#19Nonfiction Reading Challenge 2025 - hosted by bookitqueen

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Books about education explore the art and science of teaching, learning, and shaping minds. They can be anything from innovative teaching methods to educational theory to personal stories and policy discussions. 
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Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle by Chris Hedges

Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle

Chris Hedges

240 pages • hardcover • 2009

nonfiction politics sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Multiplication Is for White People: Raising Expectations for Other People's Children by Lisa Delpit

Multiplication Is for White People: Raising Expectations for Other People's Children

Lisa Delpit

224 pages • hardcover • 2011

nonfiction education race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The Education Wars: A Citizen's Guide and Defense Manual by Jennifer C. Berkshire, Jack Schneider

The Education Wars: A Citizen's Guide and Defense Manual

Jennifer C. Berkshire, Jack Schneider

192 pages • hardcover • 2024

nonfiction education informative fast-paced
Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom by bell hooks

Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom

bell hooks

224 pages • paperback • 1994

nonfiction education feminism informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
Thinking in Systems: A Primer by Donella H. Meadows

Thinking in Systems: A Primer

Donella H. Meadows

6 hours, 26 minutes • audio • 2008

nonfiction business design science informative slow-paced
Failing Our Future: How Grades Harm Students, and What We Can Do about It by Joshua R. Eyler

Failing Our Future: How Grades Harm Students, and What We Can Do about It

Joshua R. Eyler

208 pages • hardcover

nonfiction education
Teach Your Own: The John Holt Book of Homeschooling by John Holt, Pat Farenga

Teach Your Own: The John Holt Book of Homeschooling

John Holt, Pat Farenga

368 pages • paperback • 1981

nonfiction education informative reflective slow-paced
The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League by Jeff Hobbs

The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League

Jeff Hobbs

13 hours • audio • 2014

nonfiction biography race emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools by Monique W. Morris

Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools

Monique W. Morris

8 hours, 55 minutes • audio • 2016

nonfiction education feminism race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Radical Equations: Civil Rights from Mississippi to the Algebra Project by Robert Moses, Charles E. Cobb

Radical Equations: Civil Rights from Mississippi to the Algebra Project

Robert Moses, Charles E. Cobb

8 hours, 57 minutes • audio • 2001 user-added

nonfiction education mathematics challenging informative medium-paced