 ratings 74. 
A New Culture of Learning: Cultivating the Imagination for a World of Constant Change
by:
Douglas Thomas
3.77 avg rating — 810 ratings 74. 
The University We Need: Reforming American Higher Education
by:
Warren Treadgold
2.76 avg rating — 33 ratings 77. 
BrandED: Tell Your Story, Build Relationships, and Empower Learning 3.91 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Minds on Fire: How Role-Immersion Games Transform College
by:
Mark C. Carnes
4.10 avg rating — 97 ratings 80. 
Unlearning Liberty: Campus Censorship and the End of American Debate
by:
Greg Lukianoff
4.22 avg rating — 398 ratings 83. 
Beyond Brilliance: The Blueprint for Learning Anything
by:
Lucas Miller
4.09 avg rating — 22 ratings 
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Zig Zag: The Surprising Path to Greater Creativity
by:
R. Keith Sawyer
3.89 avg rating — 361 ratings 86. 
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Not a Day Care: The Devastating Consequences of Abandoning Truth
by:
Everett Piper
4.07 avg rating — 210 ratings 
91. 
Creating Great Choices: A Leader's Guide to Integrative Thinking
by:
Jennifer Riel
4.04 avg rating — 427 ratings 91. 
Beyond the University: Why Liberal Education Matters
by:
Michael S. Roth
3.68 avg rating — 229 ratings 91. 
Brainwashed: How Universities Indoctrinate America's Youth
by:
Ben Shapiro
3.64 avg rating — 1,558 ratings 
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Collaborative Learning: Higher Education, Interdependence, and the Authority of Knowledge 3.90 avg rating — 20 ratings
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The Killing of History: How Literary Critics and Social Theorists Are Murdering Our Past 3.89 avg rating — 221 ratings
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The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students 4.25 avg rating — 2,214 ratings
