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"Stupidity" [Téléfilm Canada 2003] Co-produced & directed by Albert Nerenberg; extras include uncut interviews with Noam Chomsky, Giancarlo Livraghi, Bill Maher, director Albert Nerenberg, Avital Ronell & director Joel Schumacher Disinformation color DVD [7/2006] for $17.99 full credits at IMDb • official movie site |
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"Two Americas, Two Educations: Funding Quality Schools For All Students" [2006] by Paul F. Cummins Red Hen Press 9x6 pb [11/2006] for $18.95 |
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"Dewey's Dream: Universities & Democracies In An Age of Education Reform - Civil Society, Public Schools & Democratic Citizenship" [2007] by Lee Benson, Ira Harkavy & John Puckett Temple Univ Press 8x5½ pb [3/2007] for $18.95 Temple Univ Press 8¼x5½ hardcover [3/2007] for $59.50 |
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"Gifted Children and Gifted Education: A Handbook For Teachers & Parents" [2006] by Gary A. Davis Great Potential Press 9x5¾ pb [9/2006] for $21.75 |
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"Learning Power: Organizing For Education & Justice" [2006] by Jeannie Oakes & John Rogers, with Martin Lipton Teachers College Press 9x6½ pb [3/2006] for $19.95 Teachers College Press 9x6½ hardcover [3/2006] for $44.00 |
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"The Shame of The Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling In America" [2005] by Jonathan Kozol winner 2005 Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship Three Rivers Press 8x5¼ pb [8/2006] for $10.17 Crown 9¾x6½ hardcover [9/2005] for $16.50 Random House ABR audio CD [9/2005] for $21.26 |
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"University, Inc.: The Corporate Corruption of American Higher Education" [2005] by Jennifer Washburn Basic Books 8x5¼ pb [8/2006] for $12.71 Basic Books 9½x6½ hardcover [2/2005] for $18.98 |
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"No Exit: What Parents Owe Their Children & What Society Owes Parents" [2004] by Anne L. Alstott Oxford Univ Press pb [11/2005] for $18.95 Oxford Univ Press 9½x6½ hardcover [5/2004] for $10.68 |
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"Seeing Past Z: Imagination In A Fast-Forward World" [2004] by Beth Kephart W.W. Norton 8¼x5¾ hardcover [6/2004] for $16.29 |
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"Genius Denied: How To Stop Wasting Our Brightest Young Minds" [2004] by Jan & Bob Davidson, with Laura Vanderkam S&S 8½x5½ pb [3/2005] for $10.40 S&S 8½x5¾ hardcover [4/2004] for $16.32 official booksite |
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"Stupidity and Tears: Teaching & Learning In Troubled Times" [2004] by Herbert Kohl "Kohl's latest will be required reading for progressive-minded teaching professionals and [is] recommended to everyone else concerned." — Publishers Weekly New Press 8¼x5¾ hardcover [1/2004] for $16.07 |
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"No Excuses: Closing The Racial Gap In Learning" [2003] by Stephan & Abigail Thernstrom "remorseless lucidity ... trademark thoroughness and empirical rigor" — James Traub, Los Angeles Times Book Review S&S 9x6 pb [10/2004] for $10.20 S&S 9½x6½ hardcover [10/2003] for $16.38 |
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"City Schools and The American Dream: Reclaiming The Promise of Public Education" [2003] by Pedro Noguera, edited by James A. Banks Teachers College Press 9x6¼ pb [9/2003] for $19.95 Teachers College Press 9½x6¼ hardcover [9/2003] for $50.00 |
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"The Essential 55: An Award-Winning Educator's Rules For Discovering The Successful Student In Every Child" [2003] by Ron Clark [winner Disney Teacher of the Year Award 2001] Hyperion 7.8x5¼ hardcover [5/2003] for $11.97 Hyperion audio CD [10/2003] for $13.99 author website |
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"Universities In The Marketplace: The Commercialization of Higher Education" [2003] by Derek Curtis Bok {former president of Harvard University} Princeton Univ Press 9¼x6 pb [11/2004] for $11.53 Princeton Univ Press 9¼x6½ hardcover [3/2003] out of print/used |
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"Fifty Modern Thinkers On Education: From Piaget To The Present Day" [2001] Edited by Joy A. Palmer Routledge 8¼x5½ pb [11/2001] for $26.95 Routledge 8¾x5½ library hardcover [11/2001] for $130.00 [sic] |
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"Out of Our Minds: Learning To Be Creative" [2001] by Sir Ken Robinson Wiley/Capstone 9¼x6¼ pb [6/2001] for $23.07 Capstone pb [4/2001] for £11.19 via Amazon U.K. |
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"The Quiet Crisis: How Higher Education Is Failing America" [2000] by Peter Smith Jossey-Bass/Anker 9x6¼ hardcover [5/2000] for $38.00 |
"An Identification, Analysis & Critique of Thorstein B. Veblen's
Philosophy of Higher Education" [1998]
by Samuel Schneider
Edwin Mellen Press 9½x6½ hardcover [4/98] for $91.94
Veblen Page at Maison d'Être Philosophy Bookstore
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"Guerrilla Warfare For Teachers: A Survival Guide" [1996] by Evan Keliher Pedagogue Press 9x5½ pb [4/96] for $9.95 |
 | "The Closing of The American Mind" [1988 bestseller] by Allan Bloom Touchstone 8¼x5¼ pb [5/88] for $14.00 Blackstone UNABR audio [1/93] for $76.95 |
 | "Kindergarten Is Too Late !" [1971] by Masaru Ibuka Fireside pb [6/80] out of print/used S&S hardcover [1/77] out of print/used Wikipedia entry for Masaru Ibuka [1908-97], co-founder of Sony Corp. |
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"Teaching As A Subversive Activity" [1969] by Neil Postman & Charles Weingartner A no-holds-barred assault on outdated teaching methods – with dramatic & practical proposals on how education can be made relevant to today's world. Delacorte 8½x5½ pb [9/71] for $15.00 Doubleday hardcover [6/69] out of print/used |
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"Personal Knowledge: Towards A Post-Critical Philosophy" [1958] by Michael Polanyi [1891-1976] Polanyi's subjectivistic interpretation of scientific method exemplifies the failure of modern education – his logic is lucid but his conclusions faulty, largely due to his belief that all knowledge is faith-based. DO NOT buy this book!! Polanyi Society at Missouri Western State College |
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"Experience and Education" [1938 classic] by John Dewey [1859-1952] Late in his career, Dewey wrote this summary of his ideas, that the best, progressive education provides balanced and informed experience for the students. Free Press mass market pb [7/97] for $8.95 Kappa Delta Pi 7½x6 pb [11/98] for $19.99 Peter Smith Publr 7x4¾ hardcover [9/83] for $26.75 |
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"The Goose Step: A Study of American Education" [1923] by Upton Sinclair [1878-1968] "a scathing attack on business domination of education" Kessinger 9x6 pb [8/2004] for $25.71 |
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"The Higher Learning In America: A Memorandum On The Conduct of Universities By Business Men" [1918] by Thorstein B. Veblen Transaction Publrs pb [11/92] for $24.95 Veblen Page at Maison d'Être Philosophy Bookstore |
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"Democracy and Education" [1916 classic] by John Dewey [1859-1952] For Dewey, democracy and education were both the means and end for the building of a good and just progressive society. Digireads 9x6 pb [1/2005] for $9.49 Dover 8½x5½ pb [4/2004] for $10.36 Free Press 8¼x5½ pb [2/97] for $16.95 |
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