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Education
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"The Great Brain Race" [] by Ben Wildavsky
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"The Paedeia Program: An Educational Syllabus" [1982] Essays by The Paedeia Group, Preface & Introduction by Mortimer J. Adler Touchstone Trade 8¾x6 pb [11/84] for $17.95 Scribner 8¼x6¾ hardcover [11/84] out of print/used Scribner hardcover [9/82] out of print/used "Paideia Problems & Possibilities" [1983] by Mortimer J. Adler Scribner 8¼x6½ pb [9/83] out of print/many, many used Collier Macmillan hardcover [9/83] out of print/used |
 | "Reforming Education: The Opening of The American Mind" [1989] by Mortimer J. Adler, Edited by Geraldine Van Doren Collier Macmillan 8x5½ pb [4/90] out of print/used Macmillan 8½x5¾ hardcover [3/89] out of print/many used |
 | "Reforming Education: The Schooling of A People and Their Education Beyond Schooling" [1977] by Mortimer J. Adler, Edited by Geraldine Van Doren Westview Press 9x6 hardcover [5/78] out of print/used |
 | "The Death and Life of The Great American School System: How Testing & Choice Are Undermining Education" [2010] by Diane Ravitch Basic Books pb [DUE Nov 2011] for $10.39 
Basic Books 9½x6½ hardcover [3/2010] for $15.22 |
 | "Saving Alma Mater: A Rescue Plan For America's Public Universities" [2009] by James C. Garland Univ Chicago Press 9x6½ hardcover [10/2009] for $20.08 |
 | "How The University Works: Higher Education and The Low-Wage Nation" [2008] by Marc Bousquet, Foreword by Cary Nelson N.Y.U. Press 9x6 pb [2008] for $20.76 N.Y.U. Press 9x6¼ hardcover [2008] for $23.73 |
 | "Unmaking The Public University: The Forty-Year Assault On The Middle Class" [2008] by Christopher Newfield Harvard Univ Press 9x6 pb [4/2011] for $20.24
Harvard Univ Press 9¼x6 hardcover [5/2008] for $27.31 |
 | "The Marketplace of Ideas: Reform and Resistance In The American University" [2010] by Louis Menand W.W. Norton & Co. 8¼x5½ pb [12/2010] for $10.17 W.W. Norton & Co. 8¼x5½ hardcover [1/2010] for $16.30 |
 | "Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change The Way The World Learns" [2008] by Clayton Christensen, Curtis W. Johnson & Michael B. Horn McGraw-Hill 9x6¼ hardcover [5/2008] for $21.75 Based on principles introduced by Harvard Business School professor Christensen in the bestseller "The Innovator's Dilemma" [1997] |
 | "The Great American University: Its Rise To Preeminence, Its Indispensable National Role, Why It Must be Protected" [2010] by Jonathan R. Cole PublicAffairs Books 9¼x6 hardcover [1/2010] for $23.10 |
 | "College: A Memoir" [1996] by Stephen Akey Orchises Press 7¾x5½ pb [3/96] for $12.95 |
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"In The Basement of The Ivory Tower: Confessions of An  Accidental Academic" [2011] by 'Professor X' Penguin pb [DUE March 2012] for $10.20 Viking Adult 8½x5½ hardcover [3/2011] for $17.13 expanded from a June 2008 article in The Atlantic Magazine |
 | "The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood" [2011] by James Gleick "Gleick sees ... the world as an endlessly unfolding opportunity in which 'creatures of the information' may just recognize themselves." — Jason Kirk Kindle Edition from Random House Digital [3/2011] for $14.99 Pantheon 9¼x6½ hardcover [3/2011] for $16.47 |
 | "Raising The Grade: How High School Reform Can Save Our Youth & Our Nation" [2008] by Bob Wise, former governor of West Virginia Jossey-Bass 9x6¼ hardcover [4/2008] for $21.33 out of print/used |
 | "Not For Profit: Why Democracy Needs The Humanities" [2010] by Martha C. Nussbaum Princeton Univ Press 8½x6 hardcover [5/2010] for $15.61 |
 | "Globish: How The English Language Became The World's Language" [2010] by Robert McCrum Kindle Edition from W.W. Norton & Co. [5/2010] for $14.82 W.W. Norton & Co. 9¼x6 hardcover [5/2010] for $17.79 |
 | "Democracy and Education" [1916 classic] by John Dewey [1859-1952] For Dewey, democracy and education were both the means and end for the building of a good and just progressive society. Digireads 9x6 pb [1/2005] for $9.49 Dover 8½x5½ pb [4/2004] for $10.36 Free Press 8¼x5½ pb [2/97] for $16.95 |
 | "The Higher Learning In America: A Memorandum On The Conduct of Universities By Business Men" [1918] by Thorstein B. Veblen Transaction Publrs pb [11/92] for $24.95 Thorstein B. Veblen [1857-1929] Page at Maison d'Κtre Philosophy Bookstore |
 | "The Goose Step: A Study of American Education" [1923] by Upton Sinclair "a scathing attack on business domination of education" Kessinger 9x6 pb [8/2004] for $25.71 Upton Sinclair [1878-1968] Page at Spirit of America Bookstore |
 | "Experience and Education" [1938 classic] by John Dewey [1859-1952] Late in his career, Dewey wrote this summary of his ideas, that the best, progressive education provides balanced and informed experience for the students. Free Press mass market pb [7/97] for $8.95 Kappa Delta Pi 7½x6 pb [11/98] for $19.99 Peter Smith Publr 7x4¾ hardcover [9/83] for $26.75 |
 | "Personal Knowledge: Towards A Post-Critical Philosophy" [1958] by Michael Polanyi [1891-1976] Polanyi's subjectivistic interpretation of scientific method exemplifies the failure of modern education – his logic is lucid but his conclusions faulty, largely due to his belief that all knowledge is faith-based. DO NOT buy this book!! Polanyi Society at Missouri Western State College |
 | "Teaching As A Subversive Activity" [1969] by Neil Postman & Charles Weingartner A no-holds-barred assault on outdated teaching methods with dramatic & practical proposals on how education can be made relevant to today's world. Delacorte 8½x5½ pb [9/71] for $15.00 Doubleday hardcover [6/69] out of print/used |
 | "Kindergarten Is Too Late !" [1971] by Masaru Ibuka Fireside pb [6/80] out of print/used S&S hardcover [1/77] out of print/used Wikipedia entry for Masaru Ibuka [1908-97], co-founder of Sony Corp. |
 | "The Closing of The American Mind" [1988 bestseller] by Allan Bloom Touchstone 8¼x5¼ pb [5/88] for $14.00 Blackstone UNABR audio [1/93] for $76.95 |
 | "The Story of English" [1989] by Robert McCrum, Robert MacNeil & William Cran Penguin 3rd edition 8x5¼ pb [12/2002] for $11.56 Faber & Faber 8¼x5¼ library hardcover [1989] for $26.00 "The Story of English" TV movie [1986] is below |
 | "Guerrilla Warfare For Teachers: A Survival Guide" [1996] by Evan Keliher Pedagogue Press 9x5½ pb [4/96] for $9.95 |
 | "An Identification, Analysis & Critique of Thorstein B. Veblen's Philosophy of Higher Education" [1998] by Samuel Schneider Edwin Mellen Press 9½x6½ hardcover [4/98] for $109.95 Thorstein B. Veblen [1857-1929] Page at Maison d'Κtre Philosophy Bookstore |
 | "Maybe One: A Case For Smaller Families" [1998] by Bill McKibben Plume 7¾x5¼ pb [6/99] for $17.00 S&S hardcover [6/98] out of print/many used |
 | "The Quiet Crisis: How Higher Education Is Failing America" [2000] by Peter Smith Jossey-Bass/Anker 9x6¼ hardcover [5/2000] for $38.00 |
 | "Out of Our Minds: Learning To Be Creative" [2001] by Sir Ken Robinson Wiley/Capstone 9¼x6¼ pb [6/2001] for $22.02 Capstone pb [4/2001] for £9.72 via Amazon U.K. author's official website |
 | "Fifty Modern Thinkers On Education: From Piaget To The Present Day" [2001] Edited by Joy A. Palmer Routledge 8¼x5½ pb [11/2001] for $26.95 Routledge 8¾x5½ library hardcover [11/2001] for $130.00 [sic] |
 | "Universities In The Marketplace: The Commercialization of Higher Education" [2003] by Derek Curtis Bok {former president of Harvard University} Princeton Univ Press 9¼x6 pb [11/2004] for $11.53 Princeton Univ Press 9¼x6½ hardcover [3/2003] out of print/used |
 | "The Essential 55: An Award-Winning Educator's Rules For Discovering The Successful Student In Every Child" [2003] by Ron Clark [winner Disney Teacher of the Year Award 2001] Hyperion 7.8x5¼ hardcover [5/2003] for $11.97 Hyperion audio CD [10/2003] for $13.99 author website |
 | "City Schools and The American Dream: Reclaiming The Promise of Public Education" [2003] by Pedro Noguera, edited by James A. Banks Teachers College Press 9x6¼ pb [9/2003] for $19.95 Teachers College Press 9½x6¼ hardcover [9/2003] for $50.00 |
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"No Excuses: Closing The Racial Gap In Learning" [2003] by Stephan & Abigail Thernstrom "remorseless lucidity ... trademark thoroughness and empirical rigor" James Traub, Los Angeles Times Book Review S&S 9x6 pb [10/2004] for $10.20 S&S 9½x6½ hardcover [10/2003] for $16.38 |
 | "Stupidity and Tears: Teaching & Learning In Troubled Times" [2004] by Herbert Kohl "Kohl's latest will be required reading for progressive-minded teaching professionals and [is] recommended to everyone else concerned." Publishers Weekly New Press 8¼x5¾ hardcover [1/2004] for $16.07 |
 | "Genius Denied: How To Stop Wasting Our Brightest Young Minds" [2004] by Jan & Bob Davidson, with Laura Vanderkam S&S 8½x5½ pb [3/2005] for $10.40 S&S 8½x5¾ hardcover [4/2004] for $16.32 official booksite |
 | "Seeing Past Z: Imagination In A Fast-Forward World" [2004] by Beth Kephart W.W. Norton 8¼x5¾ hardcover [6/2004] for $16.29 |
 | "No Exit: What Parents Owe Their Children & What Society Owes Parents" [2004] by Anne L. Alstott Oxford Univ Press pb [11/2005] for $18.95 Oxford Univ Press 9½x6½ hardcover [5/2004] for $10.68 author's Harvard Law School faculty homepage |
 | "University, Inc.: The Corporate Corruption of American Higher Education" [2005] by Jennifer Washburn Basic Books 8x5¼ pb [8/2006] for $12.42 Basic Books 9½x6½ hardcover [2/2005] out of prodn/used |
 | "The Shame of The Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling In America" [2005] by Jonathan Kozol winner 2005 Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship Three Rivers Press 8x5¼ pb [8/2006] for $10.17 Crown 9¾x6½ hardcover [9/2005] for $16.50 Random House ABR audio CD [9/2005] for $21.26 |
 | "Learning Power: Organizing For Education & Justice" [2006] by Jeannie Oakes & John Rogers, with Martin Lipton Teachers College Press 9x6½ pb [3/2006] for $19.95 Teachers College Press 9x6½ hardcover [3/2006] for $44.00 |
 | "Gifted Children and Gifted Education: A Handbook For Teachers & Parents" [2006] by Gary A. Davis Great Potential Press 9x5¾ pb [9/2006] for $21.75 |
 | "Two Americas, Two Educations: Funding Quality Schools For All Students" [2006] by Paul F. Cummins Red Hen Press 9x6 pb [11/2006] for $18.95 |
 | "Dewey's Dream: Universities & Democracies In An Age of Education Reform - Civil Society, Public Schools & Democratic Citizenship" [2007] by Lee Benson, Ira Harkavy & John Puckett Temple Univ Press 8x5½ pb [3/2007] for $18.95 Temple Univ Press 8¼x5½ hardcover [3/2007] for $59.50 |
 | "Free For All: Fixing School Food In America" [2010] by Janet Poppendieck Univ CA Press 9x6¼ hardcover [1/2010] for $18.15 |
 | "Saving State U: Fixing Public Higher Education" [2010] by Nancy Folbre New Press 7½x5¼ hardcover [2/2010] for $18.96 |
Education Film Festival
The few films coded here are documentaries about education in America and around the world.
There are many more documentaries and also narrative (drama) films at
Magic Lantern Video & Book Store's Education Film Festival Page [new 8/2011]
 | "We Are The People We've Been Waiting For" [New Moon TV, U.K. 2009] Landmark 90-minute documentary confronts our expectations of what education systems ought to be doing for our children, by exploring the extent to which young people around the world are being failed by education systems created at the time of the Industrial Revolution. Exec produced by David Puttnam; directed by Daryl Goodrich; featuring Richard Branson, Tony Blair, Bill Clinton, Germaine Greer, Sir Ken Robinson & Henry Winkler FREE DVD available at the official website, shipped worldwide !! full credits at IMDb official movie site |
 | "Waiting For Superman" documentary feature [Paramount Vantage Oct 2010] Follows a handful of promising kids through a system that discourages academic growth; an exhaustive review of America's public education and its complex and seemingly unsolvable problems. Co-written & directed by Davis Guggenheim; co-written by Billy Kimball; featuring educators Geoffrey Canada, Michelle Rhee & Bill Strickland, with the Black Family, the Esparza Family & the Hill Family; won Audience Award at Sundance Film Festival DVD/Blu-ray not yet available full credits at IMDb movie entry at Wikipedia official movie site |
"American Teacher" documentary [2011]
Directed by Vanessa Roth; narrated by Matt Damon
full credits at IMDb
official movie site
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