This Month's #BookmarkedReads📚 curated reading list provides eight of my favorite books on US education. These books will collectively provide a foundation from which to expand your understanding of both K12 and #HigherEd.
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Best In Teaching
As the title suggests, The Missing Course: Everything They Never Taught You about College Teaching by , teaches you everything you were never taught about college teaching.
Must read for educators in the classroom.
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Best in Learning Science
In How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now, Stanislas Dehaene explains four key pillars of learning that can be applied to how we teach and how learning environments are structured.
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Best in Education Technology
In Failure to Disrupt: Why Technology Alone Can’t Transform Education, explains everything you need to know to understand the role of edtech in today’s educational environment.
One of my favorite edu books.
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Best in History
In A Perfect Mess: The Unlikely Ascendancy of American Higher Education, gives the best historical overview of the US higher education system that I’ve read to date, explaining the contradictions within our education system.
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Dueling Perspectives on #highered
Sustainable. Resilient. Free. (amzn.to/3fd79dp) where argues for higher ed as a public good.
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The Case Against Education (amzn.to/3r58xUZ) where argues for higher ed as largely a waste of money
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Dueling Perspectives on
A Wolf at The Schoolhouse Door (amzn.to/3tdUkI0) promoting public K12 by +
vs. Charter Schools and Their Enemies (amzn.to/3ti78x6) promoting private/choice K12 models by T. Sowell.
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