American Education

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    • Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education
    • By: Joel Spring
    • Narrated by: Robert G. Slade
    • Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Featuring current information and challenging perspectives on the latest issues and forces shaping the American educational system, with scholarship that is often cited as a primary source, the author introduces listeners to the historical, political, social, and legal foundations....

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    • The Decline, The Deception, The Dogmas
    • By: Thomas Sowell
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 12-07-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 303 ratings
    • An indictment of the American educational system criticizes the fact that the system has discarded the traditional goals of transmitting knowledge and fostering cognitive skills in favor of building self-esteem and promoting social harmony....

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    • How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
    • By: Jonathan Haidt, Greg Lukianoff
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Haidt
    • Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 09-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 12,655 ratings
    • A timely investigation into the new "safety culture" on campus and the dangers it poses to free speech, mental health, education, and ultimately democracy....

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    • Third Edition
    • By: John R. Thelin
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 21 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 12-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • Colleges and universities are among the most cherished - and controversial - institutions in the United States. In this updated edition of A History of American Higher Education, John R. Thelin offers welcome perspective on the triumphs and crises of this highly influential sector....

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    • Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
    • By: James W. Loewen
    • Narrated by: Brian Keeler
    • Length: 14 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 06-18-04
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2,993 ratings
    • This national best seller is an entertaining, informative, and sometimes shocking expose of the way history is taught to American students....

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    • The New Culture of Sex on Campus
    • By: Lisa Wade
    • Narrated by: Callie Beaulieu
    • Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 01-10-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 120 ratings
    • The hookup is now part of college life. Yet the drunken encounter we always hear about tells only a fraction of the story....

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    • By: Mz. Lady P
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 01-27-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 970 ratings
    • Meet Kateevah Knight! A beautiful BBW who is living life on her terms. Her life path will change drastically when she agrees to a one-night stand ...

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    • How Racial Inequality Thrives in Good Schools
    • By: Amanda E. Lewis, John B. Diamond
    • Narrated by: David Sadzin
    • Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • On the surface, Riverview High School looks like the post-racial ideal. Yet Riverview has not escaped the same unrelenting question: why is it that even when all of the circumstances seem right, black and Latino students continue to lag behind their peers? Find out....

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    • By: David Hackett Fischer
    • Narrated by: Nelson Runger
    • Length: 18 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 05-12-04
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,102 ratings
    • This New York Times best seller is a thrilling account of one of the most pivotal moments in United States history....

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    • How Corporate Cash Bought American Higher Education
    • By: Joshua Hunt
    • Narrated by: Chris Andrew Ciulla
    • Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 02-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • In this dramatic exposé, journalist Joshua Hunt reveals how the University of Oregon sold its soul to Nike, and what that means for the future of our public institutions and our society....

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    • The Tumultuous Election of 1800
    • By: John Ferling
    • Narrated by: Jack Garrett
    • Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 10-06-04
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 297 ratings
    • Award-winning author John Ferling is a leading authority on the American Revolution....

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    • By: Evan S. Connell
    • Narrated by: Adrian Cronauer
    • Length: 20 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 11-18-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 326 ratings
    • This national best-seller vividly reconstructs one of the most unbelievable and controversial battles in American military history—General Custer’s Last Stand in 1876....

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    • American Girl History Mysteries
    • By: Kathryn Reiss
    • Narrated by: Ruth Ann Phimister
    • Length: 4 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 11-02-05
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • It's 1878 and Ida Deming and her papa are looking forward to meeting his mail-order bride....

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    • By: Leonard N. Moore
    • Narrated by: Thaїs Bass-Moore
    • Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 06-21-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
    • With Teaching Black History to White People, which is “part memoir, part Black history, part pedagogy, and part how-to guide”, Moore delivers an accessible and engaging primer on the Black experience in America....

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    • How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education
    • By: Diane Ravitch
    • Narrated by: Eliza Foss
    • Length: 14 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 03-05-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 171 ratings
    • America's foremost historian of education renounces her support for reform policies implemented over the past decade that she says are wrecking America's cherished tradition of public education....

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    • Going to School with a Thousand Kids
    • By: Nicholson Baker
    • Narrated by: Tom Zingarelli
    • Length: 22 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 10-25-16
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • In 2014, after a brief orientation course and a few fingerprinting sessions, Nicholson Baker became an on-call substitute teacher in a Maine public school district....

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    • The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U. S. Marshal
    • By: Vaunda Nelson
    • Narrated by: Kevin Free
    • Length: 25 mins
    • Release date: 12-01-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 39 ratings
    • Vaunda Micheaux Nelson received the Coretta Scott King Award for her children’s book Almost to Freedom....

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    • By: Carter Goodwin Woodson
    • Narrated by: Anthony Stewart
    • Length: 3 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 07-14-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,834 ratings
    • An unapologetic look into the factors that have caused so many Blacks to think and act in the negative way they do towards themselves and others....

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