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Title	Author	Category	Publisher
The new IQ 2013	Dr Tracy Alloway and Dr Ross Alloway	Education theory	4th Estate
Why don't students like school?: a cognitive scientist answers questions about how the mind works and what it means for the classroom 2009	Professor Dan Willingham	Education theory	Jossey-Bass
Building a better teacher: how teaching works (and how to teach it to everyone) 2014	Elizabeth Green	Education theory	W W Norton and Company
Measuring up: what educational testing really tells us 2009	Professor Daniel Koretz	Education theory	Harvard University Press
What every parent needs to know: how to help your child get the most out of primary school 2014	Tony Young and Miranda Thomas	Education theory	Penguin Books
How to run an Academy school 2014	Katie Paxton-Doggett	Education theory	Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators
Nudge: improving decisions about health, wealth and happiness 2008	Dr Richard H Thaler and Professor Cass Sunstein	Education theory	Penguin Books
Teaching today November 2014	Geoff Petty	Education theory	Oxford University Press
Aristotelian character education April 2016	Professor Kristján Kristjánsson	Character and non-cognitive development Education theory Pupil development and support +2 more	Routledge
High performance learning January 2016	Professor Deborah Eyre	Education theory Social mobility / closing the gap Spiritual, moral, social and cultural education (SMSC) +2 more	Routledge
The Trivium in practice June 2016	Martin Robinson	Arts and humanities Education theory Teaching/classroom practice +1 more	Crown House Publishing
Education is upside-down: reframing reform to focus on the right problems October 2014	Eric Kalenze	Education policy Education theory Teaching/classroom practice +1 more	Rowman and Littlefield
Summerhill: a radical approach to child rearing 1960	Alexander Sutherland Neill	Character and non-cognitive development Education research Education theory +6 more	Hart Publishing
Ouroboros September 2016	Greg Ashman	Education research Education theory View all	Greg Ashman
Why knowledge matters: rescuing our children from failed educational theories September 2016	Dr Eric D. Hirsch, Jr	Curriculum planning Education policy Education research +4 more	Harvard Education Publishing Group
Battle hymn of the tiger teachers: the Michaela way November 2016	Katharine Birbalsingh	Behaviour Education policy Education theory +7 more	John Catt Educational
A taxonomy for learning, teaching, and assessing: a revision of Bloom's taxonomy of educational objectives December 2000 (Abridged updated version, 2013)	Professor Lorin W. Anderson, David R. Krathwohl and Peter W. Airasian	Education theory Learning styles and cognitive development Pupil development and support +1 more	Oxford Education Press
The bell curve: intelligence and class structure in American life 1994	Doctor Richard Herrnstein and Doctor Charles Murray	Education theory Learning styles and cognitive development View all	The Free Press
Self-concept mediates the relation between achievement and emotions in mathematics April 2017	Doctor Jojanneke P. J. Van der Beek, Doctor Sanne H. G. Van der Ven, Doctor Evelyn H. Kroesbergen and Professor Paul P. M. Leseman	Education research Education theory Science/(STEM) +1 more	British Journal of Educational Psychology
Cognitive load theory March 2011	Professor John Sweller, Professor Paul Ayres and Professor Slava Kalyuga	Education theory View all	Springer

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