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- Rethinking What We Say About and to Students Every Day
- Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
- Length: 13 hrs and 41 mins
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Words matter. Every day in schools, language is used - whether in the classroom, in a student-teacher meeting, or by principals, guidance counselors, or other school professionals - implying, intentionally or not, that some subset of students have little potential. As a result, countless students "underachieve", others become disengaged, and, ultimately, we all lose.
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 577
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 562
Claude M. Steele, who has been called “one of the few great social psychologists,” offers a vivid first-person account of the research that supports his groundbreaking conclusions on stereotypes and identity. He sheds new light on American social phenomena from racial and gender gaps in test scores to the belief in the superior athletic prowess of black men, and lays out a plan for mitigating these “stereotype threats” and reshaping American identities.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Surprising, in a good way
- By Michael on 09-25-20
By: Claude M. Steele
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Choice Words
- How Our Language Affects Children's Learning
- By: Peter H. Johnston
- Narrated by: Peter H. Johnston
- Length: 3 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 119
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 91
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 87
In productive classrooms, teachers don't just teach children skills, they build emotionally and relationally healthy learning communities. Teachers create intellectual environments that produce not only technically competent students, but also caring, secure, actively literate human beings.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Check it out at the library or don't
- By Lesley on 04-01-12
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The Professor Is In
- The Essential Guide to Turning Your PhD into a Job
- By: Karen Kelsky
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
- Length: 14 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 149
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 126
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 124
Each year tens of thousands of students will, after years of hard work and enormous amounts of money, earn their PhDs. And each year only a small percentage of them will land jobs that justify and reward their investments. For every comfortably tenured professor or well-paid former academic, there are countless underpaid and overworked adjuncts and many more who simply give up in frustration. Karen Kelsky has made it her mission to help job seekers join the select few who get the most out of their PhDs.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Mostly useless and potentially harmful
- By we3 on 10-20-17
By: Karen Kelsky
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Pedigree
- How Elite Students Get Elite Jobs
- By: Lauren A. Rivera
- Narrated by: Dina Pearlman
- Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 99
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 77
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 77
Americans are taught to believe that upward mobility is possible for anyone who is willing to work hard, regardless of their social status. Yet it is often those from affluent backgrounds who land the best jobs. Pedigree takes listeners behind the closed doors of top-tier investment banks, consulting firms, and law firms to reveal the truth about who really gets hired for the nation's highest-paying entry-level jobs, who doesn't, and why.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Should have been much much shorter
- By Amazon Customer on 10-13-21
By: Lauren A. Rivera
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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 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 96
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 85
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 83
Our current system of higher education dates to the period from 1865 to 1925, when the nation's new universities created grades and departments, majors and minors, in an attempt to prepare young people for a world transformed by the telegraph and the Model T. As Cathy Davidson argues in The New Education, this approach to education is wholly unsuited to the era of the gig economy.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Practical Enough / Scholarly Enough
- By Amazon Customer on 07-22-20
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Raising White Kids
- Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America
- By: Jennifer Harvey
- Narrated by: Eliza Foss
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 159
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 134
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 131
Talking about race means naming the reality of white privilege and hierarchy. How do we talk about race honestly, then, without making our children feel bad about being white? Most importantly, how do we do any of this in age-appropriate ways? While a great deal of public discussion exists in regard to the impact of race and racism on children of color, meaningful dialogue about and resources for understanding the impact of race on white children are woefully absent. Raising White Kids steps into that void.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Distracting performance
- By Amazon Customer on 07-24-20
By: Jennifer Harvey
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Now You See It
- How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn
- By: Cathy N. Davidson
- Narrated by: Laural Merlington
- Length: 13 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 112
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 91
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Story4 out of 5 stars 86
When Duke University gave free iPods to the freshman class in 2003, critics said they were wasting their money. Yet when the students in practically every discipline invented academic uses for the music players, suddenly the idea could be seen in a new light - as an innovative way to turn learning on its head. Using cutting-edge research on the brain, Cathy N. Davidson show how attention blindness has produced one of our society's greatest challenges.
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5 out of 5 stars
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3 Reasons to Read
- By Joshua Kim on 05-06-12
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Limitless Mind
- Learn, Lead, and Live Without Barriers
- By: Jo Boaler
- Narrated by: Jo Boaler
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 534
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 455
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 449
In this revolutionary book, a professor of education at Stanford University and acclaimed math educator who has spent decades studying the impact of beliefs and bias on education, reveals the six keys to unlocking learning potential, based on the latest scientific findings.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Title does not reflect audience
- By Oliver Nielsen on 05-02-20
By: Jo Boaler
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Questions Are the Answer
- A Breakthrough Approach to Your Most Vexing Problems at Work and in Life
- By: Hal Gregersen
- Narrated by: Rick Adamson
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 132
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 114
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 113
For innovation and leadership guru Hal Gregersen, the power of questions has always been clear - but it took some years for the follow-on question to hit him: If so much depends on fresh questions, shouldn’t we know more about how to arrive at them? That sent him on a research quest ultimately including more than 200 interviews with creative thinkers. Questions Are the Answer delivers the insights Gregersen gained about the conditions that give rise to catalytic questions - and breakthrough insights - and how anyone can create them.
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2 out of 5 stars
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All you need is the title
- By Bob Jordy on 01-13-22
By: Hal Gregersen
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The Formula
- Unlocking the Secrets to Raising Highly Successful Children
- By: Ronald F. Ferguson, Tatsha Robertson
- Narrated by: Cynthia Farrell
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 127
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 108
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 108
In The Formula: Unlocking the Secrets to Raising Highly Successful Children, Harvard economist Ronald Ferguson, named in a New York Times profile as the foremost expert on the US educational "achievement gap," along with award-winning journalist Tatsha Robertson, reveal an intriguing blueprint for helping children from all types of backgrounds become successful adults.
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4 out of 5 stars
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would recommend
- By Marcia on 02-25-20
By: Ronald F. Ferguson, and others
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Positive Discipline Tools for Teachers
- Effective Classroom Management for Social, Emotional, and Academic Success
- By: Jane Nelsen, Kelly Gfroerer
- Narrated by: Virginia Wolf
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 75
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 67
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 66
The positive discipline method has proved to be an invaluable resource for teachers who want to foster creative problem-solving within their students, giving them the behavioral skills they need to understand and process what they learn. Each tool is tailored specifically for the modern teacher, with examples and solutions to each and every roadblock that stands in the way of cooperative and student-centered learning.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good ideas but misleading
- By J. Frazier on 03-29-18
By: Jane Nelsen, and others
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The Slow Professor
- Challenging the Culture of Speed in the Academy
- By: Maggie Berg, Barbara K. Seeber
- Narrated by: Emily Sutton-Smith
- Length: 3 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 60
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 53
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Story4 out of 5 stars 51
The corporatisation of the contemporary university has sped up the clock. In The Slow Professor, Maggie Berg and Barbara K. Seeber discuss how adopting the principles of the Slow movement in academic life can counter this erosion of humanistic education. Focusing on the individual faculty member and his or her own professional practice, Berg and Seeber present both an analysis of the culture of speed in the academy and ways of alleviating stress while improving teaching, research, and collegiality.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good content, not so good performance
- By Anonymous User on 10-31-20
By: Maggie Berg, and others
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Unschooled
- Raising Curious, Well-Educated Children Outside the Conventional Classroom
- By: Kerry Mcdonald, Peter Grey PhD
- Narrated by: Lesa Lockford
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 222
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 178
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 176
In a compelling narrative that introduces historical and contemporary research on self-directed education, Unschooled also spotlights how a diverse group of individuals and organizations are evolving an old schooling model of education. These innovators challenge the myth that children need to be taught in order to learn.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Not for parents
- By online shopper on 05-24-20
By: Kerry Mcdonald, and others
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The War Against Boys
- How Misguided Policies Are Harming Our Young Men
- By: Christina Hoff Sommers
- Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
- Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 276
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 240
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 239
An updated and revised edition of the controversial classic - now more relevant than ever - argues that boys are the ones languishing socially and academically, resulting in staggering social and economic costs. After two major waves of feminism and decades of policy reform, women have made massive strides in education. Today they outperform men in nearly every measure of social, academic, and vocational well-being. Christina Hoff Sommers contends that it's time to take a hard look at present-day realities and recognize that boys need help.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Important Book
- By VeritasPlz on 11-05-18
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The Importance of Being Little
- What Preschoolers Really Need from Grownups
- By: Erika Christakis
- Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
- Length: 12 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 178
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 150
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 143
A bold challenge to the conventional wisdom about early childhood, with a pragmatic program to encourage parents and teachers to rethink how and where young children learn best by taking the child's eye view of the learning environment.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Points out many problems; offers no real solution
- By K. Lynn on 08-06-18
By: Erika Christakis
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