Books on Education
1. 
The Lost Promise: American Universities in the 1960s
by:
Ellen Schrecker
4.12 avg rating — 17 ratings 3. 
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Stuck Improving: Racial Equity and School Leadership
by:
Decoteau J. Irby
4.32 avg rating — 31 ratings 5. 
Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools
by:
Jonathan Kozol
4.26 avg rating — 18,905 ratings 
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Dinosaur Eggs and Blue Ribbons: A Look at Science Fairs, Inside & Out it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Just Back Off and Let Us Teach: A Book for Effective Teachers and Those Who Champion Them 4.53 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
by:
James W. Loewen
3.97 avg rating — 72,726 ratings 11. 
Neurology: The Amazing Central Nervous System (Super Smart Science Series) 4.36 avg rating — 67 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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Doing School: How We Are Creating a Generation of Stressed-Out, Materialistic, and Miseducated Students 3.62 avg rating — 671 ratings
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Cellular Biology: Organelles, Structure, Function (Super Smart Science Series) 3.99 avg rating — 76 ratings
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Educating Esmé: Diary of a Teacher's First Year
by:
Esmé Raji Codell
3.91 avg rating — 6,537 ratings 20. 
The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything
by:
Ken Robinson
3.86 avg rating — 18,708 ratings 21. 
curiosita teaching: Integrating Creative Thinking Into Your 21st Century Classroom 1.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Secrets of Top Students: Tips, Tools, and Techniques for Acing High School and College
by:
Stefanie Weisman
4.08 avg rating — 210 ratings 21. 
The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to Quit School and Get a Real Life and Education
by:
Grace Llewellyn
4.22 avg rating — 1,357 ratings 
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Breaking the Silence: My Final Forty Days as a Public School Teacher 3.98 avg rating — 49 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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Motherhood – The perils and perks of growing gifted children
by:
Daniela Proca
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 21. 
Mission High: One School, How Experts Tried to Fail It, and the Students and Teachers Who Made It Triumph
by:
Kristina Rizga
4.12 avg rating — 433 ratings 21. 
A-Moms: How to Raise Competitive Award-Winning Students
by:
Marion Shaw
3.75 avg rating — 12 ratings 21. 
Could Do Better: Why Children Underachieve and What to Do About It
by:
Harvey P. Mandel
3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings 21. 
Personal Narrative, Revised: Writing Love and Agency in the High School Classroom (Language and Literacy Series) 4.39 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Lives in Ruins: Archaeologists and the Seductive Lure of Human Rubble
by:
Marilyn Johnson
3.64 avg rating — 2,115 ratings 21. 
The Power of the Socratic Classroom: Students. Questions. Dialogue. Learning. 4.30 avg rating — 30 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 21. 
A New Way to Know: Using Artificial Intelligence to Augment Learning in Students with Cognitive Disabilities
by:
Al Jones Jr.
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings 21. 
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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Drama High: The Incredible True Story of a Brilliant Teacher, a Struggling Town, and the Magic of Theater
by:
Michael Sokolove
4.04 avg rating — 1,516 ratings 
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A Thomas Jefferson Education: Teaching a Generation of Leaders for the Twenty-First Century
by:
Oliver DeMille
4.21 avg rating — 3,818 ratings 
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Quiet at School: An Educator's Guide to Shy Children
by:
Robert J Coplan
3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings 42. 
The Class of '65: A Student, a Divided Town, and the Long Road to Forgiveness
by:
Jim Auchmutey
4.39 avg rating — 444 ratings 42. 
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
by:
Neil Postman
4.16 avg rating — 36,103 ratings 
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Quiet at School: An Educator's Guide to Shy Children
by:
Robert J Coplan
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 49. 
Late, Lost, and Unprepared: A Parents' Guide to Helping Children with Executive Functioning 3.85 avg rating — 580 ratings
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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens: The Ultimate Teenage Success Guide
by:
Sean Covey
4.05 avg rating — 37,210 ratings 53. 
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
by:
Malala Yousafzai
4.16 avg rating — 612,724 ratings 
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The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ
by:
Joseph Smith Jr.
4.24 avg rating — 89,753 ratings 59. 
Stylized: A Slightly Obsessive History of Strunk & White's The Elements of Style
by:
Mark Garvey
3.77 avg rating — 156 ratings 61. 
The Shape of Content (Charles Eliot Norton Lectures 1956-1957) (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)
by:
Ben Shahn
4.21 avg rating — 738 ratings 62. 
A New Culture of Learning: Cultivating the Imagination for a World of Constant Change
by:
Douglas Thomas
3.77 avg rating — 810 ratings 
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The Lost Education of Horace Tate: Uncovering the Hidden Heroes Who Fought for Justice in Schools 4.31 avg rating — 97 ratings
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DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education
by:
Anya Kamenetz
3.63 avg rating — 574 ratings 66. 
Educational Reconstruction: African American Schools in the Urban South, 1865-1890
by:
Hilary N. Green
4.17 avg rating — 18 ratings 68. 
Waiting for ""SUPERMAN"": How We Can Save America's Failing Public Schools (Participant Guide Media)
by:
Karl Weber
3.50 avg rating — 1,088 ratings 68. 
We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change
by:
Myles Horton
4.33 avg rating — 994 ratings 
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You Can Do Anything: The Surprising Power of a "Useless" Liberal Arts Education
by:
George Anders
3.49 avg rating — 485 ratings 72. 
An Education in Georgia: Charlayne Hunter, Hamilton Holmes, and the Integration of the University of Georgia
by:
Calvin Trillin
3.80 avg rating — 46 ratings 73. 
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Lives of Museum Junkies: The Story of America's Hands-On Education Movement 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Best Intentions: The Education and Killing of Edmund Perry
by:
Robert Sam Anson
3.99 avg rating — 156 ratings 76. 
Help Your Child to Thrive: Making the Best of a Struggling Public Education System 3.25 avg rating — 8 ratings
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The Tyranny of the Meritocracy: Democratizing Higher Education in America
by:
Lani Guinier
3.86 avg rating — 205 ratings 78. 
Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality
by:
Richard Kluger
4.44 avg rating — 712 ratings 79. 
Preparing the Next Generation of Oral Historians: An Anthology of Oral History Education
by:
Barry A. Lanman
4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings 80. 
Why We Make Things and Why It Matters: The Education of a Craftsman
by:
Peter Korn
3.73 avg rating — 1,696 ratings 81. 
Interviewing for Education and Social Science Research: The Gateway Approach really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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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 85. 
This Georgia Rising: Education, Civil Rights, and the Politics of Change in Georgia in the 1940s
by:
Patrick Novotny
it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating 87. 
Earth in Mind: On Education, Environment, and the Human Prospect
by:
David W. Orr
4.18 avg rating — 669 ratings 88. 
Fifty Years of Anthropology and Education, 1950-2000: A Spindler Anthology 2.50 avg rating — 2 ratings