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Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools (Paperback)
by Jonathan Kozol (shelved 108 times as education)
avg rating 4.22 — 4,095 ratings — published 1991
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Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paperback)
by Paulo Freire (shelved 67 times as education)
avg rating 4.29 — 2,773 ratings — published 1967
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The First Days Of School: How To Be An Effective Teacher (Paperback)
by Harry K. Wong (shelved 56 times as education)
avg rating 3.79 — 979 ratings — published 1991
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The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home, Revised and Updated Edition (Hardcover)
by Susan Wise Bauer (shelved 55 times as education)
avg rating 4.31 — 897 ratings — published 1999
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Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling (Paperback)
by John Taylor Gatto (shelved 54 times as education)
avg rating 4.19 — 919 ratings — published 1991
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Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time (Paperback)
by Greg Mortenson (shelved 50 times as education)
avg rating 3.98 — 62,755 ratings — published 2006
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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong (Paperback)
by James W. Loewen (shelved 44 times as education)
avg rating 3.95 — 8,146 ratings — published 1992
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Educating Esme: Diary of a Teacher's First Year (Paperback)
by Esmé Raji Codell (shelved 42 times as education)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,232 ratings — published 1999
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The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America (Paperback)
by Jonathan Kozol (shelved 38 times as education)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,374 ratings — published 2006
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Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire: The Methods and Madness Inside Room 56 (Hardcover)
by Rafe Esquith (shelved 37 times as education)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,137 ratings — published 2007
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Teaching to Transgress (Paperback)
by bell hooks (shelved 35 times as education)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,253 ratings — published 1994
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Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom, Updated Edition (Paperback)
by Lisa Delpit (shelved 31 times as education)
avg rating 4.00 — 407 ratings — published 2006
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How Children Learn (Classics in Child Development)
by John Caldwell Holt (shelved 30 times as education)
avg rating 4.05 — 535 ratings — published 1995
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Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation (Paperback)
by Jonathan Kozol (shelved 30 times as education)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,146 ratings — published 1995
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Teacher Man: A Memoir (Paperback)
by Frank McCourt (shelved 29 times as education)
avg rating 3.57 — 6,762 ratings — published 2005
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Letters to a Young Teacher (Hardcover)
by Jonathan Kozol (shelved 27 times as education)
avg rating 3.64 — 713 ratings — published 2007
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The Closing of the American Mind (Paperback)
by Allan Bloom (shelved 27 times as education)
avg rating 3.56 — 967 ratings — published 1987
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The Essential 55: An Award-winning Educator's Rules for Discovering the Successful Student in Every Child (Paperback)
by Ron Clark (shelved 27 times as education)
avg rating 3.84 — 695 ratings — published 2003
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A Thomas Jefferson Education: Teaching a Generation of Leaders for the Twenty-first Century (Hardcover)
by Oliver Van DeMille (shelved 26 times as education)
avg rating 4.32 — 947 ratings — published 2000
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The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life (Hardcover)
by Parker J. Palmer (shelved 25 times as education)
avg rating 3.92 — 539 ratings — published 1997
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The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them (Paperback)
by Erin Gruwell (shelved 24 times as education)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,469 ratings — published 1999
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Punished by Rewards: The Trouble With Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A'S, Praise, and Other Bribes (Paperback)
by Alfie Kohn (shelved 24 times as education)
avg rating 4.16 — 448 ratings — published 1993
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The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had (Hardcover)
by Susan Wise Bauer (shelved 24 times as education)
avg rating 3.88 — 645 ratings — published 2003
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How Children Fail (Classics in Child Development)
by John Caldwell Holt (shelved 24 times as education)
avg rating 4.21 — 329 ratings — published 1969
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"Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?": A Psychologist Explains the Development of Racial Identity (Paperback)
by Beverly Daniel Tatum (shelved 24 times as education)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,521 ratings — published 1997
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How to Read a Book (Paperback)
by Mortimer J. Adler (shelved 24 times as education)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,157 ratings — published 1972
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Experience And Education (Paperback)
by John Dewey (shelved 23 times as education)
avg rating 3.77 — 352 ratings — published 1963
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Democracy And Education (Paperback)
by John Dewey (shelved 22 times as education)
avg rating 3.84 — 220 ratings — published 1966
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There Are No Shortcuts (Paperback)
by Rafe Esquith (shelved 22 times as education)
avg rating 3.92 — 394 ratings — published 2003
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Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America (Hardcover)
by Paul Tough (Goodreads author) (shelved 21 times as education)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,103 ratings — published 2008
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Teaching With Love and Logic: Taking Control of the Classroom (Paperback)
by Jim Fay (shelved 21 times as education)
avg rating 4.10 — 410 ratings — published 1995
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Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning: An Approach to Distinctively Christian Education (Turning Point Christian Worldview Series)
by Douglas Wilson (Goodreads author) (shelved 21 times as education)
avg rating 4.01 — 135 ratings — published 1991
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Teaching as a Subversive Activity (Paperback)
by Neil Postman (shelved 20 times as education)
avg rating 4.15 — 266 ratings — published 1969
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A Framework for Understanding Poverty (Paperback)
by Ruby K. Payne (shelved 20 times as education)
avg rating 3.79 — 780 ratings — published 1995
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Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls (Paperback)
by Mary Bray Pipher (shelved 20 times as education)
avg rating 3.78 — 5,507 ratings — published 1994
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Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder (Paperback)
by Richard Louv (shelved 20 times as education)
avg rating 3.90 — 3,003 ratings — published 2005
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Multiple Intelligences: New Horizons (Paperback)
by Howard Gardner (shelved 19 times as education)
avg rating 3.91 — 253 ratings — published 1993
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In the Middle: New Understanding About Writing, Reading, and Learning (Workshop Series)
by Nancie Atwell (shelved 19 times as education)
avg rating 4.22 — 232 ratings — published 1998
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The Underground History of American Education: An Intimate Investigation Into the Prison of Modern Schooling (revised edition)
by John Taylor Gatto (shelved 19 times as education)
avg rating 4.29 — 270 ratings — published 2000
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Among Schoolchildren (Paperback)
by Tracy Kidder (shelved 18 times as education)
avg rating 3.82 — 623 ratings — published 1990
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I Read It, but I Don't Get It: Comprehension Strategies for Adolescent Readers (Paperback)
by Cris Tovani (shelved 18 times as education)
avg rating 4.08 — 267 ratings — published 2000
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The Read-Aloud Handbook: Sixth Edition (Read-Aloud Handbook)
by Jim Trelease (shelved 18 times as education)
avg rating 4.52 — 710 ratings — published 1985
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The Abolition of Man (Paperback)
by C.S. Lewis (shelved 17 times as education)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,559 ratings — published 1943
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Emile: Or, On Education (Paperback)
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (shelved 17 times as education)
avg rating 3.63 — 477 ratings — published 1762
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Tested: One American School Struggles to Make the Grade (Hardcover)
by Linda Perlstein (shelved 16 times as education)
avg rating 3.98 — 160 ratings — published 2007
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The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School (Paperback)
by Neil Postman (shelved 16 times as education)
avg rating 3.92 — 328 ratings — published 1995
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Strategies That Work: Teaching Comprehension for Understanding and Engagement (Paperback)
by Stephanie Harvey (shelved 16 times as education)
avg rating 4.43 — 144 ratings — published 2007
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A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future (Paperback)
by Daniel H. Pink (Goodreads author) (shelved 16 times as education)
avg rating 3.88 — 2,799 ratings — published 2005
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What Does it Mean to Be Well-Educated?: And Other Essays on Standards, Grading, and other Follies (Paperback)
by Alfie Kohn (shelved 15 times as education)
avg rating 3.82 — 109 ratings — published 2004
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Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns (Hardcover)
by Clayton M. Christensen (shelved 15 times as education)
avg rating 3.72 — 365 ratings — published 2008
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"The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her
culture. At the beginning of the journey to the next world, one's education and culture can either provide the greatest assistance, or else act as the greatest burden, to the person who has just died."
— Plato (The Republic of Plato)
culture. At the beginning of the journey to the next world, one's education and culture can either provide the greatest assistance, or else act as the greatest burden, to the person who has just died."
— Plato (The Republic of Plato)
"The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know."
— Michel Legrand
— Michel Legrand
