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…
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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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- teaching
- nonfiction
- education
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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. Collaborating with the Enemy: How to Work with People You Don't Agree with or Like or Trust
By: Adam Kahane
3.13
Format: 111 pages, Paperback
Collaborating with the Enemy How to Work with People You Don't Agree with or Like or Trust We're tr… read more
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3. Experience and Education
By: John Dewey
3.99
Format: 273 pages, Paperback
Experience and Educationis the best concise statement on education ever published by John Dewey, th… read more
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4. 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
5. How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
By: Daniel Immerwahr
4.46
Format: 513 pages, Hardcover
A pathbreaking history of the United States' overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empir… read more
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"At various times, inhabitants of the U.S. Empire have been shot, shelled, starved, interned, dispossessed, tortured, and experimented on. What they haven't been, by and large, is seen."-Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
"Hoover’s greatest challenge was one of the least visible: the humble screw thread. Screws, nuts, and bolts are universal fasteners. They function in industrial societies, as one writer put it, like s…"-Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
6. What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds
By: Jennifer Ackerman
4.16
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An instant New York Times bestseller! From the author of The Genius of Birds and The Bird Way, a… read more
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7. Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That's a Good Thing)
By: Salman Khan
3.74
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the founder of Khan Academy, the first book written for general audiences on the AI revolution… read more
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- parenting
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- audiobook
8. The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83¼ Years Old
By: Hendrik Groen
3.94
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
A #1 international bestseller in the vein of Fredrik Bachman's A Man Called Ove: an irresistible, f… read more
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9. It’s Hard for Me to Live with Me
By: Rex Chapman
4.12
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A powerful memoir from the University of Kentucky basketball legend, NBA veteran, and social media … read more
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10. 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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- nonfiction
- education
- audiobook
11. The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession
By: Alexandra Robbins
4.19
Format: 372 pages, Hardcover
The hit national bestseller - a New York Times Spring Nonfiction Pick, USA Today "Hottest New Book… read more
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"Teachers deserve a well-defined, realistic job description and enough protected school day planning time to fulfill that job within their paid contracted hours."-Alexandra Robbins, The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession
"Teachers deserve to helm every committee determining school operations rather than policymakers who proclaim what should happen in the classroom despite never having taught in one."-Alexandra Robbins, The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession
"Teachers deserve a safe working environment in which violence is not tolerated from students, parents, or staff, and educators can report it and other transgressions without fear of retaliation."-Alexandra Robbins, The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession
"By the fall of 2021, schools across the country had lost a staggering number of teachers, paraeducators, substitutes, bus drivers, and other staff who quit, retired early, got sick, or died because o…"-Alexandra Robbins, The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession
12. Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes Through Indigenous Science
By: Jessica Hernandez
3.81
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
An Indigenous environmental scientist breaks down why western conservationism isn’t working–and off… read more
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- history
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13. Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics, Grades K-12: 14 Teaching Practices for Enhancing Learning (Corwin Mathematics Series)
By: Peter Liljedahl
4.57
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
Sparked by observing teachers struggle to implement rich mathematics tasks to engage students in de… read more
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- parenting
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- education
14. Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor
By: Kim Kelly
4.20
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A 2022 New Yorker Best Book of the Year A 2022 Esquire Best Nonfiction Book of the Year A 2022 Buzz… read more
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15. 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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- nonfiction
- social issues
- education
- sociology
- audiobook
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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- social issues
- education
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17. The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI
By: Ray Kurzweil
3.93
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The noted inventor and futurist’s successor to his landmark book The Singularity Is Near explor… read more
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18. 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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19. What It Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World
By: Prentis Hemphill
4.54
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From one of the most prominent voices in the trauma conversation comes a groundbreaking new way to … read more
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20. Made for You
By: Jenna Satterthwaite
3.74
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Hi. My name is Julia. I’m a Synth. And I’m here to find love… Synthetic woman Julia Walden was d… read more
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21. World Class: Purpose, Passion, and the Pursuit of Greatness On and Off the Field
By: Grant Wahl
4.52
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The definitive collection of beloved late journalist Grant Wahl’s work, and a masterclass in the ar… read more
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