Books for Educators

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Books about schools, teaching, learning, etc. Lots of people are "educators" so feel free to think about librarians and students and parents...
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The Rights of the Reader
by Daniel Pennac
1,669 members
51 reviews
3.8
2 Members
bluepiano, Haiksmith
3
The New Science of Learning: How to Learn in Harmony with Your Brain
by Terry Doyle
123 members
1 review
½ 3.5
2 Members
hipdeep, Haiksmith
4
Radical Presence: Teaching as Contemplative Practice
by Mary Rose O'Reilley
70 members
2 reviews
½ 4.6
2 Members
hipdeep, Haiksmith
6
How Learning Works: Seven Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching
by Susan A. Ambrose
433 members
7 reviews
4.2
2 Members
hipdeep, Haiksmith
7
We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change
by Myles Horton
266 members
2 reviews
½ 4.4
2 Members
hipdeep, Haiksmith
8
Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
by Maryanne Wolf
1,827 members
50 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
hipdeep, Haiksmith
9
Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning
by James M. Lang
327 members
5 reviews
4
2 Members
hipdeep, Haiksmith
11
The Tyranny of the Meritocracy: Democratizing Higher Education in America
by Lani Guinier
74 members
18 reviews
3.9
Member
hipdeep
13
Cheating Lessons: Learning from Academic Dishonesty
by James M. Lang
90 members
1 review
4
Member
hipdeep
15
Studio Thinking: The Real Benefits of Visual Arts Education
by Lois Hetland
50 members
½ 3.5
Member
hipdeep
16
Understanding By Design
by Grant Wiggins
1,003 members
9 reviews
4
Member
hipdeep
18
How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School: Expanded Edition
by John D. Bransford
527 members
4 reviews
4.1
Member
Haiksmith
19
Care At The Core
by Sherri Spelic
5 members
4
Member
hipdeep
20
Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom (Harvest in Translation)
by bell hooks
1,666 members
17 reviews
4.2
Member
hipdeep
23
Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis
by Robert D. Putnam
523 members
15 reviews
4.1
Member
hipdeep
24
Stop Stealing Dreams (what is school for?)
by Seth Godin
26 members
3 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
hipdeep
25
Blur: How to Know What's True in the Age of Information Overload
by Bill Kovach
161 members
14 reviews
3.9
Member
hipdeep
26
Minds on Fire: How Role-Immersion Games Transform College
by Mark C. Carnes
51 members
1 review
3
Member
hipdeep
27
What the Best College Teachers Do
by Ken Bain
1,125 members
15 reviews
3.9
Member
hipdeep
28
Beyond the University: Why Liberal Education Matters
by Michael S. Roth
119 members
1 review
3
Member
hipdeep
30
The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students
by Anthony Abraham Jack
147 members
3 reviews
½ 4.4
Member
hipdeep
31
The Monsters of Education Technology
by Audrey Watters
17 members
½ 4.3
Member
hipdeep
32
Practice for Life: Making Decisions in College
by Lee Cuba
23 members
3.8
Member
hipdeep
34
The Peaceable Classroom
by Mary Rose O'Reilley
51 members
4.1
Member
hipdeep
35
Why Choose the Liberal Arts?
by Mark William Roche
39 members
½ 3.7
Member
hipdeep
36
Reskilling America: Learning to Labor in the Twenty-First Century
by Katherine S. Newman
30 members
10 reviews
4
Member
hipdeep
37
Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy
by Tressie McMillan Cottom
196 members
7 reviews
3.9
Member
hipdeep
38
Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do (Issues of Our Time)
by Claude M. Steele
740 members
28 reviews
3.8
Member
hipdeep
39
Small Teaching Online: Applying Learning Science in Online Classes
by Flower Darby
111 members
4 reviews
4.1
Member
hipdeep
40
Distracted: Why Students Can't Focus and What You Can Do About It
by James M. Lang
79 members
1 review
½ 3.7
Member
hipdeep
41
Radical Hope: A Teaching Manifesto (Teaching and Learning in Higher Education)
by Kevin M. Gannon
87 members
2 reviews
4
Member
hipdeep
50
Learning in a Time of Abundance: The Community Is the Curriculum
by Dave Cormier
6 members
4
Member
hipdeep
51
Building Faculty Learning Communities
by Milton D. Cox
44 members
1 review
4
Member
hipdeep
53
Empowering Students With Technology
by Alan C. November
92 members
3 reviews
3
Member
hipdeep
54
Academia Next: The Futures of Higher Education
by Bryan Alexander
22 members
2 reviews
½ 4.4
Member
hipdeep
55
The mapping primer: tools for reconstructing the college curriculum
by Ruth E Stiehl
2 members
3
Member
hipdeep
56
25 Years of Ed Tech (Issues in Distance Education)
by Martin Weller
6 members
4
Member
hipdeep
57
How Education Works: Teaching, Technology, and Technique
by Jon Dron
5 members
4
Member
hipdeep
58
The New Digital Storytelling: Creating Narratives with New Media
by Bryan Alexander
55 members
2 reviews
4.1
Member
hipdeep
59
America calling : a foreign student in a country of possibility
by Rajika Bhandari
8 members
1 review
3.8
Member
hipdeep
60
Techniques and Strategies for Interpreting Student Evaluations
by Karron G. Lewis
21 members
3
Member
hipdeep
61
Scholarship Assessed : Evaluation of the Professoriate
by Charles E. Glassick
89 members
4.1
Member
hipdeep
62
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
by Cathy O'Neil
1,859 members
97 reviews
3.8
Member
hipdeep
63
Mind Amplifier: Can Our Digital Tools Make Us Smarter? (Kindle Single)
by Howard Rheingold
18 members
2 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
hipdeep
64
The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters
by Priya Parker
902 members
20 reviews
3.8
Member
hipdeep
65
The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups
by Daniel Coyle
934 members
14 reviews
4.1
Member
hipdeep
66
Hybrid teaching : pedagogy, people, politics
by Chris Friend
1 member
3
Member
hipdeep
67
Universities on Fire: Higher Education in the Climate Crisis
by Bryan Alexander
6 members
Member
hipdeep
68
The Slow Professor: Challenging the Culture of Speed in the Academy
by Maggie Berg
194 members
4 reviews
½ 3.3
Member
hipdeep
70
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
by Paulo Freire
4,489 members
47 reviews
4.1
Member
hipdeep
72
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
by Carol S. Dweck
4,428 members
78 reviews
3.9
73
Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools
by Jonathan Kozol
2,293 members
18 reviews
4.1
74
The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life
by Rosamund Stone Zander
1,700 members
33 reviews
3.9
75
The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life
by Parker J. Palmer
1,651 members
12 reviews
4.1
76
Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else
by Geoff Colvin
1,234 members
21 reviews
3.8
77
Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning
by Peter C. Brown
1,171 members
20 reviews
4.1
78
Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom
by Lisa Delpit
633 members
5 reviews
4.2
80
Classroom Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for College Teachers
by Thomas A. Angelo
405 members
3 reviews
3.8
83
The Power of Mindful Learning
by Ellen J. Langer
315 members
2 reviews
½ 3.5
86
Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate
by Ernest L. Boyer
255 members
1 review
½ 4.3
87
Learner-Centered Teaching: Five Key Changes to Practice
by Maryellen Weimer
246 members
3 reviews
½ 3.4
90
Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher
by Stephen D. Brookfield
213 members
3 reviews
½ 3.5
91
Visible Learning for Teachers: Maximizing Impact on Learning
by John Hattie
196 members
1 review
4
92
Effective Grading: A Tool for Learning and Assessment
by Barbara E. Walvoord
195 members
2 reviews
4.1
94
Clueless in Academe: How Schooling Obscures the Life of the Mind
by Gerald Graff
185 members
3 reviews
½ 3.4
95
Make Just One Change: Teach Students to Ask Their Own Questions
by Dan Rothstein
139 members
4 reviews
4.1
96
Brain-Based Learning: The New Paradigm of Teaching
by Eric P. Jensen
136 members
4
99
What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World
by Taylor Mali
121 members
2 reviews
4