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  • Education Is Freedom: The Future Is in Your Hands

    In this book, author James Keyes explores the ways education empowers people to take control of their lives, to pursue their dreams, and to contribute to the world in meaningful and fulfilling ways. He provides a roadmap to the “why,” “what,” and “how” of learning. The book outlines the importance of education for all mankind, the power of education to change our world, and the wisdom to unlock ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Radical Possibilities

    Public Policy, Urban Education, and A New Social Movement

    by Jean Anyon ...
    Series series Critical Social Thought
    The core argument of Jean Anyon’s classic Radical Possibilities is deceptively simple: if we do not direct our attention to the ways in which federal and metropolitan policies maintain the poverty that plagues communities in American cities, urban school reform as currently conceived is doomed to fail. With every chapter thoroughly revised and updated, this edition picks up where the 2005 ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • America's Public Philosopher

    Essays on Social Justice, Economics, Education, and the Future of Democracy

    by John Dewey ...
    John Dewey was America’s greatest public philosopher. His work stands out for its remarkable breadth, and his deep commitment to democracy led him to courageous progressive stances on issues such as war, civil liberties, and racial, class, and gender inequalities. This book collects the clearest and most powerful of his public writings and shows how they continue to speak to the challenges we face ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Helping Children Cope with Loss and Change

    A Guide for Professionals and Parents

    Whether it’s the grief of bereavement, the strain of divorce or the uncertainty of a new home or school, loss and change affect children in countless ways. Nevertheless, teachers and parents frequently find themselves ill-equipped to help children struggling with the difficult feelings that these situations, and others like them, bring. Helping Children Cope with Loss and Change offers guided ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • What Teachers Make

    In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World

    by Taylor Mali ...
    In praise of the greatest job in the world...The right book at the right time: an impassioned defense of teachers and why we need them now more than ever.Teacher turned teacher’s advocate Taylor Mali inspired millions with his original poem “What Teachers Make,” a passionate and unforgettable response to a rich man at a dinner party who sneeringly asked him what teachers make. Mali’s sharp, funny, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Witness

    Lessons from Elie Wiesel's Classroom

    by Ariel Burger ...
    In the vein of Tuesdays with Morrie, a devoted student and friend of Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Elie Wiesel invites readers to witness one of the world's greatest thinkers in his own classroom in this instructive and deeply moving read, a National Jewish Book Award–winner. The world remembers Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) as a Nobel laureate, activist, and author of more than ... Read more

    $13.49 USD

  • Witnessing Whiteness

    The Journey into Racial Awareness and Antiracist Action

    Witnessing Whiteness offers a comprehensive and empathetic exploration of what white people experience when learning about race, why it is so confusing, how whiteness works in their lives, and how to act against racism. The author combines authentic storytelling, nuanced analysis, and compelling voices from a collection of cross-race guides to lead readers through a self-reflective process that ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Linguistic Justice

    Black Language, Literacy, Identity, and Pedagogy

    Series series NCTE-Routledge Research Series
    Bringing together theory, research, and practice to dismantle Anti-Black Linguistic Racism and white linguistic supremacy, this book provides ethnographic snapshots of how Black students navigate and negotiate their linguistic and racial identities across multiple contexts. By highlighting the counterstories of Black students, Baker-Bell demonstrates how traditional approaches to language ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • The Trouble with Boys

    A Surprising Report Card on Our Sons, Their Problems at School, and What Parentsand Educators Must Do

    by Peg Tyre ...
    From the moment they step into the classroom, boys begin to struggle. They get expelled from preschool nearly five times more often than girls; in elementary school, they’re diagnosed with learning disorders four times as often. By eighth grade huge numbers are reading below basic level. And by high school, they’re heavily outnumbered in AP classes and, save for the realm of athletics, show ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Teaching To Transgress

    by Bell Hooks ...
    In Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks-writer, teacher, and insurgent black intellectual-writes about a new kind of education, education as the practice of freedom. Teaching students to "transgress" against racial, sexual, and class boundaries in order to achieve the gift of freedom is, for hooks, the teacher's most important goal.bell hooks speaks to the heart of education today: how can we ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Bourdieu and Higher Education

    Life in the Modern University

    This book introduces Bourdieu in the context of higher education for unfamiliar readers or those who would like to see his theories applied in the higher education setting. It builds upon research into higher education leadership and administration to examine how the university sector has changed over recent decades and how it has been reshaped into its current form.The book draws together various ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • A Pedagogy of Responsibility

    Wendell Berry for EcoJustice Education

    Drawing on the theories of author and conservationist Wendell Berry for the field of EcoJustice Education, this book articulates a pedagogy of responsibility as a three-pronged approach grounded in the recognition that our planet balances an essential and fragile interdependence between all living creatures. Examining the deep cultural roots of social and ecological problems perpetuated by schools ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • The Lost Tools of Learning

    Dorothy L Sayers also wrote this book: The Mind of the Maker. Which is available for sale through CrossReach Publications.Please see the description for this title below. But first...Our promise: All of our works are complete and unabridged. As with all our titles, we have endeavoured to bring you modern editions of classic works. This work is not a scan, but is a completely digitized and updated ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Reader, Come Home

    The Reading Brain in a Digital World

    by Maryanne Wolf ...
    The author of the acclaimed Proust and the Squid follows up with a lively, ambitious, and deeply informative book that considers the future of the reading brain and our capacity for critical thinking, empathy, and reflection as we become increasingly dependent on digital technologies.A decade ago, Maryanne Wolf’s Proust and the Squid revealed what we know about how the brain learns to read and how ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Excellent Sheep

    The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life

    A groundbreaking manifesto about what our nation’s top schools should be—but aren’t—providing: “The ex-Yale professor effectively skewers elite colleges, their brainy but soulless students (those ‘sheep’), pushy parents, and admissions mayhem” (People).As a professor at Yale, William Deresiewicz saw something that troubled him deeply. His students, some of the nation’s brightest minds, were adrift ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Myth of the Spoiled Child

    Challenging the Conventional Wisdom about Children and Parenting

    by Alfie Kohn ...
    Somehow, a set of deeply conservative assumptions about children -- what they're like and how they should be raised -- have congealed into the conventional wisdom in our society. Parents are accused of being both permissive and overprotective, unwilling to set limits and afraid to let their kids fail. Young people, meanwhile, are routinely described as entitled and narcissistic . . . among other ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Privileged Poor

    How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students

    An NPR Favorite Book of the Year“Breaks new ground on social and educational questions of great import.”—Washington Post“An essential work, humane and candid, that challenges and expands our understanding of the lives of contemporary college students.”—Paul Tough, author of Helping Children Succeed“Eye-opening…Brings home the pain and reality of on-campus poverty and puts the blame squarely on ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Character Compass

    How Powerful School Culture Can Point Students Toward Success

    by Scott Seider ...
    **2013 American Educational Research Association's (AERA) Moral Development and Education Outstanding Book AwardIn Character Compass, Scott Seider offers portraits of three high-performing urban schools in Boston, Massachusetts that have made character development central to their mission of supporting student success, yet define character in three very different ways.**One school focuses on ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Rethinking Freire and Illich

    Historical, Philosophical, and Theological Perspectives

    Marking the fiftieth anniversary of two of the most influential books in modern educational and social theory, Rethinking Freire and Illich introduces readers to the results of the symposium of Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed and Ivan Illich’s Deschooling Society. The collection uniquely analyses Freire and Illich together, although not in a comparative way. It acknowledges that both ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • The Music History Classroom

    Edited by James A. Davis ...
    The Music History Classroom brings together essays written by recognized and experienced teachers to assist in the design, implementation, and revision of college-level music history courses. This includes the traditional music history survey for music majors, but the materials presented here are applicable to other music history courses for music majors and general education students alike, ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Meditations

    Such is the system which underlies the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius. Some knowledge of it is necessary to the right understanding of the book, but for us the chief interest lies elsewhere. We do not come to Marcus Aurelius for a treatise on Stoicism. He is no head of a school to lay down a body of doctrine for students; he does not even contemplate that others should read what he writes. His ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • A Moral Case for Play in K-12 Schools

    The Urgency of Advancing Moral Ecologies of Play

    In A Moral Case for Play: The Urgency of Advancing Moral Ecologies of Play in K-12 Schools, Levingston argues that schools must make room for character-building play because of its essential role in moral development. He utilizes field-based research, including interviews and observations from hallways, classrooms, playgrounds and lunchrooms at Catholic, Jewish, Progressive, Quaker, single-gender, ... Read more

    $85.99 USD

  • The Power of Journaling

    POWER

    by Peter Meng ...
    Series series POWER
    The power of journaling is a timeless tool for self-improvement, and Mencius, also known as Mengzi, was one of the most prominent Confucian philosophers who understood the importance of self-reflection and self-improvement.In this book, we will explore Mengzi's teachings on self-cultivation and education, and how they can be applied to modern journaling practices. We will delve into the benefits ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Paper Belt on Fire

    How Renegade Investors Sparked a Revolt Against the University

    Written by a successful venture capitalist (and university dropout), this book is part memoir, part guide for the next generation of innovators who seek an alternative to the traditional path in higher education.“Part adventure tale, part manifesto, Paper Belt on Fire is a battle cry for anyone who ever dreamed of wresting power back from corrupt institutions—or of nailing the truth to the ... Read more

    $24.99 USD