Education

How people learn and how teaching can transform — research and practice.

10 books

Learning

How Children Fail

John Holt · 1964

A teacher's observations on why children struggle in school and how fear shapes learning.

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Learning Science

Make It Stick

Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III & Mark A. McDaniel · 2014

The science of successful learning, debunking popular study myths.

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Computers in Education

Mindstorms

Seymour Papert · 1980

Children, computers and powerful ideas about learning.

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Critical Pedagogy

Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Paulo Freire · 1968

Freire's landmark argument for education as the practice of freedom.

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Education Policy

Savage Inequalities

Jonathan Kozol · 1991

Children in America's schools: a searing look at funding inequality.

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Critical Pedagogy

Teaching to Transgress

bell hooks · 1994

Education as the practice of freedom in the classroom.

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Creativity

The Element

Ken Robinson · 2009

How finding your passion changes everything.

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Education Policy

The Smartest Kids in the World

Amanda Ripley · 2013

What America's top students' counterparts abroad do differently.

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Education Research

Visible Learning

John Hattie · 2008

A synthesis of over 800 meta-analyses on what works in education.

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Cognitive Science

Why Don't Students Like School?

Daniel T. Willingham · 2009

A cognitive scientist answers questions about how the mind works in the classroom.

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