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 304 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 1,573 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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    • 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 28 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 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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    • 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 1,610 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 1,834 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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    • 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 823 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 1
    • Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 03-03-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 242 ratings
    • Gilly wouldn't call herself wicked, exactly... but when you have five little brothers and sisters and live in a run-down boot, you have to get creative to make ends meet....

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    • How Billionaires Created a Culture War and Sold School Vouchers
    • By: Josh Cowen
    • Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
    • Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-24
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • A deep-dive investigation of education privatization that reveals voucher programs as the faulty products of decades of work by wealthy patrons and influential conservatives.

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    • By: Fredrik deBoer
    • Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins
    • Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • Fredrik deBoer explores American policy reform, or lack thereof, in the wake of the murder of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter movement and how the country can do better in the future.

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    • The Hidden Cause of America's Broken Education System--and How to Fix it
    • By: Natalie Wexler
    • Narrated by: Natalie Wexler
    • Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 08-06-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 675 ratings
    • In the tradition of Dale Russakoff's The Prize and Dana Goldstein's The Teacher Wars, Wexler brings together history, research, and compelling characters to pull back the curtain on this fundamental flaw in our education system....

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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 431 ratings
    • A revolutionary new argument from eminent Yale Law professor Daniel Markovits attacking the false promise of meritocracy....

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    • Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point
    • By: Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 285 ratings
    • America is undergoing a massive experiment: It is moving, in fits and starts, toward a multiracial democracy, something few societies have ever done. But the prospect of change has sparked an authoritarian backlash that threatens the very foundations of our political system....

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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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    • A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment
    • By: Shane Bauer
    • Narrated by: James Fouhey, Shane Bauer
    • Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 09-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,043 ratings
    • After working as an entry-level prison guard at a private prison, Shane Bauer wrote an exposé about his experiences. In American Prison, Bauer weaves a much deeper reckoning with his experiences together with a thoroughly researched history of for-profit prisons in America....

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    • A Year Inside College Admissions
    • By: Jeffrey J. Selingo
    • Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins
    • Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 09-15-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 511 ratings
    • From award-winning higher education journalist and New York Times best-selling author Jeffrey Selingo comes a revealing look from inside the admissions office - one that identifies surprising strategies that will aid in the college search....

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    • How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That's a Good Thing)
    • By: Salman Khan
    • Narrated by: Salman Khan
    • Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 179 ratings
    • From the founder of Khan Academy comes the first book written for general audiences on the AI revolution in education, its implications for parenting, and how we can best harness its power for good....

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    • And 20 Other Myths About Mass Incarceration
    • By: Victoria Law
    • Narrated by: Melissa Moran
    • Series: Myths Made in America
    • Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 04-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • An accessible guide for activists, educators, and all who are interested in understanding how the prison system oppresses communities and harms individuals....

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    • A Scandinavian Mom's Secrets for Raising Healthy, Resilient, and Confident Kids (from Friluftsliv to Hygge)
    • By: Linda Åkeson McGurk
    • Narrated by: Ann Richardson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 10-03-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 880 ratings
    • Bringing Up Bébé meets Last Child in the Woods in this lively, insightful memoir....

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    • Rescuing Our Children from Failed Educational Theories
    • By: E. D. Hirsch Jr.
    • Narrated by: BJ Harrison
    • Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 04-27-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • Hirsch, author of The Knowledge Deficit, draws on recent findings in neuroscience and data from France to provide new evidence for the argument that a carefully planned, knowledge-based elementary curriculum is essential to providing the foundations for children's life success....

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