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HRP's books of the month. Our recommendations for educators. Affiliate links available at https://bookshop.org/shop/humrespro
        
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    November: Manufacturing Happy Citizens by Edgar Cabanas & Eva Illouz
            Manufacturing Happy Citizens: How the Science and Industry of Happiness Control Our Lives by Edgar Cabanas & Eva Illouz provides a convincing condemnation of "positive psychology", the relatively recent scientific study of happiness.
        
Chris McNutt

    12 Nov 2020
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    August: Radical Teacher, Academic Journal
            Published by the University of Pittsburgh, Radical Teacher is a self-described socialist, feminist, and anti-racist journal founded in 1975. Since 2013, the entire publication is accessible for free online, double peer-reviewed, and filled with in-depth articles.
        
Chris McNutt

    23 Aug 2020
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    Book Review: At What Cost?
            David Gleason paints a dire picture of the pressure we put on adolescents and convincingly insists that it is us - and not the students - who need to change.
        
Dan Kearney

    21 Jul 2020
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    July: “You Can’t Fire the Bad Ones!” by William Ayers, Crystal Laura, and Rick Ayers
            “You Can’t Fire the Bad Ones!” And 18 Other Myths About Teachers, Teachers’ Unions, and Public Education by William Ayers, Crystal Laura, and Rick Ayers provides a quick-to-understand, ready-to-read breakdown of the common assaults against public education and its workers.
        
Chris McNutt

    7 Jul 2020
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    June: Can 2020 Be the Year of Radical Hope?
            What we absolutely can and should do, however, is define our work as educators biased toward life-affirming, student-centered, inclusive praxis and create a space where we can do the work of reversing the decomposition... a Radical Hope.
        
Nick Covington

    8 Jun 2020
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    May: The Art of Critical Pedagogy by Jeffrey M.R. Duncan-Andrade and Ernest Morrell
            The Art of Critical Pedagogy provides an overview of the concept of critical pedagogy, showcases why it is needed in urban contexts, and provides three case studies of what it actually looks like in practice.
        
Chris McNutt

    18 May 2020
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    April: The Right to Learn: A Blueprint for Creating Schools That Work by Linda Darling-Hammond
            Darling-Hammond’s work, which is nearly 400 pages with 200 citations, is a formative review of inner-working and issues within the United States education system, and perfectly captures the need for progressive policies.
        
Chris McNutt

    15 Apr 2020
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    March: Range by David Epstein
            Do specialists actually get better with experience or not, and is narrow, deliberate practice the only way to achieve greatness in a given field?
        
Nick Covington

    31 Mar 2020
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    February: The End of Homework: How Homework Disrupts Families, Overburdens Children, and Limits Learning by Etta Kralovec and John Buell
            The End of Homework by Etta Kralovec and John Buell offers a succinct and researched account of why homework does little to actually improve academic performance, and instead hurts a family’s overall well-being.
        
Chris McNutt

    9 Feb 2020
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    January: “The Case for Constructivist Classrooms”
            ...constructivism has been a consistent but controversial and often caricatured counterweight to the recurring top-down reform movements — rooted in accountability and standardized test scores — that have defined the last 30 years of the educational debate.
        
Nick Covington

    27 Jan 2020
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    December: The Labor of Lunch: Why We Need Real Food and Real Jobs in American Public Schools by Jennifer E. Gaddis
            The Labor of Lunch by Jennifer E. Gaddis is a treatise on the United States school lunch system: its history, battle over nutritional quality, and those who are fighting to change it.
        
Chris McNutt

    17 Nov 2019
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    November: An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States for Young People by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, adapted by Jean Mendoza and Debbie Reese
            An Indigenous Peoples’ History consistently poses questions that counteract misinformation about Native communities, specifically stories that are usually taught in elementary school
        
Chris McNutt

    3 Nov 2019
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    October: The Schools Our Children Deserve by Alfie Kohn
            In contrast with the methods books I had read for coursework and professional development, Kohn’s voice spoke to me with an urgency, a moral weight and clarity which framed dry topics...
        
Nick Covington

    26 Sep 2019
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    September: Free School Teaching: A Journey into Radical Progressive Education by Kristan Accles Morrison
            Free School Teaching: A Journey into Radical Progressive Education by Kristan Accles Morrison is an exemplar of what self-directed, progressive schooling looks like.
        
Chris McNutt

    2 Sep 2019
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    August: White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson
            ...white rage through the most explosive periods in America’s racial history, which the reader comes to understand through the brutal clarity and consistent facts of the historical narrative.
        
Nick Covington

    25 Jul 2019
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    July: We Got This: Equity, Access, and the Quest to Be Who Our Students Need Us to Be by Cornelius Minor
            We Got This is part personal narrative, part Paulo Freire critical pedagogy, and part comic book allegory. It’s a fascinating look at how a current public school teacher disrupts the status quo so his students have every possibility to achieve.
        
Chris McNutt

    12 Jul 2019
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    June: The Book of Learning and Forgetting by Frank Smith
            The Book of Learning and Forgetting is a simple book in the best way possible. A 120-page, Q&A filled, assurance that students are learning all the time.
        
Chris McNutt

    24 May 2019
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    May: Why They Can’t Write by John Warner
            John Warner’s message is clear in Why They Can’t Write: we need to restore purpose to writing (and all curriculum) by removing antiquated “structure.
        
Chris McNutt

    27 Apr 2019
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