Start with high-confidence philosophy of education books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
Battle for the American Mind
Pete Hegseth, David Goodwin
Teaching As a Subversive Activity
Neil Postman
Riches for the Poor
Earl Shorris
The Call of Stories
Robert Coles
Working the Ruins
Elizabeth St. Pierre, Wanda Pillow
The Essential Montessori
Elizabeth G. Hainstock
Inside American Education
Thomas Sowell
Dumbing US Down - 25th Anniversary Edition
John Taylor Gatto
The Liberating Arts
Jeffrey Bilbro, Jessica Hooten Wilson
God and Man at Yale
William F. Buckley
