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Deschooling Society

Ivan Illich

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Schools don't educate. They certify. Illich proves it.

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Dumbing Us Down

John Taylor Gatto

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NYC Teacher of the Year quit. Here's what school actually teaches.

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Free to Learn

Peter Gray

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Children are designed to learn through play. School keeps interrupting.

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How Children Fail

John Holt

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Children don't fail school. School fails children. Here's the proof.

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How Children Learn

John Holt

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Children are born knowing how to learn. Here's what that looks like.

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Impro for Storytellers

Keith Johnstone

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Make it up. Mean it anyway.

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Lies My Teacher Told Me

James W. Loewen

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History class—now with honesty.

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Lifelong Kindergarten

Mitchel Resnick

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Kindergarten works. Stop graduating out of it.

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Pedagogy of Hope

Paulo Freire

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The revolution’s still in session.

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Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Paulo Freire

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Classroom meets liberation front.

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Privilege: The Making of an Adolescent Elite at St. Paul’s School

Shamus Khan

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Prep school as power factory.

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Punished by Rewards

Alfie Kohn

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Rewards and punishments are the same problem. Here's the evidence.

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Schoolhouse Burning

Derek W. Black

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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

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Not a few bad men. A system that works.

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Stamped (for Kids)

Jason Reynolds & Ibram X. Kendi

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Unlearning racism, one page at a time.

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Summerhill School

A.S. Neill

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A school where kids choose everything. Open since 1921.

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Teaching Community

bell hooks

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Where care and critique co-conspire.

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Teaching Critical Thinking

bell hooks

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Brain > algorithm.

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Teaching as a Subversive Activity

Neil Postman & Charles Weingartner

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Education should produce crap detectors. Here's how.

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Teaching to Transgress

bell hooks

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Break the rules. Bring the kids.

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The Dreamkeepers

Gloria Ladson-Billings

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Eight teachers who refused to write Black kids off. Here's how.

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The Having of Wonderful Ideas

Eleanor Duckworth

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The having of wonderful ideas. That's the whole point of education.

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The Losers Club

Andrew Clements

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He loves reading. He hates reading club. He starts his own.

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The Phantom Tollbooth

Norton Juster

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

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