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Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteachers Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling
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9780865716315, titled "Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling" | New Society Pub, January 1, 2009, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: “Gatto draws on thirty years in the classroom and many years of research as a school reformer.
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9780865716698, titled "Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling" | Reprint edition (New Society Pub, April 1, 2010), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: John Taylor Gatto’s Weapons of Mass Instruction, now available in paperback, focuses on mechanisms of traditional education that cripple imagination, discourage critical thinking, and create a false view of learning as a byproduct of rote-memorization drills.
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9780865715196 | Collectors edition (New Society Pub, March 30, 2005), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: A highly praised bestseller for over a decade, Dumbing Us Down is a radical treatise on public education that concludes that compulsory government schooling does little but teach young people to follow orders like cogs in a machine.
9780865712300 | New Society Pub, September 1, 1991, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: With over 70,000 copies of the first edition in print, this radical treatise on public education has been a New Society Publishers’ bestseller for 10 years!
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9780865714489 | New Society Pub, April 1, 2002, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: With over 70,000 copies of the first edition in print, this radical treatise on public education has been a New Society Publishers’ bestseller for 10 years!
9780865712317 | New Society Pub, September 1, 1991, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: With over 70,000 copies of the first edition in print, this radical treatise on public education has been a New Society Publishers’ bestseller for 10 years!
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9781893163423 | 2 edition (Berkeley Hills Books, August 1, 2002), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: These 13 essays, presented at the 1993 National Grassroots Speakout on the Right to School Choice, illustrate how education reform actually works.
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9781893163218 | Berkeley Hills Books, January 1, 2001, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: A collection of essays and articles written by a New York City teacher exposes a system designed to promote economic and business interests and advocates a greater emphasis on teaching critical thinking skills.
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9781893163409 | Berkeley Hills Books, April 1, 2002, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: A collection of essays and articles written by a New York City teacher exposes a system designed to promote economic and business interests and advocates a greater emphasis on teaching critical thinking skills.
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9780945700043 | Odysseus Group, November 1, 2000, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: "Crisis in Education from problem to opportunity.
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9781878115119 | Down to Earth Books, October 1, 1996, cover price $14.95
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9780945700029 | Smith & Varina Pub, January 1, 1993, cover price $10.95
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9780945700005 | Smith & Varina Pub, January 1, 1990, cover price $34.95
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9780671009663 | Reissue edition (Monarch Notes, March 1, 1972), cover price $3.95
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