Great Books on Education
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A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present
by:
Howard Zinn
4.08 avg rating — 259,691 ratings 3. 
Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life 3.88 avg rating — 6,971 ratings
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Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
by:
Edward S. Herman
4.24 avg rating — 23,236 ratings 
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Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
by:
bell hooks
4.45 avg rating — 12,301 ratings 8. 
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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
by:
James W. Loewen
3.97 avg rating — 72,722 ratings 10. 
Stuck Improving: Racial Equity and School Leadership
by:
Decoteau J. Irby
4.32 avg rating — 31 ratings 
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A Predicament of Innocents: Might the Schools Help?
by:
George Stranahan
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings 20. 
MY DAUGHTER NATASHA: Discovering Life’s Hard Truths One Street At A Time
by:
Artie Dimanche
4.62 avg rating — 8 ratings 22. 
The Lost Promise: American Universities in the 1960s
by:
Ellen Schrecker
4.12 avg rating — 17 ratings 23. 
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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Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
by:
Maryanne Wolf
3.85 avg rating — 8,021 ratings 27. 
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 Power of the Socratic Classroom: Students. Questions. Dialogue. Learning. 4.30 avg rating — 30 ratings
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The Child Whisperer: Classroom Management Through Calmness and Consequences
by:
Alexander Zwick
3.84 avg rating — 25 ratings 32. 
Beyond the Campus: Building a Sustainable University - Community Partnership
by:
Debra A. Harkins
3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings 33. 
We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change
by:
Myles Horton
4.33 avg rating — 994 ratings 33. 
Dear Citizen Math: How Math Class Can Inspire a More Rational and Respectful Society
by:
Karim Ani
4.11 avg rating — 44 ratings 35. 
Restoring Education: Central to American Greatness Fifteen Principles that Liberated Mankind from the Politics of Tyranny
by:
David A. Norris
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 36. 
Political Agenda of Education: A Study of Colonialist and Nationalist Ideas
by:
Krishan Kumar
4.50 avg rating — 18 ratings 
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Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain
by:
John J. Ratey
4.13 avg rating — 17,029 ratings 40. 
How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character
by:
Paul Tough
3.89 avg rating — 24,501 ratings 41. 
The Tyranny of the Meritocracy: Democratizing Higher Education in America
by:
Lani Guinier
3.86 avg rating — 205 ratings 42. 
Howard Zinn on Democratic Education (Series in Critical Narrative)
by:
Howard Zinn
4.24 avg rating — 80 ratings 43. 
We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom
by:
Bettina L. Love
4.53 avg rating — 6,312 ratings 44. 
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Towards a Theory of Educational Transmissions: Towards a Theory of Educational Transmission 4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Releasing the Imagination: Essays on Education, the Arts, and Social Change
by:
Maxine Greene
4.16 avg rating — 232 ratings 51. 
The Education of the Child: And Early Lectures on Education (Foundations of Waldorf Education, 25)
by:
Rudolf Steiner
4.09 avg rating — 341 ratings 52. 
Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia 4.53 avg rating — 144 ratings
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The Old Boys: The Decline and Rise of the Public School
by:
David Turner
3.69 avg rating — 36 ratings 
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A-Moms: How to Raise Competitive Award-Winning Students
by:
Marion Shaw
3.75 avg rating — 12 ratings 52. 
Capturing the Spark: Inspired Teaching, Thriving Schools
by:
David B. Cohen
4.64 avg rating — 14 ratings 52. 
Common Sense for Our Common Good: A Parent Guide to Good Schools
by:
Jim Baumann
4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings 
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Please Don't Tell Mum that I Have Become a Government School Teacher - She Thinks I'm Still at Law School
by:
Hugh Bachmann
4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings 52. 
Sprouting Into Greatness: Principles of Personal Development That Will Empower You to Create Your Own Destiny
by:
Thea Long White
4.87 avg rating — 39 ratings 52. 
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Teaching What Really Happened: How to Avoid the Tyranny of Textbooks and Get Students Excited About Doing History
by:
James W. Loewen
4.24 avg rating — 576 ratings 52. 
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Two Hundred One Tasks for the Modern Elementary Teacher
by:
Dianne Dodson
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings 52. 
How to Think Like Shakespeare: Lessons From a Renaissance Education
by:
Scott L. Newstok
3.87 avg rating — 379 ratings 52. 
What's in Your CORE?: An Educator's Guide to Plugging into Purpose and Perspective
by:
Gary Goelz
4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings 52. 
The Cult of Smart: How Our Broken Education System Perpetuates Social Injustice
by:
Fredrik deBoer
3.54 avg rating — 936 ratings 52. 
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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Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life
by:
Peter O. Gray
4.26 avg rating — 4,065 ratings 
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Math-ish: A Groundbreaking Guide to Finding Joy and Understanding in Mathematics
by:
Jo Boaler
4.24 avg rating — 424 ratings 
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The Human Side of Changing Education: How to Lead Change With Clarity, Conviction, and Courage 3.74 avg rating — 39 ratings
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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 
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When You Rise Up: A Covenant Approach to Homeschooling
by:
R.C. Sproul Jr.
3.88 avg rating — 600 ratings 76. 
The Apprentice's Sorcerer: Liberal Tradition and Fascism
by:
Ishay Landa
4.54 avg rating — 121 ratings 
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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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Screen Schooled: Two Veteran Teachers Expose How Technology Overuse Is Making Our Kids Dumber
by:
Joe Clement
4.05 avg rating — 243 ratings 
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The Politics of Teaching Palestine to Americans: Addressing Pedagogical Strategies 3.30 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Sisters of the Academy: Emergent Black Women Scholars in Higher Education
by:
Anna L. Green
4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings 94. 
If Holden Caulfield Were in My Classroom: Inspiring Love, Creativity, and Intelligence in Middle School Kids
by:
Bernie Schein
3.84 avg rating — 31 ratings 94. 
The Queen of Education: Rules for Making School Work
by:
LouAnne Johnson
3.83 avg rating — 30 ratings 94. 
The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home
by:
Susan Wise Bauer
4.33 avg rating — 7,428 ratings 94. 
Passion-Driven Education: How to Use Your Child's Interests to Ignite a Lifelong Love of Learning
by:
Connor Boyack
4.26 avg rating — 358 ratings 