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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
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    • 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 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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    • 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
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    • 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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    • What Works and Why
    • By: Paul Tough
    • Narrated by: Paul Tough
    • Length: 3 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 05-12-16
    • Language: English
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    • Mining the latest research in psychology and neuroscience, Paul Tough provides us with insights and strategies for a new approach to childhood adversity....

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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
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    • 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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    • 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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    • How College Maintains Inequality
    • By: Elizabeth A. Armstrong, Laura T. Hamilton
    • Narrated by: Chloe Cannon
    • Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 09-15-20
    • Language: English
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    • In an era of skyrocketing tuition and concern over whether college is “worth it”, Paying for the Party is an indispensable contribution to the dialogue assessing the state of American higher education. It is a powerful exposé of unmet obligations and misplaced priorities....

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    • A Warning About America's Next Generation
    • By: Jeremy S. Adams
    • Narrated by: Chris Abell
    • Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 08-03-21
    • Language: English
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    • Do teachers have a front-row seat to America’s decline? Jeremy S. Adams, a teacher at both the high school and college levels, thinks so....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Steve Bruce
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 3 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 06-22-21
    • Language: English
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    • Steve Bruce discusses the continuing arguments for social egalitarianism, considering issues such as gay marriage, women in combat roles, and the 2010 Equality Act to debunk contemporary arguments against parity....

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    • Riffs and Rants on Elite Education
    • By: Malcolm Gladwell
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
    • Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 07-12-22
    • Language: English
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    • From Malcolm Gladwell’s hit podcast Revisionist History comes a compendium about one of his greatest obsessions: education....

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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
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    • 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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    • The Ethical Costs of Upward Mobility
    • By: Jennifer Morton
    • Narrated by: Chloe Cannon
    • Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 09-17-19
    • Language: English
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    • Upward mobility through the path of higher education has been an article of faith for generations of working-class, low-income, and immigrant college students. While we know this path usually entails financial sacrifices and hard work....

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    • The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
    • By: John Taylor Gatto
    • Narrated by: Michael Puttonen
    • Length: 3 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 05-09-12
    • Language: English
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    • Thirty years in New York City's public schools led John Gatto to the sad conclusion that compulsory schooling does little but teach young people to follow orders like cogs in an industrial machine....

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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
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    • 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 CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion
    • By: Gary Webb
    • Narrated by: Christian Rummel
    • Length: 20 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 12-24-13
    • Language: English
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    • In July 1995, San Jose Mercury-News reporter Gary Webb found the Big One - the blockbuster story every journalist secretly dreams about - without even looking for it....

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    • A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League
    • By: Jeff Hobbs
    • Narrated by: George Newbern
    • Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 09-23-14
    • Language: English
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    • A heartfelt, and riveting biography of the short life of a talented young man who escapes the slums of Newark for Yale University only to succumb to the dangers of the streets....

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    • Listening for the Voice of Vocation
    • By: Parker J. Palmer
    • Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
    • Length: 2 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 07-06-09
    • Language: English
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    • Finding one's calling is not just about finding something we can do - it is about finding what we can't not do....

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