Family Matters: Why Homeschooling Makes Sense

8 best books like Family Matters: Why Homeschooling Makes Sense (David Guterson): The Underground History of American Education: An Intimate Investigation Into the Prison of Modern Schooling, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling, How Children Learn, Teach Your Own: The John Holt Book Of Homeschooling, And the Skylark Sings with Me, The Well-Adjusted Child: The Social Benefits of Homeschooling, Rethinking School: How to Take Charge of Your Child's Education, The Sand Warrior

The Underground History of American Education: An Intimate Investigation Into the Prison of Modern Schooling

Author	John Taylor Gatto
ISBN	0945700059

Book online at the author's website

Ah, for the good old days, back before child labor laws, back when no had time for such inventions as "adolescence", back when one could sing a cute song about darkies or niggers without being a racist, back when flogging children in the name of civility was...

Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

Author

John Taylor Gatto

Before reading this book I really thought I was 100% sure about my reasons to homeschool. Boy, was I wrong. I guess I was only half way there because now that I have finished this book, I realize that I never really saw the harms of the public school system 100%.

Our children are being limited every...

How Children Learn

Author	John Holt
ISBN	0201484048

This enduring classic of educational thought offers teachers and parents deep, original insight into the nature of early learning. John Holt was the first to make clear that, for small children, “learning is as natural as breathing.” In this delightful yet profound book, he looks at how we learn...

Teach Your Own: The John Holt Book Of Homeschooling

Author	John Holt
ISBN	0738206946

The classic and indispensable work on teaching children at home, fully updated for today's new laws, new lifestyles, and the growing 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...

And the Skylark Sings with Me

Author	David H. Albert
ISBN	0865714010

A clear and magical account of how David and Ellen helped their daughters find new ways to take charge of their education... A treat you should not miss.?John Taylor Gatto, 1991 New York Teacher of the Year and author of Dumbing Us Down
Progressive-minded parents considering homeschooling their...

The Well-Adjusted Child: The Social Benefits of Homeschooling

Author	Rachel Gathercole
ISBN	1600651070

Makes the point that home schooled children are often "better" socialized than their conventionally schooled counterparts, with less problem behaviors, equal levels of self-esteem (at least), and higher maturity levels. She points out that most people who ask, "But what about socialization"...

Rethinking School: How to Take Charge of Your Child's Education

Author	Susan Wise Bauer
ISBN	0393285960

Our K–12 school system is an artificial product of market forces. It isn’t a good fit for all—or even most—students. It prioritizes a single way of understanding the world over all others, pushes children into a rigid set of grades with little regard for individual maturity, and slaps “disability”...

The Sand Warrior

Author	Mark Siegel
ISBN	1101935863

The Five Worlds are on the brink of extinction unless five ancient and mysterious beacons are lit. When war erupts, three unlikely heroes will discover there's more to themselves and more to their worlds than meets the eye. . .

The clumsiest student at the Sand Dancer Academy, Oona Lee is a fighter...