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The list Books about education includes
Seven Myths about Education, Experience and Education (book), Paulo Freire: The Man from Recife, The Shame of the Nation and Of the Conduct of the Understanding.
The list consists of 129 members
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How the West Indian Child Is Made Educationally Sub-normal in the British School System
1971 book on racism and inequality in British education
Overview: How the West Indian Child Is Made Educationally Sub-normal in the British School System: The Scandal of the Black Child in Schools in Britain is a non-fiction book by Grenadian author Bernard Coard pu ...
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Dumbing Us Down
book by John Taylor Gatto
Overview: Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling (ISBN 086571231X) is a non-fiction book written by American teacher and political communitarian John Taylor Gatto. It has sold over 200,000 ... 0
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Monkey Girl
book by Edward Humes
Overview: Monkey Girl: Evolution, Education, Religion, and the Battle for America's Soul is a 2007 non-fiction book about the Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District trial of 2005. Author Edward Humes, a Pulitzer ... 0
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Reading Lolita in Tehran
2003 book by Azar Nafisi
Overview: Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books is a book by Iranian author and professor Azar Nafisi. Published in 2003, it was on the New York Times bestseller list for over one hundred weeks and has been ... 0
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Stuart Shanker
Canadian academicOverview: Stuart G. Shanker DPhil, (born October 14, 1952), is a Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy and Psychology at York University. He is an acclaimed author and international speaker. Some of Sh ...Date of birth: 14 October 1952Age: 72 0
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6.Overview: Scholars of Faith: South Asian Muslim Women and the Embodiment of Religious Knowledge is a Book written by Usha Sanyal and published by Oxford University Press on 5 July 2020. It cover the ground report ... 0
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Johnny's Such a Bright Boy, what a Shame He's Retarded
1977 book by Kate Long
Overview: Johnny's Such a Bright Boy, what a Shame He's Retarded: In Support of Mainstreaming in Public Schools is a 1977 fictionalized psychology book by Kate Long, advocating for the implementation of develop ... 0
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Ungrading
Book by Susan D. Blum
Overview: Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and What to Do Instead) is a book on grading in education edited by Susan D. Blum, a professor of anthropology at the University of Notre Dame. The book ... 0
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These Precious Days
2021 essay collection by Ann Patchett
Overview: These Precious Days is a 2021 essay collection by American writer Ann Patchett. It received “rave” reviews and became a New York Times best seller. 0
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Anna, die Schule und der liebe Gott
2013 non-fiction book by Richard David Precht
Overview: Anna, die Schule und der liebe Gott: Der Verrat des Bildungssystems an unseren Kindern (Anna, the school and the good Lord: The education system's betrayal of our children) is a non-fiction book written ... 0
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The Case Against Education
2018 book by Bryan CaplanOverview: The Case Against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money is a book written by libertarian economist Bryan Caplan and published in 2018 by Princeton University Press. Drawing on ... 0
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Why Johnny Can't Read
1955 nonfiction book by Rudolf FleschOverview: Why Johnny Can't Read—And What You Can Do About It is a 1955 book-length exposé on American reading education by Rudolf Flesch. It was an immediate bestseller for 37 weeks and became an educational cause ... 0
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Paulo Freire: The Man from Recife
book by James D. Kirylo
Overview: Paulo Freire: The Man from Recife is a 2011 biography of the Brazilian educator and philosopher Paulo Freire written by James D. Kirylo. 0
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Of the Conduct of the Understanding
book by John Locke
Overview: Of the Conduct of the Understanding is a text on clear and rational thought by John Locke, published in 1706, two years after the author's death, as part of Peter King's Posthumous Works of John Locke ... 0
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Savage Inequalities
book by Jonathan Kozol
Overview: Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools is a book written by Jonathan Kozol in 1991 that discusses the disparities in education between schools of different classes and races. It is based on ... 0
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The Erosion of Childhood
1982 book
Overview: The Erosion of Childhood is a 1992 book about early childhood schooling in the United States by Valerie Polakow Suransky. It is based on a study of five nursery and preschools across social class lines ... 0
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Heresy, Yes–Conspiracy, No
practical 20th-century philosophical book on Communism in schoolingOverview: Heresy, Yes—Conspiracy, No was a 283-page anti-communist book by New York University philosophy professor Sidney Hook, which John Day Company, published in May 1953, about conflicts between support for ... 0
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Punished by Rewards
1993 book
Overview: Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes is a 1993 book by Alfie Kohn that argues against the use of rewards to incentivize behavior. 0
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Our Children Are Dying
1968 book by Nat Hentoff
Overview: Our Children Are Dying is a book-length extended portrait of Elliott Shapiro, the experimental principal of P.S. 119 in Harlem, New York, written by Nat Hentoff and published by Viking Press in 1966. 0
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The Lives of Children
book by George Dennison
Overview: The Lives of Children is a book by George Dennison about the First Street School, a small, alternative mini-school on the Lower East Side of New York City. The school had no administrators, four teachers ... 0
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