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    • Cultural Conflict in the Classroom
    • By: Lisa Delpit
    • Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
    • Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 07-18-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 127 ratings
    • Lisa Delpit develops ideas about ways teachers can be better "cultural transmitters" in the classroom, where stereotypes and cultural assumptions breed ineffective education....

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    • The Science of Creating Connection and Bridging Divides
    • By: Geoffrey L. Cohen
    • Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
    • Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 10-25-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • Discover the secret to flourishing in an age of division: belonging. In a world filled with discord and loneliness, finding harmony and happiness can be difficult....

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    • The Fates of Human Societies
    • By: Jared Diamond
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 09-28-05
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2,153 ratings
    • Evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors actually responsible for history's broadest patterns....

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    • The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools
    • By: Monique W. Morris
    • Narrated by: Kristyl Dawn Tift
    • Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 09-21-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 281 ratings
    • Fifteen-year-old Diamond stopped going to school the day she was expelled for lashing out at peers who constantly harassed and teased her for something everyone on the staff had missed....

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    • How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students
    • By: Anthony Abraham Jack
    • Narrated by: Mirron Willis
    • Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 111 ratings
    • Getting in is only half the battle. The Privileged Poor reveals how - and why - disadvantaged students struggle at elite colleges and explains what schools can do differently if these students are to thrive....

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    • The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters
    • By: Tom Nichols
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 05-23-17
    • Language: English
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    • People are now exposed to more information than ever before, provided both by technology and by increasing access to every level of education....

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    • The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life
    • By: William Deresiewicz
    • Narrated by: Mel Foster
    • Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 08-19-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 464 ratings
    • As a professor at Yale, William Deresiewicz saw something that troubled him deeply. His students, some of the nation's brightest minds, were adrift when it came to the big questions: how to think critically....

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    • Every Student. Every Day. Whatever It Takes.
    • By: Jimmy Casas, Salome Thomas-EL
    • Narrated by: Jimmy Casas
    • Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 06-30-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 444 ratings
    • Average schools don't inspire greatness - and greatness is what our world needs if we are going to produce world-changing learners. In Culturize, author and education leader Jimmy Casas shares insights into what it takes to cultivate a community of learners....

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    • Insights and Inspiration from Teachers Across America
    • By: Ted Dintersmith
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 04-24-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 199 ratings
    • Capturing bold ideas from teachers and classrooms across America, What School Could Be provides a realistic, and profoundly optimistic, roadmap for creating cultures of innovation and real learning in all our schools....

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    • The Making of an Adolescent Elite at St. Paul's School
    • By: Shamus Rahman Khan
    • Narrated by: Neil Shah
    • Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 12-19-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 70 ratings
    • As one of the most prestigious high schools in the nation, St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, has long been the exclusive domain of America's wealthiest sons....

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    • Racism and School Closings in Chicago’s South Side
    • By: Eve L. Ewing
    • Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
    • Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 06-25-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 149 ratings
    • Eve L. Ewing knows Chicago Public Schools from the inside: as a student, then a teacher, and now a scholar who studies them. And that perspective has shown her that public schools are not buildings full of failures - they're an integral part of their neighborhoods....

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    • By: Plato
    • Narrated by: Pat Bottino
    • Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 12-29-99
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 412 ratings
    • The Dialogues of Plato (427-347 B.C.) rank with the writings of Aristotle as the most important and influential philosophical works in Western thought...

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    • By: Janet Malcolm
    • Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin
    • Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 02-24-15
    • Language: English
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    • Janet Malcolm delves into the psychopathology of journalism using a strange and unprecedented lawsuit as her larger-than-life example: the lawsuit of Jeffrey MacDonald....

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    • The Education of a Craftsman
    • By: Peter Korn
    • Narrated by: Traber Burns
    • Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 03-28-14
    • Language: English
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    • In this moving account, Peter Korn explores the nature and rewards of creative practice....

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    • Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching
    • By: Jarvis R. Givens
    • Narrated by: Leon Nixon
    • Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 04-12-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
    • A fresh portrayal of one of the architects of the African American intellectual tradition, whose faith in the subversive power of education will inspire teachers and learners today....

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    • How One Question Can Change Everything for Our Kids
    • By: Kyle Schwartz
    • Narrated by: Allyson Ryan
    • Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 08-29-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 83 ratings
    • One day, third-grade teacher Kyle Schwartz asked her students to fill in the blank in this sentence: "I wish my teacher knew _____." The results astounded her....

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    • The 8 Forces We Must Master to Truly Transform Our Schools
    • By: Ron Ritchhart
    • Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
    • Length: 13 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 08-20-19
    • Language: English
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    • Ron Ritchhart, author of Making Thinking Visible, explains how creating a culture of thinking is more important to learning than any particular curriculum, and he outlines how any school or teacher can accomplish this by leveraging eight cultural forces....

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