Education Dumbing Us Down by John Taylor Gatto As the subtitle states, "The hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling." A compilation of speeches given by Mr. Gatto, New York State Teacher of the Year. Speeches include: The Seven-Lesson Schoolteacher; The psychopathic School; The Green Monongahela; We Need Less School, Not More; and The Congregational Principle. School Can Wait by Raymond and Dorothy Moore Filled with research. If you have a child whose time-table has reading entering a bit late, you'll find this book reassuring. Deschooling Our Lives by Matt Hern (Editor) From Midwest Book Review - What is a 'complete' education, and how can parents foster healthy growth for children? Hern presents an arguments against focussing on schools for eduction, presenting articles, and gathering writings which show how parents can start the deschooling process and replace school emphasis with workable alternatives. School's Out by Lewis J. Perelman The subtitle states, "Hyperlearning, the new technology, and the end of education." The radical precept at the heart of School's Out is that hyperlearning does not represent an avenue for educational reform but a total replacement for conventional education, an essential new industry for any nation hoping to prosper in the next millennium. Inside American Education by Thomas Sowell Mr. Sowell, a Hoover Institute fellow, explores the decline, the deception and the dogmas which are being taught in our schools today. The Third Wave by Alvin Toffler Not specifically about education, Mr. Toffler has some very profound thoughts about the role education will play in the future. He states, "The Third Wave challenges the Second Wave notion that education necessarily takes place in the classroom. Today we need to combine learning with work, political struggle, community service, and even play. All our conventional assumptions about education need to be re-examined both in the rich countries and the poor." The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom The Closing of the American Mind is a powerful critique, by a distinguished political philosopher, of the intellectual and moral confusions of our age. Playing the Future by Douglas Rushkoff Our kids--Rushkoff calls them screenagers"--are like those of any immigrant, fitting themselves more naturally into this terra incognita than we can. He goes beyond mere explanation to prove how the trappings of screenagers' lives are preparing them for the future, a discontinuous realm where surprise is the only constant and information pours in from innumerable sources at warp speed. In The Mind's Eye by Thomas C. West West examines the effects of learning disabilities on the lives of ten famous visual thinkers, including Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison, Lewis Carroll, Winston Churchill, and William Butler Yeates. In his thorough discussion of learning disabilities, West cites recent neurological research that shows an association between visual talents and verbal difficulties and summarizes current knowledge about such learning disabilities as dyslexia. Return to Book Store Index Branford Grove School's Home Page