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

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

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Publisher Description

“If you read only one book on educating children, this should be the book.… With a warm, informative voice, Bauer gives you the knowledge that will help you flex the educational model to meet the needs of your child.” —San Francisco Book Review

Our K–12 school system 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” labels on differences in learning style. Caught in this system, far too many young learners end up discouraged.

This informed, compassionate, and practical guidebook will show you how to take control of your child’s K–12 experience and negotiate the school system in a way that nurtures your child’s mind, emotions, and spirit.

Understand why we have twelve grades, and why we match them to ages.
Evaluate your child’s maturity, and determine how to use that knowledge to your advantage.
Find out what subject areas we study in school, why they exist—and how to tinker with them.
Discover what learning disabilities and intellectual giftedness are, how they can overlap, how to recognize them, and how those labels can help (or hinder) you.
Work effectively with your child’s teachers, tutors, and coaches.
Learn to teach important subjects yourself.
Challenge accepted ideas about homework and standardized testing.
Help your child develop a vision for the future.
Reclaim your families’ priorities (including time for eating together, playing, imagining, traveling, and, yes, sleeping!).
Plan for college—or apprenticeships.
Consider out-of-the-box alternatives.

GENRE
Professional & Technical
RELEASED
2018
January 9
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
256
Pages
PUBLISHER
W. W. Norton & Company
SELLER
W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
SIZE
1.2
MB

Customer Reviews

Kapirona ,

Staunch advocate for our children and their uniqueness and their abilities to learn

This book is a refreshingly straightforward review of our education system in the U.S. and it proposes many ways to flex it to improve the experience and outcome for our children. Throughout the book the author advocates for our children in a way that expanded my view of “normal” behaviors and she dignifies their many kinds of learning styles. She documents education regulations well enough to give us permission to pursue alternatives within the system or out of it. Further, by proposing so many alternative paths to follow, she reminds us how fun, adventurous and interesting learning should be. she reminds us how fun and interesti

I found reading it to be a very grounding experience as I approach taking one of my three kids out of school to homeschool her. I have far less doubt about my decision to do so now, and rather, am very inspired to do so.

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