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Spell Albuquerque
Memoir of a "Difficult Student"
$18.95"I'm not like them," Tennessee Reed would tell her teachers to get them to see that the approach they used for students with "normal" brains didn't always work for her. As it turned out, she was...
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Toward a Global Autonomous University
Cognitive Labor, The Production of Knowledge, and Exodus from the Education Factory
$16.95What was once the factory is now the university. We started off with this apparently straightforward affirmation, not in order to assume it but to question it; to open it, radically rethinking it,...
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Love the Questions
University Education and Enlightenment
$14.95What are universities good for? This question has generated intense debate, particularly since the culture wars and Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind. Where radicals once...
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Made in America
Immigrant Students in Our Public Schools
$18.95As the United States reexamines its borders and immigration policies, the debate over educating immigrant students in our public schools has divided Americans. What can teachers and immigrant...
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DIY U
Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education
$14.95The price of college tuition has increased more than any other major good or service for the last twenty years. Nine out of ten American high school seniors aspire to go to college, yet the United...
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Not Written in Stone
Learning and Unlearning American History Through 200 Years of Textbooks
$22.50In this compelling and utterly fresh look at American history, historian Kyle Ward shows how US textbooks from different eras over the past 200 years have described the same historical events in...
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Weapons of Mass Instruction
A Schoolteacher's Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling
$16.95John Taylor Gatto's Weapons of Mass Instruction, now available in paperback, focuses on mechanisms of traditional education that cripple imagination, discourage critical thinking, and create...
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Anarchism and Education
A Philosophical Perspective
$19.95Arguing that the central role of educational practice in anarchist theory and activism has been overlooked by many theorists, this examination of contemporary educational philosophy counters the...
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Educating For Freedom
A Talk By Cindy Milstein
$4.50This talk contributes something new to the existing literature on anarchism and education. It is essentially a synthesis of various anarchist approaches to education, and Cindy links these...
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Everyday Antiracism
Getting Real About Race in School
$24.95Which acts by educators are "racist" and which are "antiracist"? How can an educator constructively discuss complex issues of race with students and colleagues? In Everyday Antiracism...
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