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  • Cinderella Liberator

    by Rebecca Solnit

    Rebecca Solnit reimagines a classic fairytale with a fresh, feminist Cinderella and new plot twists that will inspire young readers to change the world.

  • A Marxist Education

    by Wayne Au

    A critical analysis of the state of public education under capitalism and the prospects for radical pedagogy and reform.

  • Rethinking Private Higher Education

    by Daniele Cantini
    In-depth ethnographic studies of universities as rapidly evolving, key contemporary institutions, interrogating in particular the fast-growing private sector

  • Class Action

    by The Caucus of Rank and File Educators CORE and Jacobin Magazine
    Tens of thousands of ordinary people are willing to take action to defend the right to a public education.

  • Against Apartheid

    Edited by Ashley Dawson and Bill V. Mullen
    A timely and incisive handbook that argues academic boycott is a vital component of the struggle against Israeli Apartheid

  • Uncivil Rites

    by Steven Salaita
    Salaita’s controversial firing by the University of Illinois provoked a national conversation about academic freedom and the question of Palestine.

  • The Meaning of Marxism

    by Paul D'Amato
    A lively and accessible introduction to the ideas of Karl Marx, with historical and contemporary examples.

  • More Than a Score

    Edited by Jesse Hagopian
    Voices from the growing movement of teachers, students, and parents organizing against high-stakes testing.

  • This Is Not A Test

    by José Vilson
    Vilson, a teacher from an urban school composed of black and poor youth, challenges racism and inequality in the classroom.

  • Badass Teachers Unite!

    by Mark Naison
    Mark Naison exposes how dominant Education Reform policies destabilize low income communities.

  • Neoliberalism's War on Higher Education

    by Henry A. Giroux
    Addresses what educators, young people, and concerned citizens can do to reclaim higher education from market-driven neoliberal ideologies.

  • The Age of Knowledge

    Edited by James Dzisah and Henry Etzkowitz
    This volume argues that to understand knowledge itself requires analyzing the social and historical context from which said knowledge springs.

  • The Future of Our Schools

    by Lois Weiner
    Timely and experience-based guide to strengthening democracy within teachers unions.

  • 101 Changemakers

    Edited by Michele Bollinger and Dao X Tran
    101 profiles of social justice leaders that changed the world, made accessible for students in grades 5-9.

  • Education and Capitalism

    Edited by Jeff Bale and Sarah Knopp
    In this collection teachers from across the country unravel the lies spun about public education by corporate board room “reformers.”

  • Schooling In Capitalist America

    by Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis
    A classic work of radical educational theory and a progressive economic vision of equity and equality in America's schools.