A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door: The Dismantling of Public Education and the Future of School
By: Jack Schneider
4.09
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
A trenchant analysis of how public education is being destroyed in overt and deceptive ways--and ho…
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1. The Teacher Wars: A History of America's Most Embattled Profession
By: Dana Goldstein
4.07
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In her groundbreaking history of 175 years of American education, Dana Goldstein finds answers in t… read more
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"Even we set aside the nearly 50 percent of all beginner teachers who choose to leave the profession within five years—and ignore the evidence that those who leave are worse performers than those who …"-Dana Goldstein, The Teacher Wars: A History of America's Most Embattled Profession
"Henry David Thoreau, Susan B. Anthony, W. E. B. DuBois, and Lyndon B. Johnson are just a few of the famous Americans who taught. They resisted the fantasy of educators as saints or saviors, and under…"-Dana Goldstein, The Teacher Wars: A History of America's Most Embattled Profession
2. Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life
By: Barbara J. Fields , Karen E. Fields
4.27
Format: 359 pages, Hardcover
Most people assume that racism grows from a perception of human difference: the fact of race gives … read more
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3. For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood... and the Rest of Y'all Too: Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education
By: Christopher Emdin
3.15
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Merging real stories with theory, research, and practice, a prominent scholar offers a new approach… read more
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4. The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education
By: Diane Ravitch
3.66
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A passionate plea to preserve and renew public education, The Death and Life of the Great American … read more
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5. White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America
By: Anthea Butler
4.27
Format: 176 pages, Kindle Edition
The American political scene today is poisonously divided, and the vast majority of white evangelic… read more
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6. Poverty, by America
By: Matthew Desmond
4.27
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more
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"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
7. Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power
By: Jefferson R. Cowie
4.50
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
A prize-winning historian chronicles a sinister idea of freedom: white Americans’ freedom to oppres… read more
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"His body "was the corporeal archive of his pugnacious soul. The bullet [from a duel] caused him 'violent pain' on a regular basis, with bouts of blood gurgling into his mouth as well as probable pois…"-Jefferson R. Cowie, Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power
8. Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
By: Jonathan M. Metzl
4.10
Format: 341 pages, Hardcover
A physician reveals how right-wing backlash policies have mortal consequences—even for the white vo… read more
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"It's a narrative about how "whiteness" becomes a formation worth living and dying for, and how, in myriad ways and on multiple levels, white Americans bet their lives on particular sets of meanings a…"-Jonathan M. Metzl, Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
9. Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side
By: Eve L. Ewing
4.39
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
“Failing schools. Underprivileged schools. Just plain bad schools.” That’s how Eve L. Ewing ope… read more
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10. Disillusioned: Five Families and the Unraveling of America's Suburbs
By: Benjamin Herold
3.89
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
Through the stories of five American families, a masterful and timely exploration of how hope, hist… read more
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11. Selling the Dream: The Billion-Dollar Industry Bankrupting Americans
By: Jane Marie
3.78
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Peabody and Emmy Award–winning journalist Jane Marie expands on her popular podcast The Dream to ex… read more
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12. They Came for the Schools: One Town's Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New War for America's Classrooms
By: Mike Hixenbaugh
4.48
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The urgent, revelatory story of how a school board win for the conservative right in one Texas subu… read more
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13. A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door: The Dismantling of Public Education and the Future of School
By: Jack Schneider
4.09
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
A trenchant analysis of how public education is being destroyed in overt and deceptive ways--and ho… read more
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14. How The Other Half Learns: Equality, Excellence, and the Battle Over School Choice
By: Robert Pondiscio
4.31
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
An inside look at America's most controversial charter schools, and the moral and political questio… read more
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15. Rethinking Fandom: How to Beat the Sports-Industrial Complex at Its Own Game
By: Craig Calcaterra
3.99
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
A fundamental reevaluation of how to be a sports fan by an acclaimed baseball writer. Sports fan… read more
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16. Slaying Goliath: The Passionate Resistance to Privatization and the Fight to Save America's Public Schools
By: Diane Ravitch
3.82
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From one of the foremost authorities on education and the history of education in the United States… read more
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17. Schoolhouse Burning: Public Education and the Assault on American Democracy
By: Derek W. Black
4.25
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The full-scale assault on public education threatens not just public education but American democra… read more
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18. Cutting School: The Segrenomics of American Education
By: Noliwe Rooks
4.23
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Public schools are among America's greatest achievements in modern history, yet from the earliest d… read more
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19. The Death of Public School: How Conservatives Won the War Over Education in America
By: Cara Fitzpatrick
3.45
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist shows how conservatives have pushed for a revolution in public … read more
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20. The Education Wars: A Citizen’s Guide and Defense Manual
By: Jennifer Berkshire
4.16
Format: 176 pages, Kindle Edition
A perfectly timed book for the educational resistance—those of us who believe in public schoolsCult… read more
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21. Schooltalk: Rethinking What We Say About and To Students Every Day
By: Mica Pollock
3.83
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
An essential guide to transforming the quotidian communications that feed inequality in our schools… read more
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