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In this visionary book, Leslie Valiant argues that understanding the nature of our own educability is crucial to safeguarding our future. After breaking down how we process information to learn and apply knowledge, and drawing comparisons with other animals and AI systems, he explains why education should be humankind's central preoccupation. Will the unique capability that has been so foundational to our achievements and civilization continue to drive our progress, or will we fall victim to our vulnerabilities?

Grounded in extensive research and reporting, Spy Schools reveals how academia has emerged as a frontline in the global spy game. In a knowledge-based economy, universities are repositories of valuable information and research, where brilliant minds of all nationalities mingle freely with few questions asked. Intelligence agencies have always recruited bright undergraduates, but now, in an era when espionage increasingly requires specialized scientific or technological expertise, they're wooing higher-level academics.

“This book is required reading for everyone who cares about education.” —Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Potential and Think Again, and host of the podcast Re:Thinking “Read this book. It’s the most fascinating and important account of how AI will transform...

Chezare A. Warren chronicles the transition of a cohort of young Black males from Urban Prep Charter Academy for Young Men to their early experiences in higher education. A rich and closely observed account of a mission-driven school and its students, Urban Preparation makes a significant contribution to our understanding of how young males of color can best be served in schools throughout the United States today.

America's system of colleges and universities was once the best in the world. It contributed immeasurably to America's status as the most powerful, productive, and prosperous nation on the globe. Unfortunately, those days are long gone. Today from kindergarten through twelfth grade in the government school system, teaching reading, writing, and math have been supplanted by Marxist indoctrination. Our colleges and universities have become the final training grounds and launching pads for the next waves of Marxist activists.

Can a group of well-intentioned people fulfill the promise of racial integration in America? In this searing and deeply researched examination of the promises and realities of racial integration, award-winning Washington Post journalist Laura Meckler aims to uncover where the problem lies and to...

Based in the riches of Christian worship and tradition, this brief, eloquently written introduction to Christian thinking and worldview helps readers put back together again faith and reason, truth and beauty, and the fragmented academic disciplines. By reclaiming the classic liberal arts and...

Why do some children succeed while others fail? The story we usually tell about childhood and success is the one about intelligence: success comes to those who score highest on tests, from preschool admissions to SATs. But in How Children Succeed, Paul Tough argues that the qualities that matter...

 An indictment of the American educational system criticizes the fact that the system has discarded the traditional goals of transmitting knowledge and fostering cognitive skills in favor of building self-esteem and promoting social harmony. 

After 35 years as an education consultant, Rae Pica knows the importance of understanding the natural course of child development. In this collection, she keeps kids front and center as she provides thought-provoking commentary and actionable insights on topics such as the Common Core, the self-esteem movement, and standardized testing.

Brought to you by Penguin. Imagination and creativity are at the root of every uniquely human achievement and those achievements have brought us to this present moment. We are now the largest population in human history: seven and half billion people, rising to nine billion by 2050. Our...

As a teacher in an inner-city school, Lucy Crehan was exasperated with ever-changing government policy claiming to be based on lessons from top-performing education systems. She resolved to find out what was really going on in the classrooms of countries whose teenagers ranked top in the world in reading, maths, and science. Cleverlands documents Crehan's journey around the world, weaving together her experiences with research on policy, history, psychology, and culture to offer extensive new insights into what we can learn from these countries.

In this short and powerful book, celebrated philosopher Martha Nussbaum makes a passionate case for the importance of the liberal arts at all levels of education. Historically, the humanities have been central to education because they have been seen as essential for creating competent democratic citizens. But recently, Nussbaum argues, thinking about the aims of education has gone disturbingly awry in the United States and abroad.

In Education, scholar and reformer Robert Morss Lovett delivers a provocative critique of the American school system in the early twentieth century. Lovett argues that education has become a kind of national “superstition”—an institution assumed to produce social progress merely because...

If you're an educator, you already know the job can feel impossible. The students are distracted, parents are demanding, bureaucracy is exhausting, and somewhere along the way, the calling that once lit you up may have started feeling like a burden. But what if burnout isn't the end of your story? What if it's the invitation to become one of the great ones?

An invitation to engage meaningfully with the experiences of trans and gender non-conforming children by reconsidering the organization of schools and classroom life In recent years, there have been increasing political attacks on transgender young people and LGBT-affirming education in public...

The path to success has changed, and too many students are still being prepared for a world that no longer exists. As college costs rise, careers evolve faster than ever, and artificial intelligence reshapes the workforce, parents, educators, and community leaders are left asking the same urgent question: How do we truly prepare young people for the future? America’s Next Dream offers a powerful new vision for student success in today’s rapidly changing economy.

In this groundbreaking work, renowned media executive Howard Blumenthal (Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?) and leading education researcher Robert C. Pianta challenge everything we think we know about schooling. Drawing from interviews with students across more than seventy countries, along with parents, teachers, and learning experts, Kids on Earth presents a revolutionary "New School" framework that moves beyond traditional educational reform to complete reinvention.

An Amazon Best Non-Fiction Book of 2022 'Essential reading' - The Guardian 'Sharp and witty with moments of startling candour' - The i 'Makes a powerful case' - Rt Hon Lady Hale ‘Revealing and beautifully written’ - David Harewood ________ Before Jeffrey Boakye was a black teacher, he was a...

Tomorrow Starts TodayTwo Ways to Educate a Child. Two Futures for Humanity. What if the way we educate children is quietly shaping the future of civilisation? In Tomorrow Starts Today, authors Marcos and Hayley Tabasso invite listeners to question one of the most influential systems in modern society. Not to criticise teachers or schools, but to explore whether an education model designed for the Industrial Age is still preparing children for the world they are about to inherit.