Unequal Educations
These books highlight the inequalities & systemic issues in our education system. From K-12 all the way through higher education.
The Privileged Poor
How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students
By: Anthony Abraham Jack
Narrated by: Mirron Willis
Length: 7 hours 40 minutes
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.
The Ivy League looks different than it used to. College presidents and deans of admission have opened their doors—and their coffers—to... Read more
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Teaching To Transgress
Education as the Practice of Freedom
By: Bell Hooks
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 7 hours 28 minutes
In Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks–writer, teacher, and insurgent black intellectual–writes about a new kind of education, educations as the practice of freedom. Teaching students to “transgress” against racial, sexual, and class boundaries in order to achieve the gift of freedom is, for hooks, the teacher’s most important goal. Bell hooks... Read more
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The New Education
How to Revolutionize the University to Prepare Students for a World In Flux
By: Cathy N. Davidson
Narrated by: Carolyn Cook
Length: 11 hours 1 minute
A leading educational thinker argues that the American university is stuck in the past -- and shows how we can revolutionize it for our era of constant change
Our current system of higher education dates to the period from 1865 to 1925. It was in those decades that the nation's new universities created grades and departments, majors and minors,... Read more
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Paying for the Party
How College Maintains Inequality
By: Elizabeth A. Armstrong & Laura T. Hamilton
Narrated by: Chloe Cannon
Length: 10 hours 35 minutes
Two young women, dormitory mates, embark on their education at a big state university. Five years later, one is earning a good salary at a prestigious accounting firm. With no loans to repay, she lives in a fashionable apartment with her fiancé. The other woman, saddled with burdensome debt and a low GPA, is still struggling to finish her degree... Read more
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Despite the Best Intentions
How Racial Inequality Thrives in Good Schools
By: John B. Diamond & Amanda E. Lewis
Narrated by: David Sadzin
Length: 8 hours 51 minutes
On the surface, Riverview High School looks like the post-racial ideal. Serving an enviably affluent, diverse, and liberal district, the school is well-funded, its teachers are well-trained, and many of its students are high achieving. Yet Riverview has not escaped the same unrelenting question that plagues schools throughout America: why is it... Read more
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The Shame of the Nation
The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America
By: Jonathan Kozol
Narrated by: Robertson Dean
Length: 10 hours 8 minutes
“The nation needs to be confronted with the crime that we’re committing and the promises we are betraying. This is a book about betrayal of the young, who have no power to defend themselves. It is not intended to make readers comfortable.”
Over the past several years, Jonathan Kozol has visited nearly 60 public schools. Virtually everywhere, he... Read more
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The Shame of the Nation - Abridged
The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America
By: Jonathan Kozol
Narrated by: Harry Chase
Length: 5 hours 36 minutes
“The nation needs to be confronted with the crime that we’re committing and the promises we are betraying. This is a book about betrayal of the young, who have no power to defend themselves. It is not intended to make readers comfortable.”
Over the past several years, Jonathan Kozol has visited nearly 60 public schools. Virtually everywhere, he... Read more
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Savage Inequalities
Children in America's Schools
By: Jonathan Kozol
Narrated by: Mark Winston
Length: 8 hours 43 minutes
For two years, beginning in 1988, Jonathan Kozol visited schools in neighborhoods across the country, from Illinois to Washington D.C., and from New York to San Antonio. He spoke with teachers, principals, superintendents, and, most important, children. What he found was devastating. Not only were schools for rich and poor blatantly unequal, the... Read more
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Pedagogy of the Oppressed
50th Anniversary Edition
By: Paulo Freire
Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman
Length: 7 hours 41 minutes
First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in English in 1970. Paulo Freire's work has helped to empower countless people throughout the world and has taken on special urgency in the United States and Western Europe, where the creation of a permanent underclass among the underprivileged and... Read more
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Paying the Price
College Costs, Financial Aid, and the Betrayal of the American Dream
By: Sara Goldrick-Rab
Narrated by: Vanessa Daniels
Length: 9 hours 46 minutes
If you are a young person, and you work hard enough, you can get a college degree and set yourself on the path to a good life, right? Not necessarily, says Sara Goldrick-Rab, and with Paying the Price, she shows in damning detail exactly why.
Drawing on an unprecedented study of 3,000 young adults who entered public colleges and universities in... Read more
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Lower Ed
The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy
By: Tressie McMillan Cottom
Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
Length: 8 hours 29 minutes
More than two million students are enrolled in for-profit colleges, from the small family-run operations to the behemoths brandished on billboards, subway ads, and late-night commercials. These schools have been around just as long as their bucolic not-for-profit counterparts, yet shockingly little is known about why they have expanded so... Read more
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