reviews

25 Mar 2008

The Natural Child: Parenting from the Heart

cover of The Natural Child: Parenting from the Heart
by Jan Hunt
Paperback
$11.53 USD

The Natural Child makes a compelling case for a return to attachment parenting, a child-rearing approach that has come naturally for parents throughout most of human history. In this insightful guide, parenting specialist Jan Hunt links together attachment parenting principles with child advocacy and homeschooling philosophies, offering a consistent approach to raising a loving, trusting, and confident child.  read more »

4
Average: 4 (1 vote)
18 Mar 2008

Home Education Magazine

cover of Home Education Magazine
Magazine
$32.00 USD

Covers home schooling and alternative education.

1
Average: 1 (1 vote)
18 Mar 2008

Life Learning

cover of Life Learning
Magazine
$27.00 USD

The international magazine of self-directed learning is North America's new homeschooling magazine. It is dedicated to providing trustworthy, inspiring information and discussion about self-directed learning and relaxed homeschooling (often called "deschooling").

5
Average: 5 (2 votes)
18 Mar 2008

Homeschooling Our Children Unschooling Ourselves

cover of Homeschooling Our Children Unschooling Ourselves
by Alison McKee
Paperback
$18.00 USD

A compelling story about one family's journey into the unknown territory of homeschooling, told with skill by Alison McKee, a gifted teacher with a wide experience in traditional education and a special sensitivity to the individual needs of children. Trusting her own children to "show me the way" was a difficult challenge - but one that gave unexpected and rich rewards. Anyone familiar with the writings of John Holt will be interested to learn how things worked out for a family that decided to test his belief that children are the best directors of their own education.  read more »

5
Average: 5 (1 vote)
17 Mar 2008

Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

cover of Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
by John Taylor Gatto
Paperback
$10.36 USD

This radical treatise on public education has been a New Society Publishers' bestseller for 10 years! Thirty years of award-winning teaching in New York City's public schools led John Gatto to the sad conclusion that compulsory governmental schooling does little but teach young people to follow orders as cogs in the industrial machine. In celebration of the ten-year anniversary of Dumbing Us Down and to keep this classic current, we are renewing the cover art, adding new material about John and the impact of the book, and a new Foreword.

4.666665
Average: 4.7 (3 votes)
17 Mar 2008

Teach Your Own: The John Holt Book of Homeschooling

cover of Teach Your Own: The John Holt Book of Homeschooling
by John Holt
Pat Farenga
Paperback
$12.89 USD

The classic work on teaching children at home, updated for today's new laws, new lifestyles, and a new generation of homeschooling parents. Today more than one and a half million children are being taught at home by their own parents. In this expanded edition of the book that helped launch the whole movement, Pat Farenga has distilled John Holt's timeless understanding of the ways children come to understand the world and added up-to-the-moment practical advice.  read more »

5
Average: 5 (1 vote)
17 Mar 2008

The Unschooling Handbook : How to Use the Whole World As Your Child's Classroom

cover of The Unschooling Handbook : How to Use the Whole World As Your Child's Classroom
by Mary Griffith
Paperback
$11.53 USD

Unschooling, a homeschooling method based on the belief that kids learn best when allowed to pursue their natural curiosities and interests, is practiced by 10 to 15 percent of the estimated 1.5 million homeschoolers in the United States. There is no curriculum or master plan for allowing children to decide when, what, and how they will learn, but veteran homeschooler Mary Griffith comes as close as you can get in this slim manual.  read more »

3.5
Average: 3.5 (2 votes)
17 Mar 2008

Accepted (Widescreen Edition)

cover of Accepted (Widescreen Edition)
DVD
$10.49 USD

Justin Long has been hovering on the edges of movies like The Break-Up and Dodgeball, providing little comic bursts that are often funnier than the rest of the movie. In Accepted, Long plays Bartleby Gaines, a fast-talking slacker who, when he gets rejected by every college he applied to, invents a phony college to get his parents off his back. Unfortunately, the website his best friend creates is too effective--hundreds of other rejects apply and are accepted.  read more »

4.666665
Average: 4.7 (3 votes)
17 Mar 2008

The Unprocessed Child: Living Without School

cover of The Unprocessed Child: Living Without School
by Valerie Fitzenreiter
Paperback
$10.17 USD

The Unprocessed Child is a work of nonfiction about a child raised with no coercion and no curriculum. Laurie Chancey spent her childhood immersing herself in topics of her own choosing. She was never forced to learn something simply because tradition and/or society said it was necessary. No one was looking over her shoulder to make sure she was learning the "proper" subjects.

Having never seen a textbook or taken a test, never used workbooks or any type of teaching techniques, Laurie scored in the top 10% of the state of Louisiana on her college entrance exam.  read more »

5
Average: 5 (1 vote)