Best Books on Education Reform
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Stuck Improving: Racial Equity and School Leadership
by:
Decoteau J. Irby
4.32 avg rating — 31 ratings 2. 
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Liberty & Learning: Milton Friedman's Voucher Idea at Fifty
by:
Robert C. Enlow
4.06 avg rating — 18 ratings 6. 
The Underground History of American Education: An Intimate Investigation Into the Prison of Modern Schooling 4.31 avg rating — 1,296 ratings
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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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Real Education: Four Simple Truths for Bringing America's Schools Back to Reality
by:
Charles Murray
3.94 avg rating — 708 ratings 9. 
Chalkbored: What's Wrong with School and How to Fix It
by:
Jeremy Schneider
3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings 9. 
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 9. 
Breaking the Silence: My Final Forty Days as a Public School Teacher 3.98 avg rating — 49 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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Can We Talk About Race?: And Other Conversations in an Era of School Resegregation 4.11 avg rating — 496 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 17. 
The Trouble with Boys: A Surprising Report Card on Our Sons, Their Problems at School, and What Parents and Educators Must Do
by:
Peg Tyre
3.86 avg rating — 746 ratings 17. 
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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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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 25. 
The Case Against Adolescence: Rediscovering the Adult in Every Teen
by:
Robert Epstein
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 92 ratings 25. 
The Tyranny of the Meritocracy: Democratizing Higher Education in America
by:
Lani Guinier
3.86 avg rating — 205 ratings 25. 
The Queen of Education: Rules for Making School Work
by:
LouAnne Johnson
3.83 avg rating — 30 ratings 28. 
The Conspiracy of Ignorance: The Failure of American Public Schools
by:
Martin L. Gross
3.73 avg rating — 74 ratings 28. 
We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change
by:
Myles Horton
4.33 avg rating — 994 ratings 28. 
Making Schools Work: A Revolutionary Plan to Get Your Children the Education They Need
by:
William G. Ouchi
3.79 avg rating — 14 ratings 31. 
Educating Your Child in Modern Times: How to Raise an Intelligent, Sovereign & Ethical Human Being 4.37 avg rating — 124 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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A Different Kind of Teacher: Solving the Crisis of American Schooling 4.30 avg rating — 375 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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Schools That Work: America's Most Innovative Public Education Programs
by:
George H. Wood
3.84 avg rating — 25 ratings 37. 
The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students 4.25 avg rating — 2,215 ratings
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Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning
by:
James M. Lang
4.28 avg rating — 1,516 ratings 39. 
How Humans Learn: The Science and Stories behind Effective College Teaching
by:
Joshua R. Eyler
4.03 avg rating — 279 ratings