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  1. Dumbing Us Down

    by John Taylor Gatto

    This radical treatise on public education has been a New Society Publishers' bestseller for 10 years! Thirty years of award-winning teaching in New York City's public schools led John Gatto to the sad conclusion that compulsory governmental schooling does little but teach young people to... (learn more about this book)

  2. The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School

    by Neil Postman

    Postman suggests that the current crisis in our educational system derives from its failure to supply students with a translucent, unifying "narrative" like those that inspired earlier generations. Instead, today's schools promote the false "gods" of economic utility, consumerism, or ethnic... (learn more about this book)

  3. The Language Police

    by Diane Ravitch

    If you’re an actress or a coed just trying to do a man-size job , a yes-man who turns a deaf ear to some sob sister , an heiress aboard her yacht , or a bookworm enjoying a boy’s night out , Diane Ravitch’s internationally acclaimed The Language Police has bad news for you:... (learn more about this book)

  4. Catching Up or Leading the Way

    by Yong Zhao

    At a time when globalization and technology are dramatically altering the world we live in, is education reform in the United States headed down the right path? Are schools emphasizing the knowledge and skills that students need in a global society--or are they actually undermining their... (learn more about this book)

  5. What Does it Mean to Be Well-Educated?: And Other Essays on Standards, Grading, and other Follies

    by Alfie Kohn

    Few writers ask us to question our fundamental assumptions about education as provocatively as Alfie Kohn. Time magazine has called him "perhaps the country"s most outspoken critic of education"s fixation on grades <and> test scores." And the Washington Post says he is "the most... (learn more about this book)

  6. Ghost Girl: A Blue Ridge Mountain Story

    by Delia Ray

    Eleven-year-old April Sloane has never set foot in a school before, and now that President Hoover and his wife are building a one-room schoolhouse in the hollow of the Blue Ridge Mountains where April lives, she is eager to attend it. But these are the Depression years, and Mama, who has been... (learn more about this book)

  7. A Different Kind of Teacher: Solving the Crisis of American Schooling

    by John Taylor Gatto

    In 1991, shortly after receiving both the New York State and New York City Teacher of the Year Awards, John Gatto resigned to begin a new career as an education reform advocate. In this collection of 16 essays, Gatto analyzes the problems of American education and suggests solutions for... (learn more about this book)

  8. Teachers As Cultural Workers: Letters to Those Who Dare Teach (Edge, Critical Studies in Educational Theory)

    by Paulo Freire

    In Teachers as Cultural Workers , Freire speaks directly to teachers about the lessons learned from a lifetime of experience as an educator and social theorist. Freire’s words challenge all who teach to reflect critically on the meaning of the act of teaching as well as the meaning of... (learn more about this book)

  9. How Lincoln Learned to Read: Twelve Great Americans and the Educations That Made Them

    by Daniel Wolff, Daniel Wolff

    An engaging, provocative history of American ideas, told through the educations (both in and out of school) of twelve great figures, from Benjamin Franklin to Elvis Presley. How Lincoln Learned to Read tells the American story from a fresh and unique perspective: how do we learn what we... (learn more about this book)

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