Education Reform
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The Case Against Education
- Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money
- Written by: Bryan Caplan
- Narrated by: Allan Robertson
- Length: 11 hrs
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Despite being immensely popular - and immensely lucrative - education is grossly overrated. In this explosive book, Bryan Caplan argues that the primary function of education is not to enhance students' skill but to certify their intelligence, work ethic, and conformity - in other words, to signal the qualities of a good employee.
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Education - Individual Experience May Vary
- By Abhou on 2020-12-29
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The Case Against Education
- Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money
- Narrated by: Allan Robertson
- Length: 11 hrs
- Release date: 2018-05-01
- Language: English
- Despite being immensely popular - and immensely lucrative - education is grossly overrated....
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How Children Learn (50th anniversary edition)
- Written by: John Holt
- Narrated by: Matt Kugler
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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This enduring classic of educational thought offers teachers and parents deep, original insight into the nature of early learning. John Holt was the first to make clear that, for small children, "learning is as natural as breathing." In this delightful yet profound book, he looks at...
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Life changing
- By jessica on 2018-10-21
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How Children Learn (50th anniversary edition)
- Narrated by: Matt Kugler
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 2017-08-08
- Language: English
- This enduring classic of educational thought offers teachers and parents deep, original insight into the nature of early learning. John Holt was the first to make clear that, for small children, "learning is as natural as breathing." In this delightful yet profound book, he looks at...
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Why Knowledge Matters
- Rescuing Our Children from Failed Educational Theories
- Written by: E. D. Hirsch Jr.
- Narrated by: BJ Harrison
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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E. D. Hirsch, author of The Knowledge Deficit, draws on recent findings in neuroscience and data from France to provide new evidence for the argument that a carefully planned, knowledge-based elementary curriculum is essential to providing the foundations for children's life success and ensuring equal opportunity for students of all backgrounds. In the absence of a clear, common curriculum, Hirsch contends that tests are reduced to measuring skills rather than content, and that students from disadvantaged backgrounds cannot develop the knowledge base to support high achievement.
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Why Knowledge Matters
- Rescuing Our Children from Failed Educational Theories
- Narrated by: BJ Harrison
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 2021-04-27
- Language: English
- E. D. Hirsch, author of The Knowledge Deficit, draws on recent findings in neuroscience and data from France to provide new evidence for the argument that a carefully planned, knowledge-based elementary curriculum is essential to providing the foundations for children's life success and ensuring...
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The Education Myth
- How Human Capital Trumped Social Democracy (Histories of American Education)
- Written by: Jon Shelton
- Narrated by: Keith McCarthy
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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The Education Myth questions the idea that education represents the best, if not the only, way for Americans to access economic opportunity. As Jon Shelton shows, linking education to economic well-being was not politically inevitable. In the 18th and 19th centuries, for instance, public education was championed as a way to help citizens learn how to participate in a democracy. By the 1930s, public education, along with union rights and social security, formed an important component of a broad-based fight for social democracy.
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The Education Myth
- How Human Capital Trumped Social Democracy (Histories of American Education)
- Narrated by: Keith McCarthy
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 2023-03-07
- Language: English
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The Education Myth questions the idea that education represents the best, if not the only, way for Americans to access economic opportunity. As Jon Shelton shows, linking education to economic well-being was not politically inevitable....
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The Fantasy Economy
- Neoliberalism, Inequality, and the Education Reform Movement
- Written by: Neil Kraus
- Narrated by: Todd Curless
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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The Fantasy Economy challenges the basic assumptions of the education reform movement of the last few decades. Kraus insists that education cannot control the labor market and unreliable corporate narratives fuel this misinformation. Moreover, misguided public policies, such as accountability and school choice, along with an emphasis on workforce development and STEM over broad-based liberal arts education, have only produced greater inequality.
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The Fantasy Economy
- Neoliberalism, Inequality, and the Education Reform Movement
- Narrated by: Todd Curless
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 2024-06-20
- Language: English
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The Fantasy Economy challenges the basic assumptions of the education reform movement of the last few decades.
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One Nation Under Taught
- Solving America's Science, Technology, Engineering & Math Crisis
- Written by: Dr. Vince M. Bertram
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 2 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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America has been steadily sliding in global education rankings for decades. In particular, our students are increasingly unable to compete globally in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) fields. According to the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP), in 2010 only 26 percent of high school seniors in the U.S. scored at or above proficient level in math. Another 36 percent were failing.
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Good info, but too prone to sale a product.
- By Amazon Customer on 2019-04-30
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One Nation Under Taught
- Solving America's Science, Technology, Engineering & Math Crisis
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 2 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 2015-01-07
- Language: English
- America has been steadily sliding in global education rankings for decades. In particular, our students are increasingly unable to compete globally in STEM fields....
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We Want to Do More Than Survive
- Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom
- Written by: Bettina Love
- Narrated by: Misty Monroe
- Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
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Winner of the 2020 Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book Award Drawing on personal stories, research, and historical events, an esteemed educator offers a vision of educational justice inspired by the rebellious spirit and methods of abolitionists. Drawing on her life’s work of...
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We Want to Do More Than Survive
- Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom
- Narrated by: Misty Monroe
- Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 2019-02-19
- Language: English
- Winner of the 2020 Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book Award Drawing on personal stories, research, and historical events, an esteemed educator offers a vision of educational justice inspired by the rebellious spirit and methods of abolitionists. Drawing on her life’s work of...
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Mastery
- Why Deeper Learning Is Essential in an Age of Distraction
- Written by: Tony Wagner, Ulrik Juul Christensen M.D. M.D.
- Narrated by: Graham Winton
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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A radical new approach to education for learners of any age How much information is forgotten almost immediately after it is taught? How many students graduate from high school unprepared for careers where lifelong learning is essential to succeed? These problems stem from an educational system...
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Mastery
- Why Deeper Learning Is Essential in an Age of Distraction
- Narrated by: Graham Winton
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 2025-09-16
- Language: English
- A radical new approach to education for learners of any age How much information is forgotten almost immediately after it is taught? How many students graduate from high school unprepared for careers where lifelong learning is essential to succeed? These problems stem from an educational system...
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Not for Profit
- Why Democracy Needs the Humanities
- Written by: Martha C. Nussbaum
- Narrated by: Tamara Marston
- Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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In this short and powerful book, celebrated philosopher Martha Nussbaum makes a passionate case for the importance of the liberal arts at all levels of education. Historically, the humanities have been central to education because they have been seen as essential for creating competent democratic citizens. But recently, Nussbaum argues, thinking about the aims of education has gone disturbingly awry in the United States and abroad.
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Not for Profit
- Why Democracy Needs the Humanities
- Narrated by: Tamara Marston
- Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 2016-03-04
- Language: English
- In this short and powerful book, celebrated philosopher Martha Nussbaum makes a passionate case for the importance of the liberal arts at all levels of education....
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"Prisons Make Us Safer"
- And 20 Other Myths about Mass Incarceration
- Written by: Victoria Law
- Narrated by: Melissa Moran
- Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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An accessible guide for activists, educators, and all who are interested in understanding how the prison system oppresses communities and harms individuals. The United States incarcerates more of its residents than any other nation. Though home to 5% of the global population, the United States...
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"Prisons Make Us Safer"
- And 20 Other Myths about Mass Incarceration
- Narrated by: Melissa Moran
- Series: Myths Made in America
- Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 2021-04-06
- Language: English
- An accessible guide for activists, educators, and all who are interested in understanding how the prison system oppresses communities and harms individuals. The United States incarcerates more of its residents than any other nation. Though home to 5% of the global population, the United States...
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Blended Learning in Action
- A Practical Guide Toward Sustainable Change
- Written by: Catlin R. Tucker, Tiffany Wycoff, Jason T. Green
- Narrated by: Cindy Kay
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Blended learning has the power to reinvent education, but the transition requires a new approach to learning and a new skillset for educators. Loaded with research and examples, Blended Learning in Action demonstrates the advantages a blended model has over traditional instruction when technology is used to engage students both inside the classroom and online.
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Blended Learning in Action
- A Practical Guide Toward Sustainable Change
- Narrated by: Cindy Kay
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 2023-01-26
- Language: English
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Blended learning has the power to reinvent education, but the transition requires a new approach to learning and a new skillset for educators....
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Stop the School Bus
- Getting Education Reform Back on Track
- Written by: Gerald N. Tirozzi
- Narrated by: Mark Whitten
- Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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From one of the largest organizations of public school principals, this book exposes many misguided school-reform initiatives that are negatively impacting students and educators across the country, and recommends ways to make them more effective. Veteran educator Gerald Tirozzi addresses all the hottest school reform trends including: charter schools, teacher merit pay, Race to the Top, Common Core State Standards, and more.
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Stop the School Bus
- Getting Education Reform Back on Track
- Narrated by: Mark Whitten
- Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 2020-07-17
- Language: English
- How to put school reform initiatives back on track From one of the largest organizations of public school principals, this book exposes many misguided school-reform initiatives that are negatively impacting students and educators across the country, and recommends ways to make them more...
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No Struggle No Progress
- A Warrior's Life from Black Power to Education Reform
- Written by: Howard Fuller, Lisa Frazier Page
- Narrated by: Howard Fuller
- Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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This book tells the story of one man's life journey into the heart of the struggle to reform the nation's schools. Fuller has always believed that it is important for poor and working class Black people to gain access to the levers of power dictating their lives. He believes that those of us who are educated and resourceful have a moral and historical responsibility to help them, and that is what he has always tried to do. Early in his life he found truth in the words of the great Frederick Douglass: "Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will."
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No Struggle No Progress
- A Warrior's Life from Black Power to Education Reform
- Narrated by: Howard Fuller
- Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 2019-09-09
- Language: English
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This book tells the story of one man's life journey into the heart of the struggle to reform the nation's schools. Fuller has always believed that it is important for poor and working class Black people to gain access to the levers of power dictating their lives....
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The Choice We Face
- How Segregation, Race, and Power Have Shaped America's Most Controversial Education Reform Movement
- Written by: Jon Hale
- Narrated by: Wolf Williams
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
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A comprehensive history of school choice in the US, from its birth in the 1950s as the most effective weapon to oppose integration to its lasting impact in reshaping the public education system today. Most Americans today see school choice as their inalienable right. In The Choice We Face...
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The Choice We Face
- How Segregation, Race, and Power Have Shaped America's Most Controversial Education Reform Movement
- Narrated by: Wolf Williams
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 2021-08-10
- Language: English
- A comprehensive history of school choice in the US, from its birth in the 1950s as the most effective weapon to oppose integration to its lasting impact in reshaping the public education system today. Most Americans today see school choice as their inalienable right. In The Choice We Face...
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In Defense of a Liberal Education
- Written by: Fareed Zakaria
- Narrated by: Fareed Zakaria
- Length: 3 hrs and 45 mins
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The liberal arts educational system is under attack. Governors in Texas, Florida, and North Carolina have announced that they will not spend taxpayer money subsidizing the liberal arts. Majors like English and history - which were once very popular and highly respected - are in steep decline, and President Obama has recently advised students to keep in mind that technical training could be more valuable than a degree in art history when deciding on an educational path.
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In Defense of a Liberal Education
- Narrated by: Fareed Zakaria
- Length: 3 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 2015-03-30
- Language: English
- New York Times best-selling author of The Post-American World and host of CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS argues for a renewed commitment to the world's most valuable educational traditions in this fascinating audiobook. The liberal arts educational system is under attack. Governors in Texas, Florida...
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The Future of Tutoring
- Lessons from 10,000 School District Tutoring Initiatives
- Written by: Liz Cohen
- Narrated by: Judy A Steffen
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
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Public education isn’t a sector known for quick change, but the COVID-19 pandemic turned schools into labs of innovation nationwide. By the pandemic’s end, a remarkable number of K-12 classrooms had come to embrace tutoring, particularly “high-impact tutoring” and its adaptable design. In The Future of Tutoring, Liz Cohen looks back at a unique revolution and finds that, with effective buy-in and thoughtful implementation, tutoring programs can improve academic performance for all students.
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The Future of Tutoring
- Lessons from 10,000 School District Tutoring Initiatives
- Narrated by: Judy A Steffen
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 2026-04-22
- Language: English
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The inspiring story of the high-impact tutoring movement and its revitalization of the post-pandemic classroom.
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Don't Sniff the Glue
- A Teacher's Misadventures in Education Reform
- Written by: Dawn Casey-Rowe
- Narrated by: Dawn Casey-Rowe
- Length: 2 hrs and 59 mins
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I went into teaching to change the world. Instead, my students changed me. These are some of my stories. I tell them at a time when education's gone from being a noble pursuit to the epicenter of a national storm. Good teachers are leaving the field at staggering rates. Politicians and pundits are out in full force. Everyone has something to say about education - everyone except the students and teachers in the classroom.
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Don't Sniff the Glue
- A Teacher's Misadventures in Education Reform
- Narrated by: Dawn Casey-Rowe
- Length: 2 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 2015-11-09
- Language: English
- I went into teaching to change the world. Instead, my students changed me. These are some of my stories...
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The Abundant University
- Remaking Higher Education for a Digital World
- Written by: Michael D. Smith
- Narrated by: Bill Anciaux
- Length: 5 hrs and 34 mins
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Why our current system of higher education is financially and morally unsustainable and how to address the crisis with the creative implementation of digital technologies. For too long, our system of higher education has been defined by scarcity: scarcity in enrollment, scarcity in instruction, and scarcity in credentials. In addition to failing students professionally, this system has exacerbated social injustice and socioeconomic stratification across the globe.
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The Abundant University
- Remaking Higher Education for a Digital World
- Narrated by: Bill Anciaux
- Length: 5 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 2023-10-04
- Language: English
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Why our current system of higher education is financially and morally unsustainable and how to address the crisis with the creative implementation of digital technologies....
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The Parent Revolution
- Rescuing Your Kids from the Radicals Ruining Our Schools
- Written by: Corey A. DeAngelis Ph.D Ph.D
- Narrated by: Chris Abell
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
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From the leader of the online army in America's parental rights movement comes the real story of how moms and dads across the country are turning the tide against radical activists in public schools. It’s no secret that our government-run public education system has held generations of...
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The Parent Revolution
- Rescuing Your Kids from the Radicals Ruining Our Schools
- Narrated by: Chris Abell
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 2024-05-14
- Language: English
- From the leader of the online army in America's parental rights movement comes the real story of how moms and dads across the country are turning the tide against radical activists in public schools. It’s no secret that our government-run public education system has held generations of...
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The Power of a Plant
- A Teacher's Odyssey to Grow Healthy Minds and Schools
- Written by: Stephen Ritz, Suzie Boss
- Narrated by: Stephen Ritz
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
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In The Power of a Plant, globally acclaimed teacher and self-proclaimed CEO (Chief Eternal Optimist) Stephen Ritz shows you how, in one of the nation's poorest communities, his students thrive in school and in life by growing, cooking, eating, and sharing the bounty of their green classroom.
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The Power of a Plant
- A Teacher's Odyssey to Grow Healthy Minds and Schools
- Narrated by: Stephen Ritz
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 2017-11-28
- Language: English
- Teacher Stephen Ritz shows you how, in one of the nation's poorest communities, his students thrive by growing, cooking, eating, and sharing the bounty of their green classroom....
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