Education audiobooks

The Leader's Bookshelf

By: ADM. James Stavridis, USN (Ret.) & R. Manning A...

Narrated by: Bob Souer

Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

For the last several years Adm. James Stavridis and his co-author, R. Manning Ancell, have surveyed over two hundred active and retired four-star military officers about their reading habits and favorite books, asking each for a list of titles that strongly influenced their leadership skills and provided them with special insights that helped... Read more

These Schools Belong to You and Me

By: Deborah Meier & Emily Gasoi

Narrated by: Lorna Raver & Emily Zeller

Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

A challenge to narrow, profit-driven conceptions of school success and an argument for protecting public education to ensure that all students become competent citizens in a vibrant democracy

In These Schools Belong to You and Me, MacArthur award–winning educator, reformer, and author Deborah Meier draws on her fifty-plus years of experience to... Read more

Personalized learning can put college in reach for nontraditional students

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A program in Arizona supports nontraditional students who want to pursue degrees at their own speed. Much like a Netflix subscription, the new program lets students pay a flat fee for a personalized curriculum that works within their schedules. Hari Sreenivasan reports on how Northern Arizona University is putting bachelor's degrees within reach... Read more

Little Soldiers

By: Lenora Chu

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller

Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

In the spirit of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, Bringing up Bébé, and The Smartest Kids in the World, a hard-hitting exploration of China’s widely acclaimed yet insular education system—held up as a model of academic and behavioral excellence—that raises important questions for the future of American parenting and education.When students in... Read more

How To Become The Best Teacher You Can Be

By: HowExpert & Rachel Sawyer

Narrated by: Joanne Trimble

Length: 1 hour 8 minutes

Abridged: No

When we look back at our lives, we always remember those few amazing teachers that have made a positive impact in our lives. The term 'favorite teacher' doesn't mean you are always the popular teacher, but the teacher that the kids respect and remember the positive impact you had on them.This book is written by a teacher who has impacted the... Read more

Speed Reading

By: Ryan James

Narrated by: Sam Slydell

Length: 1 hour 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Do you want to: Study better? Be able to read faster and retain more information? Make more efficient notes? Pass tests more successfully? Be more creative? Engage in business armed with great focus and full comprehension? Be able to read one book a day?
Then speed reading is the answer! It improves your reading speed, focus, and comprehension!... Read more

Don't Pay for Your MBA

By: Laurie Pickard

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 5 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Who needs a mountain of debt? Each year, the nation's top business schools are flooded with applications from people eager to pursue their MBA dreams. But those aspirations come at a steep price. According to U.S. News and World Report, the average debt load for graduates of NYU's Stern School of Business, MIT's Sloan School of Management, and... Read more

Delegación y supervisión

By: Brian Tracy

Narrated by: Johnny Pena

Length: 2 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Delegación y supervisiónLos gerentes son juzgados por los resultados que entregan— y más que nada, esos resultados giran en torno a la habilidad de delegar y supervisar. Te sorprenderás cuan eficiente y fácil de manejar se convierte tu equipo cuando hayas dominado estas habilidades. Esta práctica guía de bolsillo revela estrategias comprobadas... Read more

Drama High

By: Michael Sokolove

Narrated by: Mark Deakins

Length: 10 hours

Abridged: No

The inspiration for the NBC TV series "Rise," starring Josh Radnor, Auli'i Cravalho, and Rosie Perez — the incredible and true story of an extraordinary drama teacher who has changed the lives of thousands of students and inspired a town. By the author of The Last Temptation of Rick Pitino. 

Why would the multimillionaire producer of Cats, The... Read more

Egg and Soldiers

By: Miles Jupp

Narrated by: Miles Jupp

Length: 6 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

'A gloriously enjoyable read from start to finish' - Daily Express

'Here's a book to savour' - Mail on Sunday

Miles Jupp (News Quiz presenter, star of Rev, I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue and The Thick Of It) delves into the mind of his comedy creation Damien Trench - urbane food writer and protagonist of BBC Radio 4's acclaimed sitcom In and Out of... Read more

Defining Moments in Black History

By: Dick Gregory

Narrated by: James Shippy

Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

With his trademark acerbic wit, incisive humor, and infectious paranoia, one of our foremost comedians and most politically engaged civil rights activists looks back at 100 key events from the complicated history of black America.A friend of luminaries including Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Medgar Evers, and the forebear of today’s popular... Read more

The New Education

By: Cathy N. Davidson

Narrated by: Carolyn Cook

Length: 11 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

A leading educational thinker argues that the American university is stuck in the past -- and shows how we can revolutionize it for our era of constant change

Our current system of higher education dates to the period from 1865 to 1925. It was in those decades that the nation's new universities created grades and departments, majors and minors,... Read more

Reinventing America's Schools

By: David Osborne

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 14 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

In 2005, when Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, the city got an unexpected opportunity to recreate their school system from scratch. The state's Recovery School District (RSD), created to turn around failing schools, gradually transformed all of its New Orleans schools into charter schools, and the results are shaking the very... Read more

Champions Way

By: Mike McIntire

Narrated by: Barry Abrams

Length: 6 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Champions Way is a searing exposé of how the multibillion-dollar college sports empire fails universities, students, and athletes.



College sports have never been bigger. Once a roughneck intercollegiate pastime, football now commands millions of fans and generates massive revenues. New York Times investigative reporter Mike McIntire chronicles... Read more

The Most Important Year

By: Suzanne Bouffard

Narrated by: Thérèse Plummer

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

An eye-opening look inside pre-K in America and what it will take to give all children the best start in school possible.


At the heart of this groundbreaking book are two urgent questions: What do our young children need in the earliest years of school, and how do we ensure that they all get it? Cutting-edge research has proven that early... Read more

Les malheurs de Sophie

By: La comtesse de Ségur

Narrated by: Macha Grenon

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Chaque fois que l’on évoque la Comtesse de Ségur, cette grand-mère qui écrivait pour ses petits-enfants, les souvenirs fusent. Les mœurs ont bien changé depuis cette époque, mais les enfants, beaucoup moins. Ils se reconnaissent toujours dans les espiègleries et les maladresses de Sophie.  Read more

Learn German with Stories: Ahoi Aus Hamburg - 10 Short Stories for Beginners

By: André Klein

Narrated by: André Klein

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: No

Experience the fifth episode of the Dino lernt Deutsch story series for German learners on your stereo or headphones, at home or on the go! The narration speed and style of this audiobook is aimed at beginners, with special emphasis on clear pronunciation, so that you can easily pause and repeat words and phrases whenever you please. Immerse... Read more

I Wish My Teacher Knew

By: Kyle Schwartz

Narrated by: Allyson Ryan

Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

One day, third-grade teacher Kyle Schwartz asked her students to fill-in-the-blank in this sentence: "I wish my teacher knew _____." The results astounded her.



Some answers were humorous, others were heartbreaking—all were profoundly moving and enlightening. The results opened her eyes to the need for educators to understand the unique realities... Read more

Colorado apprenticeship program turns the factory floor into a classroom

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Some high school students in Colorado may get prime jobs even before they get their diplomas. That’s because CareerWise, the nation’s first statewide youth apprenticeship program, links students to industries and addresses manufacturers’ demand for skills, while offering employment, academic credit and support for college. Hari Sreenivasan... Read more

Speaking of Behaviour Change

By: Anthony Peters

Narrated by: Anthony Peters

Length: 2 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Specifically written for therapists and change practitioners, this book is an essential resource for professionals who help improve the wellbeing of other people. Laid out in a structured and easy to follow format, this step-by-step book provides the linguistic knowledge and techniques to successfully influence behaviour change via words and... Read more

Think Better Analytically

By: Instafo & Meredith Larissa

Narrated by: Instafo

Length: 40 minutes

Abridged: No

An Analysis of Your Own Thinking
Over the past few years, there have been many different types of thinking that have emerged, promoted as the best one: positive thinking, out-of-the-box thinking, critical thinking, and so on.
How does one obtain these magical thought processes? Really, all these varieties of thinking are related to analytical... Read more

Violated

By: Paula Lavigne & Mark Schlabach

Narrated by: Therese Plummer

Length: 11 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Written by ESPN investigative reporters Violated narrates the sexual abuse by members of Baylor's football team and the university's attempt to silence the victims. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to RAINN to help fight sexual abuse.

Throughout its history, Baylor University has presented itself as something special: As the world's... Read more

Critical Thinking Junkie

By: Howie Junkie

Narrated by: How-To Junkie

Length: 36 minutes

Abridged: No

From the Desk of the How-To Junkie for the "Critical Thinking Junkie":

Howdy friend, who wants "to develop critical thinking,"

In the old days where famous Greek philosophers - like Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle - would conglomerate in the public square Agora of Athens, people from all over would gather around to listen attentively to... Read more

Motivación

By: Brian Tracy

Narrated by: Johnny Pena

Length: 3 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

MotivaciónComo gerente, una de tus responsabilidades más importantes es motivar a tus empleados a dar lo mejor. Los gerentes que crean ambientes positivos, gratificantes y de mucha energía reducen el absentismo y los reemplazos, mientras incrementan dramáticamente la productividad y calidad. En Motivación, el experto en éxito Brian Tracy se basa... Read more