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

Locations
Call Number: Adult Book / Nonfiction / Family & Relationships / Parenting / Bauer, Susan Wise
On Shelf At: Westgate Branch

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Westgate Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Nonfiction / Family & Relationships / Parenting / Bauer, Susan Wise	4-week checkout	On Shelf

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 ;Teach, yourself -- 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 ; Developing independence ; Out-of-the-box teaching strategies ; Radical alternatives -- Postscript: About college -- Appendix A: High school and the transcript -- Appendix B: Skills vs. content -- Appendix C: A brief essential bibliography.
"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.

REVIEWS & SUMMARIES

Library Journal Review
School Library Journal Review
Publishers Weekly Review
Summary / Annotation
Table of Contents
Author Notes

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Useful suggestions for parents submitted by willow on August 1, 2018, 8:36am This book is a brief overview of options parents can consider to tailor their children’s education to their strengths and needs. Most of the suggestions are compatible with a student’s enrollment in school, but she does include a discussion on homeschooling. (For more particulars on how to plan that, one could consult her book “The Well Trained Mind”; this is a different book.)