Rethinking school how to take charge of your child's education
"In five illuminating sections, Bauer teaches parents how to flex the K-12 system, rather than the child. She closely analyzes the traditional school structure, gives trenchant criticisms of its weaknesses, and offers a wealth of advice for parents of children whose difficulties may stem from strugg...
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W.W. Norton & Company,
[2018]
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Rethinking school : |b how to take charge of your child's education / |c Susan Wise Bauer. |
| 250 | |a First edition. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a New York : |b W.W. Norton & Company, |c [2018] | |
| 264 | 4 | |c Ã2018 | |
| 300 | |a xiv, 264 pages ; |c 25 cm | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-251) and index. | ||
| 520 | |a "In five illuminating sections, Bauer teaches parents how to flex the K-12 system, rather than the child. She closely analyzes the traditional school structure, gives trenchant criticisms of its weaknesses, and offers a wealth of advice for parents of children whose difficulties may stem from struggling with learning differences, maturity differences, toxic classroom environments, and even from giftedness..."--Dust jacket. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Part I: The system. The way we do school ; The three biggest myths about school -- Part II: Mismatches. You can't make the Earth go around the Sun faster ; Differences, disabilities, and disorders ; The perils of the gifted and the good ; The toxic classroom -- Part III: Taking control. Basic principles (or, How not to be "that" parent) ; Control the tests ; Challenge the homework monster ; Accelerate (but don't necessarily skip) ; Shift the method -- Part IV: Rethinking the system. The end result ; The child's vision ; All the other things school does ; Solving for X -- Part V: Opting out. Deciding to homeschool ; Getting started in five steps ; Out-of-the-box teaching strategies ; Radical alternatives -- Postscript: About college. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Education |x Parent participation. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Home schooling. | |
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