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http://www.amazon.com/Death-Great-American-School-System/dp/0465014917/
http://www.amazon.com/Saving-Alma-Mater-Americas-Universities/dp/0226283860/
http://www.amazon.com/University-Inc-Corporate-Corruption-Education/dp/0465090524/
http://www.amazon.com/How-University-Works-Education-Low-Wage/dp/0814799752/
http://www.amazon.com/Unmaking-Public-University-Forty-Year-Assault/dp/0674028171/
http://www.amazon.com/Disrupting-Class-Disruptive-Innovation-Change/dp/0071592067/
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"Saving State U: Fixing Public Higher Education" [2010]  by Nancy Folbre New Press 7½x5¼ hardcover [2/2010] for $18.96 |
 | "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 |
 | "Free For All: Fixing School Food In America" [2010] by Janet Poppendieck Univ CA Press 9x6¼ hardcover [1/2010] for $18.15 |
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"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" [B.B.C./P.B.S. aired Sept-Nov 1986] Nine-episode miniseries directed by William Cran; written by Robert MacNeil & Robert McCrum; narrated by Robert MacNeil; won Emmy Award for Best Writing DVD/Blu-ray not available; Homevision color VHS [9/2001] 5 tapes - out of prodn/used series credits at IMDb |
 | "We Are The People We've Been Waiting For" [New Moon TV, U.K. 2009] This landmark 90-minute documentary confronts our expectations of what education systems ought to be achieving for our children, by exploring the extent to which young people around the world are being failed by an education system 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 |
 | "Stupidity" [Téléfilm Canada 2003] Co-produced & directed by Albert Nerenberg; extras include uncut interviews with Noam Chomsky, Giancarlo Livraghi, Bill Maher, director Albert Nerenberg, Avital Ronell & director Joel Schumacher Disinformation color DVD [7/2006] for $17.99 full credits at IMDb • official movie site |
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"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 |
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"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 |
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"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 |
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"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 |
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"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 |
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"University, Inc.: The Corporate Corruption of American Higher Education" [2005] by Jennifer Washburn Basic Books 8x5¼ pb [8/2006] for $12.71 Basic Books 9½x6½ hardcover [2/2005] for $18.98 |
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"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 |
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"Seeing Past Z: Imagination In A Fast-Forward World" [2004] by Beth Kephart W.W. Norton 8¼x5¾ hardcover [6/2004] for $16.29 |
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"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 |
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"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 |
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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 |
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"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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"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 |
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"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 |
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"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] |
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"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 |
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"The Quiet Crisis: How Higher Education Is Failing America" [2000] by Peter Smith Jossey-Bass/Anker 9x6¼ hardcover [5/2000] for $38.00 |
 | "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 |
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"Guerrilla Warfare For Teachers: A Survival Guide" [1996] by Evan Keliher Pedagogue Press 9x5½ pb [4/96] for $9.95 |
 | "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 |
 | "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. |
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"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 |
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"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 |
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"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 |
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"The Goose Step: A Study of American Education" [1923] by Upton Sinclair [1878-1968] "a scathing attack on business domination of education" Kessinger 9x6 pb [8/2004] for $25.71 |
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"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 |
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"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 |
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