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The Underground History of American Education

The Underground History of American Education

by John Taylor Gatto

Teach Your Own: The John Holt Book of Homeschooling

Teach Your Own: The John Holt Book of Homeschooling

by John Holt, Pat Farenga

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... (more)

Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

by John Taylor Gatto

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... (more)

Charlotte Mason's Original Homeschooling Series

Charlotte Mason's Original Homeschooling Series

by Charlotte Mason

This is the complete works of the turn-of-the-century British educator, Charlotte Mason. The six-volume set includes over 2400 pages of the finest material ever written on education, child training and parenting. Recognized as the pioneer in home education and major school reforms, Charlotte Mason's practical methods are as revolutionary today as when they were first written.

The Emergence of the American University

The Emergence of the American University

by Laurence R. Veysey

The American university of today is the product of a sudden, mainly unplanned period of development at the close of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries. At that time the university, and with it a recognizably modern style of academic life, emerged to eclipse the older, religiously oriented college. Precedents, formal and informal, were then set which have affected the soul of professor,... (more)

A Different Kind of Teacher: Solving the Crisis of American Schooling

A Different Kind of Teacher: Solving the Crisis of American Schooling

by John Taylor Gatto

In 1991, shortly after receiving both the New York State and New York City Teacher of the Year Awards, John Gatto resigned to begin a new career as an education reform advocate. In this collection of 16 essays, Gatto analyzes the problems of American education and suggests solutions for revitalizing the system — prescriptions that run counter to current trends.

The Messianic Character of American EducationRousas J. Rushdoony

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The Underground History of American Education

by John Taylor Gatto

Teach Your Own: The John Holt Book of Homeschooling

by John Holt, Pat Farenga

Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

by John Taylor Gatto

Charlotte Mason's Original Homeschooling Series

by Charlotte Mason

The Emergence of the American University

by Laurence R. Veysey

A Different Kind of Teacher: Solving the Crisis of American Schooling

by John Taylor Gatto

The Messianic Character of American Education

by Rousas J. Rushdoony