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26 books
Deschooling Society
Ivan Illich

Schools don't educate. They certify. Illich proves it.
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Dumbing Us Down
John Taylor Gatto

NYC Teacher of the Year quit. Here's what school actually teaches.
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Free to Learn
Peter Gray

Children are designed to learn through play. School keeps interrupting.
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How Children Fail
John Holt

Children don't fail school. School fails children. Here's the proof.
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How Children Learn
John Holt

Children are born knowing how to learn. Here's what that looks like.
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Impro for Storytellers
Keith Johnstone

Make it up. Mean it anyway.
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Lies My Teacher Told Me
James W. Loewen

History class—now with honesty.
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Lifelong Kindergarten
Mitchel Resnick

Kindergarten works. Stop graduating out of it.
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Pedagogy of Hope
Paulo Freire

The revolution’s still in session.
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Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Paulo Freire

Classroom meets liberation front.
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Privilege: The Making of an Adolescent Elite at St. Paul’s School
Shamus Khan

Prep school as power factory.
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Punished by Rewards
Alfie Kohn

Rewards and punishments are the same problem. Here's the evidence.
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Schoolhouse Burning
Derek W. Black

Public schools are the backbone of democracy.
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Sexual Citizens: A Landmark Study of Sex, Power, and Assault on Campus
Jennifer S. Hirsch & Shamus Khan

Not a few bad men. A system that works.
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Stamped (for Kids)
Jason Reynolds & Ibram X. Kendi

Unlearning racism, one page at a time.
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Summerhill School
A.S. Neill

A school where kids choose everything. Open since 1921.
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Teaching Community
bell hooks

Where care and critique co-conspire.
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Teaching Critical Thinking
bell hooks

Brain > algorithm.
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Teaching as a Subversive Activity
Neil Postman & Charles Weingartner

Education should produce crap detectors. Here's how.
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Teaching to Transgress
bell hooks

Break the rules. Bring the kids.
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The Dreamkeepers
Gloria Ladson-Billings

Eight teachers who refused to write Black kids off. Here's how.
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The Having of Wonderful Ideas
Eleanor Duckworth

The having of wonderful ideas. That's the whole point of education.
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The Losers Club
Andrew Clements

He loves reading. He hates reading club. He starts his own.
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The Phantom Tollbooth
Norton Juster

A bored boy drives through a tollbooth. The other side is worth it.
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