5 Top teaching books like Social Studies for a Better World: An Anti-oppressive Approach for Elementary Educators (Equity and Social Justice in Education) by Noreen Naseem Rodriguez

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Social Studies for a Better World: An Anti-oppressive Approach for Elementary Educators (Equity and Social Justice in Education)

By: Noreen Naseem Rodriguez

4.33

Format: 233 pages, Paperback

In the wake of 2020, we need today’s young learners to be prepared to develop solutions to a host o…

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1. The Crossover

By: Kwame Alexander

4.24

Format: 245 pages, ebook

"With a bolt of lightning on my kicks . . .The court is SIZZLING. My sweat is DRIZZLING. Stop all t… read more

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"Basketball Rule #5 When you stop playing your game you've already lost."

-Kwame Alexander, The Crossover

"He's no longer listening to music, but his tears are loud enough to dance to."

-Kwame Alexander, The Crossover

"Basketball Rule #4 If you miss enough of life's free throws you will pay in the end."

-Kwame Alexander, The Crossover

"Silence doesn't mean we have run out of things to say, only that we are trying not to say them."

-Kwame Alexander, The Crossover

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2. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War

By: Steve Sheinkin

3.00

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

From Steve Sheinkin, the award-winning author of The Port Chicago 50 and Bomb comes a tense, exciti… read more

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3. How I Became a Ghost

By: Tim Tingle

4.31

Format: 517 pages, Hardcover

Told in the words of Isaac, a Choctaw boy who does not survive the Trail of Tears, HOW I BECAME A G… read more

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4. The Devil's Highway: A True Story

By: Luis Alberto Urrea

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

The author of "Across the Wire" offers brilliant investigative reporting of what went wrong when, i… read more

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5. Troublemakers: Lessons in Freedom from Young Children at School

By: None

2.97

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this dazzling debut, Carla Shalaby, a former elementary school teacher, explores the everyday li… read more

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6. When My Name Was Keoko

By: Linda Sue Park

3.20

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Sun-hee and her older brother Tae-yul are proud of their Korean heritage. Yet they live their lives… read more

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7. Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism

By: Rachel Maddow

4.45

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Rachel Maddow traces the fight to preserve American democracy back to World War II, when a handful … read more

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"One big appeal of fascism, if nothing else, was its unapologetic embrace of cruelty. Cruelty towards others, coupled with hypersensitivity towards any slight to oneself."

-Rachel Maddow, Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism

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8. Attack of the Black Rectangles

By: Amy Sarig King

4.21

Format: 258 pages, Hardcover

When Mac first opens his classroom copy of Jane Yolen's The Devil's Arithmetic and finds some words… read more

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"Why do they treat kids like we don't mean anything?"

-Amy Sarig King, Attack of the Black Rectangles

"If you're comfortable learning history, it's the wrong history."

-Amy Sarig King, Attack of the Black Rectangles

"I love banned books. I used to read as many to you as I could when you were little, Mac."

-Amy Sarig King, Attack of the Black Rectangles

"But if we want to change the world so it's good for everyone, it's important to talk about the truth."

-Amy Sarig King, Attack of the Black Rectangles

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9. Tread of Angels

By: Rebecca Roanhorse

3.48

Format: 201 pages, Hardcover

Celeste, a card sharp with a penchant for trouble, takes on the role of advocatus diaboli, to defen… read more

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"He’s playing some kind of game. One I haven’t quite unraveled yet. But I know a man looking to cheat when I see one, and Ibrahim is as sharp as they come. But he’s underestimated me, Mariel. Underest…"

-Rebecca Roanhorse, Tread of Angels

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10. We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom

By: Bettina L. Love

4.54

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

Drawing on personal stories, research, and historical events, an esteemed educator offers a vision … read more

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"When you understand how these theories function, when they become your North Star, you understand why progress is so hard and why survival is a constant struggle. Theories are more than just academic…"

-Bettina L. Love, We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom

"The four major testing companies—Pearson Education, Educational Testing Service, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and McGraw Hill—make $2 billion a year in revenue while spending $20 million a year lobbyin…"

-Bettina L. Love, We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom

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11. Harbor Me

By: Jacqueline Woodson

4.21

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Jacqueline Woodson's first middle-grade novel since National Book Award winner Brown Girl Dreaming … read more

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12. 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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13. White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy

By: Thomas F. Schaller

3.82

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A searing portrait and damning takedown of America’s proudest citizens — who are also the least lik… read more

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14. Say You'll Be Mine

By: Naina Kumar

3.81

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

In this utterly charming debut romance, a teacher with big dreams joins forces with a no-nonsense e… read more

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15. Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal

By: Bettina L. Love

4.41

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

“I am an eighties baby who grew to hate school. I never fully understood why. Until now. Until Bett… read more

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16. Cultivating Genius: An Equity Framework for Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy

By: Gholdy Muhammad

4.45

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

In Cultivating Genius, Dr. Gholdy E. Muhammad presents a four-layered equity framework—one that is … read more

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"As long as oppression is present in the world, young people need pedagogy that nurtures criticality."

-Gholdy Muhammad, Cultivating Genius: An Equity Framework for Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy

"Perhaps the people who need criticality the most become those who share identities with the greatest oppressors of the world."

-Gholdy Muhammad, Cultivating Genius: An Equity Framework for Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy

"We live in a period where there's no time for "urgent-free pedagogy." Our instructional pursuits must be honest, bold, raw, unapologetic, and responsive to the social times."

-Gholdy Muhammad, Cultivating Genius: An Equity Framework for Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy

"The need to agitate for criticality historically spoke to the social unrest at the time, and I argue that the need to agitate is still necessary and pressing in classrooms today."

-Gholdy Muhammad, Cultivating Genius: An Equity Framework for Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy

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17. Never Caught, the Story of Ona Judge: George and Martha Washington's Courageous Slave Who Dared to Run Away; Young Readers Edition

By: Erica Armstrong Dunbar

3.98

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The story of Ona Judge, George and Martha Washington’s runaway slave, who risked everything for a b… read more

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"As Burwell prattles on, Ona finds her resolve. When he finally finishes speaking, she looks him straight in the eyes. Her response is final, and fierce. "I am free now and choose to remain so."

-Erica Armstrong Dunbar, Never Caught, the Story of Ona Judge: George and Martha Washington's Courageous Slave Who Dared to Run Away; Young Readers Edition

"When asked if she was sorry to have left the Washingtons, particularly because her life had been so difficult and sorrow-filled since she'd escaped to New Hampshire, she replied with strength and the…"

-Erica Armstrong Dunbar, Never Caught, the Story of Ona Judge: George and Martha Washington's Courageous Slave Who Dared to Run Away; Young Readers Edition

"Worse yet, human nature was allowed no outlet in the motional life of the enslaved. There was no acceptable place for the range of human emotions. If you were angry, you had to swallow your rage. If …"

-Erica Armstrong Dunbar, Never Caught, the Story of Ona Judge: George and Martha Washington's Courageous Slave Who Dared to Run Away; Young Readers Edition

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18. School Moms: Parent Activism, Partisan Politics, and the Battle for Public Education

By: Laura Pappano

3.91

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

An on-the-ground look at the rise of parent activism in response to the far-right attacks on public… read more

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19. Four Weekends and a Funeral

By: Ellie Palmer

3.86

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

A tender, laugh-out-loud debut romance about a woman who ends up in over her head after a little wh… read more

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20. How to Change Everything: The Young Human's Guide to Protecting the Planet and Each Other

By: Naomi Klein

3.90

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

“[A] uniquely inclusive perspective that will inspire conviction, passion, and action.” — Kirkus Re… read more

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"The world does not have enough resources and energy to give everyone a life of consumer luxury. We could, though, improve everyone's uality of life in different ways."

-Naomi Klein, How to Change Everything: The Young Human's Guide to Protecting the Planet and Each Other

"We need to build a society around the understanding that well-being for all matters more than economic growth. Only then can we truly move away from climate0changing pollution and climate injustice."

-Naomi Klein, How to Change Everything: The Young Human's Guide to Protecting the Planet and Each Other

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21. Social Studies for a Better World: An Anti-oppressive Approach for Elementary Educators (Equity and Social Justice in Education)

By: Noreen Naseem Rodriguez

4.33

Format: 233 pages, Paperback

In the wake of 2020, we need today’s young learners to be prepared to develop solutions to a host o… read more

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Bettina L. Love

4.54

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Eve L. Ewing

4.39

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Bettina L. Love

4.41

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4.45

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Kenneth C. Davis

4.08

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Karina Yan Glaser

4.58

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Karina Yan Glaser

4.29

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Amina Luqman-Dawson

4.18

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