Guerrilla Learning: How to Give Your Kids a Real Education With or Without School by Grace Llewellyn, Amy Silver

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GUERRILLA LEARNING IS CREATING A HOME ENVIRONMENT THAT FILLS YOUR CHILD WITH THE JOY OF LEARNING

Let your daughter read her library books instead of finishing her homework . Ask your eleven-year-old's beloved third grade teacher to comment on his poetry. Invite a massage therapist to dinner because your daughter wants to go to massage school instead of college. Give your child the freedom to pursue his interests, develop her strengths, cultivate self-discipline, and discover the joy of lear...

All Learning is Self-Directed by Daniel R. Tobin

Build on the idea that organizations and their emp more...0 points

Build on the idea that organizations and their employees are increasingly comfortable with the idea that learning and skills development are the responsibility of the individual worker. This volume is designed to help organizations and their HR and training groups take maximum advantage of the trend toward an independent, self-directed learner workforce. You'll learn how to develop new organizational and individual employee development strategies to meet workplace challenges.0 points

A Thomas Jefferson Education: Teaching a Generation of Leaders for the Twenty-first Century by Oliver Van DeMille

Is American education preparing the future leaders more...0 points

Is American education preparing the future leaders our nation needs, or merely struggling to teach basic literacy and job skills? Without leadership education, are we settling for an inadequate system that delivers educational, industrial, governmental and societal mediocrity? In A Thomas Jefferson Education: Teaching a Generation of Leaders for the Twenty-first Century, Oliver DeMille presents a new educational vision based on proven methods that really work! Teachers, students, parents, educat...0 points

From Homeschool to College and Work: Turning Your Homeschooled Experiences into College and Job Portfolios by Alison McKee

As parents who homeschooled and, more importantly, more...0 points

As parents who homeschooled and, more importantly, unschooled their children since birth, McKee had often pondered how she would go about writing a college portfolio if her children chose to attend college. This book outlines, by using a question and answer format, the procedures her family devised to write two successful college portfolios. Topics she covers are (1) how to get started (2) documenting the learning process (3) compiling data for a portfolio (4) putting a final document together t...0 points

Homeschooling Our Children Unschooling Ourselves by Alison McKee

A compelling story about one family's journey into more...0 points

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...0 points