Making the Grades: My Misadventures in the Standardized Testing Industry

10 best books like Making the Grades: My Misadventures in the Standardized Testing Industry (Todd Farley): How to Be an Antiracist, Peace Like a River, The Sociopath Next Door, How Children Learn, Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World, The Man They Wanted Me to Be: Toxic Masculinity and a Crisis of Our Own Making, Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason, Mountain Man Dance Moves: The McSweeney's Book of Lists, The Homework Myth: Why Our Kids Get Too Much of a Bad Thing, Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise and Other Bribes

How to Be an Antiracist

Author	Ibram X. Kendi
ISBN	0525509283

Ibram X. Kendi's concept of antiracism reenergizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justice in America--but even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other. In How to be an Antiracist, Kendi asks us to think about what an antiracist...

Peace Like a River

Author	Leif Enger
ISBN	0802139256

Once in a great while, we encounter a novel in our voluminous reading that begs to be read aloud. Leif Enger's debut, Peace Like a River, is one such work. His richly evocative novel, narrated by an asthmatic 11-year-old named Reuben Land, is the story of Reuben's unusual family and their journey across...

The Sociopath Next Door

Author	Martha Stout
ISBN	0767915828

Who is the devil you know?

Is it your lying, cheating ex-husband?
Your sadistic high school gym teacher?
Your boss who loves to humiliate people in meetings?
The colleague who stole your idea and passed it off as her own?

In the pages of The Sociopath Next Door, you will...

How Children Learn

Author	John Holt
ISBN	0201484048

This enduring classic of educational thought offers teachers and parents deep, original insight into the nature of early learning. John Holt was the first to make clear that, for small children, “learning is as natural as breathing.” In this delightful yet profound book, he looks at how we learn...

Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World

Author	Anand Giridharadas
ISBN	0451493249

An insider's groundbreaking investigation of how the global elite's efforts to "change the world" preserve the status quo and obscure their role in causing the problems they later seek to solve.

Former New York Times columnist Anand Giridharadas takes us into the inner sanctums of a new gilded...

The Man They Wanted Me to Be: Toxic Masculinity and a Crisis of Our Own Making

Author

Jared Yates Sexton

The author of The People Are Going to Rise Upon Your Shore turns his keen eye to our current crisis of masculinity using his upbringing in a rural, patriarchal home as an entry point to consider the personal and societal dangers of performative gender

Based on his provocative and popular New...

Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason

Author	Alfie Kohn
ISBN	0743487486

Most parenting guides begin with the question "How can we get kids to do what they're told?" — and then proceed to offer various techniques for controlling them. In this truly groundbreaking book, nationally respected educator Alfie Kohn begins instead by asking "What do kids need — and how can...

Mountain Man Dance Moves: The McSweeney's Book of Lists

Author

McSweeney's Publishing

If a mountain man felt compelled to dance, how would he do it? If koala bears could talk, what would they say? And what’s the right pickup line, if you’re a necrophiliac? (Maybe “I’m pretty sure I’m not going to get you pregnant.”)
 
In the throes of debates like these, we’re lucky...

The Homework Myth: Why Our Kids Get Too Much of a Bad Thing

Author	Alfie Kohn
ISBN	0738210854

Death and taxes come later; what seems inevitable for children is the idea that, after spending the day at school, they must then complete more academic assignments at home. The predictable results: stress and conflict, frustration and exhaustion. Parents respond by reassuring themselves that...

Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise and Other Bribes

Author	Alfie Kohn
ISBN	0395710901

The basic strategy we use for raising children, teaching students, and managing workers can be summarized in six words: Do this and you'll get that. We dangle goodies (from candy bars to sales commissions) in front of people in much the same way we train the family pet. Drawing on a wealth of psychological...