Social Justice: Books About Class and Education

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The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth
The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth 4.56 avg rating — 436 ratings
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Five Practices for Equity-Focused School Leadership
Five Practices for Equity-Focused School Leadership 4.19 avg rating — 83 ratings
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Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Pedagogy of the Oppressed 4.30 avg rating — 37,866 ratings
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Stuck Improving: Racial Equity and School Leadership
Stuck Improving: Racial Equity and School Leadership 4.32 avg rating — 31 ratings
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The Orphan Conspiracies: 29 Conspiracy Theories from The Orphan Trilogy
The Orphan Conspiracies: 29 Conspiracy Theories from The Orphan Trilogy 3.84 avg rating — 450 ratings
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Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools
Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools 4.26 avg rating — 18,906 ratings
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Literacy with an Attitude: Educating Working-Class Children in Their Own Self-Interest
Literacy with an Attitude: Educating Working-Class Children in Their Own Self-Interest 3.94 avg rating — 292 ratings
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The Perils of "Privilege": Why Injustice Can't Be Solved by Accusing Others of Advantage
The Perils of "Privilege": Why Injustice Can't Be Solved by Accusing Others of Advantage 3.33 avg rating — 197 ratings
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Schooling in Capitalist America: Educational Reform and the Contradictions of Economic Life
Schooling in Capitalist America: Educational Reform and the Contradictions of Economic Life 4.25 avg rating — 220 ratings
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Class Rules: Exposing Inequality in American High Schools (Multicultural Education Series)
Class Rules: Exposing Inequality in American High Schools (Multicultural Education Series) 3.73 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Pedagogy of Hope: Reliving Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Pedagogy of Hope: Reliving Pedagogy of the Oppressed 4.27 avg rating — 874 ratings
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Breaking the Silence: My Final Forty Days as a Public School Teacher
Breaking the Silence: My Final Forty Days as a Public School Teacher 3.98 avg rating — 49 ratings
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A-Moms: How to Raise Competitive Award-Winning Students
A-Moms: How to Raise Competitive Award-Winning Students 3.75 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Education and Capitalism: Struggles for Learning and Liberation
Education and Capitalism: Struggles for Learning and Liberation 4.29 avg rating — 133 ratings
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Schooled!: Based on one lawyer’s true-life successes, failures, frustrations, and heartbreaks while teaching in the New York City public school system. (1)
Schooled!: Based on one lawyer’s true-life successes, failures, frustrations, and heartbreaks while teaching in the New York City public school system. (1) 3.88 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Hidden Figures
Hidden Figures 3.96 avg rating — 112,028 ratings
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The Fight for Freedom
The Fight for Freedom 3.93 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Garbage Bag Suitcase: A Memoir
Garbage Bag Suitcase: A Memoir 4.07 avg rating — 1,011 ratings
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McDonaldization Society
McDonaldization Society
by: Ian Tinny
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Bridges to Heal US: Stories and Strategies for Racial Healing
Bridges to Heal US: Stories and Strategies for Racial Healing 4.41 avg rating — 120 ratings
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We Don't Want YOU, Uncle Sam: Examining the Military Recruiting Crisis with Generation Z
We Don't Want YOU, Uncle Sam: Examining the Military Recruiting Crisis with Generation Z 4.09 avg rating — 57 ratings
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Ideology and Curriculum
Ideology and Curriculum 4.03 avg rating — 175 ratings
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The Hidden Curriculum
The Hidden Curriculum 3.69 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Swastikas, Nazis, Pledge of Allegiance Lies Exposed by Rex Curry and Francis & Edward Bellamy
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Swastikas, Nazis, Pledge of Allegiance Lies Exposed by Rex Curry and Francis & Edward Bellamy 2.90 avg rating — 20 ratings
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A Marxist Education: Learning to Change the World
A Marxist Education: Learning to Change the World
by: Wayne Au
4.39 avg rating — 105 ratings
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The Adolescent Society: The Social Life of the Teenager and its Impact on Education
The Adolescent Society: The Social Life of the Teenager and its Impact on Education 3.38 avg rating — 8 ratings
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How Schools Make Race: Teaching Latinx Racialization in America
How Schools Make Race: Teaching Latinx Racialization in America 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Preparing for Power: America's Elite Boarding Schools
Preparing for Power: America's Elite Boarding Schools 3.68 avg rating — 91 ratings
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Black Woman on Board: Claudia Hampton, the California State University, and the Fight to Save Affirmative Action (Gender and Race in American History, 9)
Black Woman on Board: Claudia Hampton, the California State University, and the Fight to Save Affirmative Action (Gender and Race in American History, 9) 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Privilege: Harvard and the Education of the Ruling Class
Privilege: Harvard and the Education of the Ruling Class 3.42 avg rating — 336 ratings
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Socialization and social class (Prentice-Hall sociology series)
Socialization and social class (Prentice-Hall sociology series) it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life
Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life 4.16 avg rating — 3,385 ratings
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Tracking Inequality: Stratification and Mobility in American High Schools (Sociology of Education Series)
Tracking Inequality: Stratification and Mobility in American High Schools (Sociology of Education Series) 3.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Keeping Track: How Schools Structure Inequality
Keeping Track: How Schools Structure Inequality 4.04 avg rating — 133 ratings
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Class And Schools: Using Social, Economic, And Educational Reform To Close The Black-white...
Class And Schools: Using Social, Economic, And Educational Reform To Close The Black-white... 3.89 avg rating — 149 ratings
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Tearing Down the Gates: Confronting the Class Divide in American Education
Tearing Down the Gates: Confronting the Class Divide in American Education 3.85 avg rating — 87 ratings