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Teaching With Love and Logic: Taking Control of the Classroom
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The Unschooled Mind: How Children Think and How Schools Should Teach
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Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong
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The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School
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Inside American Education
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All Kids Are Our Kids: What Communities Must Do to Raise Caring and Responsible Children and Adolescents
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Understanding Homosexuality, Changing Schools
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Knocking at Our Own Door
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The Economics of Education: Human Capital, Family Background and Inequality
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The Creation Controversy: Science or Scripture in the Schools
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Boston Against Busing: Race, Class, and Ethnicity in the 1960s and 1970s
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The Gatekeepers: Inside the Admissions Process of a Premier College
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Radical Equations: Civil Rights from Mississippi to the Algebra Project
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The Myth of Laziness
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Sustainability on Campus: Stories and Strategies for Change (Urban and Industrial Environments)
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Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America
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The Youth Gang Problem: A Community Approach
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Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns
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School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Your Handbook for Action
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Class and Schools: Using Social, Economic, and Educational Reform to Close the Black-White Achievement Gap
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Policy Studies for Educational Leaders: An Introduction (3rd Edition)
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Child's Prey (Pinnacle True Crime)
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Organizational Behavior in Education: Adaptive Leadership and School Reform
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Getting Started: Reculturing Schools to Become Professional Learning Communities
Getting Started: Reculturing Schools to Become Professional Learning Communities
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The Shaping of American Higher Education: Emergence and Growth of the Contemporary System
The Shaping of American Higher Education: Emergence and Growth of the Contemporary System
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Change Leadership: A Practical Guide to Transforming Our Schools (Jossey-Bass Education)
Change Leadership: A Practical Guide to Transforming Our Schools (Jossey-Bass Education)
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The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn
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Diane Ravitch

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Seeking Common Ground: Public Schools in a Diverse Society
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Results Now: How We Can Achieve Unprecedented Improvements in Teaching And Learning
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No Excuses: Closing the Racial Gap in Learning
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The Fall of the Faculty: The Rise of the All-Administrative University and Why it Matters
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The Making of Americans: Democracy and Our Schools
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The Moral Imperative of School Leadership
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Educational Policy and the Law
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Schools That Work: Where All Children Read and Write
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Democratic Schools: Lessons in Powerful Education
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Education

Real Education: Four Simple Truths for Bringing American Schools Back to Reality
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A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form
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The Knowledge Deficit: Closing the Shocking Education Gap for American Children
The Knowledge Deficit: Closing the Shocking Education Gap for American Children
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Visible Learning: A synthesis of over 800 meta-analyses relating to achievement
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Young, Gifted, and Black: Promoting High Achievement Among African American Students
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The Case for Classical Christian Education
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What's Math Got to Do with It?: Helping Children Learn to Love Their Least Favorite Subject--and Why It's Important for America
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Illiberal Education: The Politics of Race and Sex on Campus
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Children Who Are Not Yet Peaceful: Preventing Exclusion in the Early Elementary Classroom
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Tinkering toward Utopia: A Century of Public School Reform
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The Homework Myth
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Montessori Madness! A Parent to Parent Argument for Montessori Education
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A Different Kind of Teacher: Solving the Crisis of American Schooling
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Fires in the Middle School Bathroom: Advice to Teachers from Middle Schoolers
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Focus: Elevating the Essentials to Radically Improve Student Learning
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The Price of Admission
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Education & Reference

Revisiting Professional Learning Communities at Work: New Insights for Improving Schools
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NEA: Trojan Horse in American Education
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The Little Book of Restorative Discipline for Schools: Teaching Responsibility; Creating Caring Climates (The Little Books of Justice and Peacebuilding ... Little Books of Justice and Peacebuilding)
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The Curriculum Studies Reader
The Curriculum Studies Reader

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Instruction for All Students
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Data Analysis for Continuous School Improvement
Data Analysis for Continuous School Improvement
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Life-Enriching Education: Nonviolent Communication Helps Schools Improve Performance, Reduce Conflict, and Enhance Relationships
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Developing and Administering a Child Care and Education Program
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Leading Change in Your School: How to Conquer Myths, Build Commitment, and Get Results
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Left Back: A Century of Failed School Reforms
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What to Look for in a Classroom: And Other Essays
What to Look for in a Classroom: And Other Essays
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There Are No Shortcuts
There Are No Shortcuts
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Ideology and Curriculum
Ideology and Curriculum
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The Case Against Standardized Testing: Raising the Scores, Ruining the Schools
The Case Against Standardized Testing: Raising the Scores, Ruining the Schools
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The Quality School
The Quality School
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Educating Children With Autism
Educating Children With Autism
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The School and Community Relations
The School and Community Relations
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The Teaching Gap: Best Ideas from the World's Teachers for Improving Education in the Classroom
The Teaching Gap: Best Ideas from the World's Teachers for Improving Education in the Classroom
James Hiebert

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Education Theory

The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education
The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education
Diane Ravitch

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Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling
Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling
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Learning by Doing: A Handbook for Professional Learning Communities at Work
Learning by Doing: A Handbook for Professional Learning Communities at Work
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"Multiplication Is for White People": Raising Expectations for Other People's Children
"Multiplication Is for White People": Raising Expectations for Other People's Children
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The Trivium: The Liberal Arts of Logic, Grammar, and Rhetoric
The Trivium: The Liberal Arts of Logic, Grammar, and Rhetoric
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The Shame Of The Nation: The Restoration Of Apartheid Schooling In America
The Shame Of The Nation: The Restoration Of Apartheid Schooling In America
Jonathan Kozol

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Summerhill: A Radical Approach to Childrearing
Summerhill: A Radical Approach to Childrearing
A.S. Neill

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The Schools We Need: And Why We Don't Have Them
The Schools We Need: And Why We Don't Have Them
E.D. Hirsch Jr.

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Teaching as a Subversive Activity
Teaching as a Subversive Activity
Neil Postman

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The Skin That We Speak: Thoughts on Language and Culture in the Classroom
The Skin That We Speak: Thoughts on Language and Culture in the Classroom
Lisa Delpit

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The Schools Our Children Deserve: Moving Beyond Traditional Classrooms and "Tougher Standards"
The Schools Our Children Deserve: Moving Beyond Traditional Classrooms and "Tougher Standards"
Alfie Kohn

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Everyday Antiracism: Getting Real About Race in School
Everyday Antiracism: Getting Real About Race in School
Mica Pollock

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Unschooling Rules: 55 Ways to Unlearn What We Know about Schools and Rediscover Education
Unschooling Rules: 55 Ways to Unlearn What We Know about Schools and Rediscover Education
Clark Aldrich

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Beyond the Bake Sale: The Essential Guide to Family/School Partnerships
Beyond the Bake Sale: The Essential Guide to Family/School Partnerships
Carl L. Marburger

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No Easy Answers: The Truth Behind Death at Columbine
No Easy Answers: The Truth Behind Death at Columbine
Brooks Brown

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An Ethic of Excellence: Building a Culture of Craftsmanship in Schools
An Ethic of Excellence: Building a Culture of Craftsmanship in Schools
Ron Berger

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On MisEducation
On MisEducation
Noam Chomsky

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Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities
Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities
Martha C. Nussbaum

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The Bully, the Bullied, and the Bystander: From Preschool to High School--How Parents and Teachers Can Help Break the Cycle of Violence
The Bully, the Bullied, and the Bystander: From Preschool to High School--How Parents and Teachers Can Help Break the Cycle of Violence
Barbara Coloroso

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SuperVision and Instructional Leadership: A Developmental Approach
SuperVision and Instructional Leadership: A Developmental Approach
Stephen P. Gordon

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Schools & Teaching

Best Practices in Literacy Instruction
Best Practices in Literacy Instruction
Linda B. Gambrell

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The Third Teacher: 79 Ways You Can Use Design to Transform Teaching & Learning
The Third Teacher: 79 Ways You Can Use Design to Transform Teaching & Learning
Bruce Mau Design

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Studio Thinking: The Real Benefits of Visual Arts Education
Studio Thinking: The Real Benefits of Visual Arts Education
Ellen Winner

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Top 20 Teachers: The Revolution in American Education
Top 20 Teachers: The Revolution in American Education
Tom Cody

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Professional Learning Communities at Work: Best Practices for Enhancing Student Achievement
Professional Learning Communities at Work: Best Practices for Enhancing Student Achievement
Richard DuFour

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Action Research: An Educational Leader's Guide to School Improvement
Action Research: An Educational Leader's Guide to School Improvement
Jeffrey G. Glanz

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The 90% Reading Goal
The 90% Reading Goal
Nancy Kerr

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How to Survive in Your Native Land (Innovators in Education)
How to Survive in Your Native Land (Innovators in Education)
James Herndon

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Norms and Nobility
Norms and Nobility
David V. Hicks

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Radical Unschooling - A Revolution Has Begun
Radical Unschooling - A Revolution Has Begun
Dayna Martin

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Why Didn't I Learn This in College?
Why Didn't I Learn This in College?
Paula Rutherford

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The Power of Protocols: An Educator's Guide to Better Practice (The Series on School Reform)
The Power of Protocols: An Educator's Guide to Better Practice (The Series on School Reform)
Alan Dichter

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One Day, All Children: The Unlikely Triumph of Teach for America and What I Learned Along the Way
One Day, All Children: The Unlikely Triumph of Teach for America and What I Learned Along the Way
Wendy Kopp

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Becoming a Literacy Leader: Supporting Learning And Change
Becoming a Literacy Leader: Supporting Learning And Change
Jennifer Allen

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Christian Teachers in Public Schools : A Guide for Teachers, Administrators, and Parents
Christian Teachers in Public Schools : A Guide for Teachers, Administrators, and Parents
Gloria Goris Stronks

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Democratic Education (Princeton Paperbacks)
Democratic Education (Princeton Paperbacks)
Amy Gutmann

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What Do I Do Monday? (Innovators in Education)
What Do I Do Monday? (Innovators in Education)
John C. Holt

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Tomorrow's Children: A Blueprint for Partnership Education in the 21st Century
Tomorrow's Children: A Blueprint for Partnership Education in the 21st Century
Riane Eisler

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The Manufactured Crisis: Myths, Fraud, and the Attack on America's Public Schools
The Manufactured Crisis: Myths, Fraud, and the Attack on America's Public Schools
Bruce J. Biddle

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Whose America?: Culture Wars in the Public Schools
Whose America?: Culture Wars in the Public Schools
Jonathan Zimmerman

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The common theme among these books is a critical analysis of the American education system and its flaws, with proposals for reform and improvement. Many of the books focus on specific issues within education such as homework, math education, bullying, racism, and testing. Others offer guides for educators and parents to improve student learning and create positive classroom environments. The importance of classical education is also explored in some of the books. Overall, these books aim to challenge traditional approaches to education and promote critical thinking about how we can better educate our children.

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