Social Reform

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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 310 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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    • On (Not) Getting By in America
    • By: Barbara Ehrenreich
    • Narrated by: Cristine McMurdo-Wallis
    • Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 08-13-04
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1,575 ratings
    • This engrossing piece of undercover reportage has been a fixture on the New York Times best seller list since its publication....

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    • The Science Behind the Genius
    • By: Angeline Stoll Lillard
    • Narrated by: Chelsea Stephens
    • Length: 19 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 12-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • One hundred and ten years ago, Maria Montessori, the first female physician in Italy, devised a very different method of educating children, based on her observations of how they naturally learn....

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    • The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict
    • By: Erica Chenoweth, Maria J. Stephan
    • Narrated by: Traci Odom
    • Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 02-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
    • From 1900 to 2006, campaigns of nonviolent resistance were more than twice as effective as their violent counterparts in achieving their stated goals. Authors Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan detail the factors enabling such campaigns to succeed and, sometimes, causing them to fail....

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    • Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California
    • By: Ruth Wilson Gilmore
    • Narrated by: Machelle Williams
    • Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 06-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • Since 1980, the number of people in US prisons has increased more than 450 percent. Golden Gulag provides the first detailed explanation for that prison buildup by looking at how political and economic forces conjoined to produce the prison boom....

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    • The Quest to Remake the American High School
    • By: Jal Mehta, Sarah Fine
    • Narrated by: Adam Lofbomm
    • Length: 16 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 12-24-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • The first panoramic study of American public high schools since the 1980s, In Search of Deeper Learning lays out a new vision for American education - one that will set the agenda for schools of the future....

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    • By: E.D. Hirsch Jr.
    • Narrated by: Anna Fields
    • Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 12-15-05
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 95 ratings
    • Our school practices have severely curtailed their ability, and desire, to learn....

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    • The Life Sentence of Darryl Hunt
    • By: Phoebe Zerwick
    • Narrated by: Sean Crisden
    • Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • In June 1985, a young Black man named Darryl Hunt was falsely convicted and sentenced to life in prison for the rape and murder of a white copyeditor at the local paper....

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    • How an Upstart Urban University Rewrote the Rules of a Broken System
    • By: Andrew Gumbel
    • Narrated by: Leon Nixon
    • Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 01-26-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Won't Lose This Dream describes how the architects of Georgia State's success harnessed the power of evolving data technologies, a "moneyball" strategy that helped them recognize and remove the obstacles that have held poor students back....

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    • How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite
    • By: Daniel Markovits
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 14 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 432 ratings
    • A revolutionary new argument from eminent Yale Law professor Daniel Markovits attacking the false promise of meritocracy....

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    • By: Jen Calonita
    • Narrated by: Kristin Condon
    • Series: Fairy Tale Reform School, Book 2
    • Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 03-01-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 117 ratings
    • Gilly must face the most evil villain of all in the second installment of this twisted fairy tale series....

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    • By: Adam B. Cox, Cristina M. Rodriguez
    • Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann
    • Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 12-29-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Adam B. Cox and Cristina M. Rodriguez chronicle the untold story of how, over the course of two centuries, the President became our immigration policymaker-in-chief, and provide a blueprint for reform, one that accepts rather than laments the role the President plays....

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    • Ideological Origins of Political Struggles
    • By: Thomas Sowell
    • Narrated by: Michael Edwards
    • Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 12-18-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,611 ratings
    • In this book, which the author calls a "culmination of 30 years of work in the history of ideas", Sowell attempts to explain the ideological difference between liberals and conservatives....

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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 1,837 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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    • A Schoolteacher's Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling
    • By: John Taylor Gatto
    • Narrated by: Michael Puttonen
    • Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 02-26-13
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 825 ratings
    • Weapons of Mass Instruction focuses on mechanisms of traditional education which cripple imagination, discourage critical thinking, and create a false view of learning....

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    • By: Jen Calonita
    • Narrated by: Kristin Condon
    • Series: Fairy Tale Reform School, Book 5
    • Length: 4 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 03-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • With big-time villains Rumpelstiltskin and Alva still on the loose and the citizens of Enchantasia on high alert, things at Fairy Tale Reform School have been a little...stressed. Then Maxine finds an old lamp that turns out to house an overly enthusiastic genie....

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    • By: Rosa Luxemburg
    • Narrated by: Anne Makoto
    • Length: 3 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 01-09-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 73 ratings
    • Reform or Revolution is an 1899 pamphlet by Polish-German Marxist theorist Rosa Luxemburg, in which she argues that trade unions, reformist political parties, and the expansion of social democracy could not create a socialist society....

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    • By: Jen Calonita
    • Narrated by: Kristin Condon
    • Series: Fairy Tale Reform School, Book 3
    • Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 04-21-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 85 ratings
    • Times are changing at Fairy Tale Reform School. At least that's what Gilly's heard. Rumor is that notorious trickster Rumpelstiltskin has taken over management....

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    • Why Plea Bargaining Is a Bad Deal
    • By: Carissa Byrne Hessick
    • Narrated by: Christina Delaine
    • Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 10-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • Nearly every aspect of our criminal justice system encourages defendants-whether innocent or guilty-to take a plea deal. Punishment Without Trial showcases how plea bargaining has undermined justice at every turn and across socioeconomic and racial divides....

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