Education audiobooks

The Self-Driven Child

By: William Stixrud, PhD & Ned Johnson

Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith

Length: 11 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

“Instead of trusting kids with choices . . . many parents insist on micromanaging everything from homework to friendships. For these parents, Stixrud and Johnson have a simple message: Stop.” —NPR

“This humane, thoughtful book turns the latest brain science into valuable practical advice for parents.” —Paul Tough, New York Times bestselling... Read more

What We Talk About When We Talk About Books

By: Leah Price

Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Reports of the death of reading are greatly exaggerated Do you worry that you've lost patience for anything longer than a tweet? If so, you're not alone. Digital-age pundits warn that as our appetite for books dwindles, so too do the virtues in which printed, bound objects once trained us: the willpower to focus on a sustained argument, the... Read more

The Good Neighbor

By: Maxwell King

Narrated by: LeVar Burton

Length: 14 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Fred Rogers (1928–2003) was an enormously influential figure in the history of television and in the lives of tens of millions of children. As the creator and star of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, he was a champion of compassion, equality, and kindness. Rogers was fiercely devoted to children and to taking their fears, concerns, and questions... Read more

Witness

By: Ariel Burger

Narrated by: Jason Culp

Length: 8 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

In the vein of Tuesdays with Morrie, a devoted protégé and friend of one of the world’s great thinkers takes us into the sacred space of the classroom, showing Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Elie Wiesel not only as an extraordinary human being, but as a master teacher.The world remembers Elie Wiesel—Nobel laureate, activist,... Read more

Reading with Patrick

By: Michelle Kuo

Narrated by: Michelle Kuo

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

“In all of the literature addressing education, race, poverty, and criminal justice, there has been nothing quite like Reading with Patrick.”—The Atlantic

A memoir of the life-changing friendship between an idealistic young teacher and her gifted student, jailed for murder in the Mississippi Delta

FINALIST FOR THE DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE

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The Etymologicon

By: Mark Forsyth

Narrated by: Don Hagen

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Do you know why…

…a mortgage is literally a death pledge? …why guns have girls’ names? …why salt is related to soldier?

You’re about to find out…

The Etymologicon (e-t?-‘mä-lä-ji-kän) is:
*Witty (wi-te\): Full of clever humor
*Erudite (er-?-dit): Showing knowledge
*Ribald (ri-b?ld): Crude, offensive


The Etymologicon is a completely unauthorized guide... Read more

They Say, I Say

By: Cathy Birkenstein & Gerald Graff

Narrated by: Tony Craine & Cyndee Maxwell

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The best-selling book on academic writing—in use at more than 1,500 schools.

“They Say / I Say” identifies the key rhetorical moves in academic writing, showing students how to frame their arguments in the larger context of what others have said and providing templates to help them make those moves. And, because these moves are central across all... Read more

Middle School Makeover

By: Michelle Icard

Narrated by: Rose Itzcovitz

Length: 4 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Middle School Makeover is a guide for parents and educators to help the tweens in their lives navigate the socially fraught hallways, gyms, and cafeterias of middle school. The audiobook helps parents, teachers, and other adults in middle school settings to understand the social dilemmas and other issues that kids today face. Author Michelle... Read more

The Horologicon

By: Mark Forsyth

Narrated by: Don Hagen

Length: 6 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Do you wake up feeling rough? Then you’re philogrobolized.

Find yourself pretending to work? That’s fudgelling.

And this could lead to rizzling, if you feel sleepy after lunch. Though you are sure to become a sparkling deipnosopbist by dinner. Just don’t get too vinomadefied; a drunk dinner companion is never appreciated.

The Horologicon (or book... Read more

Religious Literacy

By: Stephen Prothero

Narrated by: Stephen Prothero

Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

What's Your Religious Literacy IQ? Quick—can you: Name the four Gospels? Name a sacred text of Hinduism? Name the holy book of Islam? Name the first five books of the Hebrew Bible or the Christian Old Testament?Name the Ten Commandments? Name the Four Noble Truths of Buddhism? If you can't, you're not alone. We are a religiously illiterate... Read more

Making a Difference

By: Chesley B. Sullenberger

Narrated by: Chesley B. Sullenberger & Michael McConnohie

Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the most captivating heroes of the last decade and the author of the New York Times bestseller Highest Duty explores the nature of leadership with some of America's best and brightestAt a time of political polarization and economic turmoil, we yearn for superior leadership. Few have demonstrated this trait better than Captain ""Sully""... Read more

Radical

By: Michelle Rhee

Narrated by: Shannon McManus

Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The United States is known as a world leader in innovation, boasting brilliant thinkers and trendsetting companies, but that status is at grave risk. American children are well outside the top-ten international student rankings in reading, science, and math; those rankings—not to mention the nation's position of leadership on everything from the... Read more

You Are Not Special

By: David McCullough, Jr.

Narrated by: David McCullough, Jr.

Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

David McCullough, Jr.'s high school commencement address of 2012, dubbed "You Are Not Special," was a tonic for children, parents, and educators alike. With wit and a perspective earned from raising four children and teaching high school students for nearly thirty years, McCullough expands on his speech—taking a hard look at hovering parents,... Read more

Fluent in 3 Months

By: Benny Lewis

Narrated by: Benny Lewis

Length: 6 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Benny Lewis, who speaks over ten languages—all self-taught—runs the largest language-learning blog in the world, Fluent In 3 Months. Lewis is a full-time "language hacker," someone who devotes all of his time to finding better, faster, and more efficient ways to learn languages. Fluent in 3 Months: How Anyone at Any Age Can Learn to Speak Any... Read more

Thinking Differently

By: David Flink

Narrated by: Roger Wayne

Length: 6 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

An innovative, comprehensive guide—the first of its kind—to help parents understand and accept learning disabilities in their children, offering tips and strategies for successfully advocating on their behalf and helping them become their own best advocates.In Thinking Differently, David Flink, the leader of Eye to Eye—a national mentoring... Read more

God and Man at Yale

By: William F. Buckley

Narrated by: Michael Edwards

Length: 6 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the book that launched Buckley's career—and a movement. As a young recent graduate, Buckley took on Yale's professional and administrative staffs, citing their hypocritical withdrawal from the tenets upon which the institution was built. Yale was founded on the belief that God exists, and thus virtue and individualism represent immutable... Read more

Choosing a College

By: Thomas Sowell

Narrated by: Robert Morris

Length: 6 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

This book starts you at square one: before you know what questions to ask, what colleges to read about, or what statistics to look up. Sowell pulls no punches as he candidly describes the inner and outer workings of scores of American colleges and universities, big and small. He gives equal attention to special programs, financial aid, and the... Read more

Basic Economics

By: Clarence B. Carson

Narrated by: Christopher Hurt

Length: 16 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

This sound primer of basic economics tells all you ever wanted to know but were afraid to ask about money, the market, prices, monopoly, competition, land, labor, capital, entrepreneurs, the Federal Reserve, and the distribution of wealth. For those desiring to educate themselves in economic principles, Carson will give you the tools to debate... Read more

Innovation and Entrepreneurship

By: Peter F. Drucker

Narrated by: Michael Wells

Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the first book to present innovation and entrepreneurship as a purposeful and systematic discipline. It clearly explains and analyzes the challenges and opportunities of America’s new entrepreneurial economy. Peter Drucker, the most influential and widely-read thinker and writer on modern organizations, gives us a superbly practical book... Read more

The Hollow Men

By: Charles J. Sykes

Narrated by: Michael Wells

Length: 11 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

College curriculums that were once centered on instruction in the classics of Western civilization have become smorgasbords where almost anything qualifies as a course in the liberal arts and where political conformity is enforced by professors. Stanford University, caving in to demands from the Black Student Union (“We don’t want to read any... Read more

The Education of Henry Adams

By: Henry Adams

Narrated by: Wolfram Kandinsky

Length: 21 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Few works have so firmly established their position in American literature as The Education of Henry Adams. As a man of extraordinary gifts and learning and a member of one of the greatest American families, Henry Adams wrote an insightful exploration of himself and the tumultuous age in which he lived. In the words of Van Wyck Brooks, he... Read more

Up from Slavery

By: Booker T. Washington

Narrated by: Noah Waterman

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Booker T. Washington fought his way out of slavery to become an educator, statesman, political shaper, and proponent of the “do it yourself” idea. In his autobiography, he describes his early life as a slave on a Virginia plantation, his steady rise during the Civil War, his struggle for education, his schooling at the Hampton Institute, and his... Read more

The Schools We Need

By: E. D. Hirsch

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 12 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A child’s mind is hungry for knowledge, stimulation, and the excitement of learning which school should provide—yet most American schools fall far short. From kindergarten through high school, our public educational system is among the worst in the developed world. In disdaining content-based curricula for abstract (and discredited) theories of... Read more

The English Governess at the Siamese Court

By: Anna Harriette Leonowens

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

This 1870 memoir, which was the basis for the musical The King and I, vividly recounts the experiences of Anna Harriette Leonowens, who served as a governess for the sixty-plus children of King Mongkut of Siam and as translator and scribe for the King himself. Bright, young, and energetic, Leonowens was well-suited to her role, and her writings... Read more