Rethinking School, Susan Wise Bauer
Rethinking School, Susan Wise Bauer
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Rethinking School
How to Take Charge of Your Child's Education

Author: Susan Wise Bauer

Narrator: Christina Moore

Unabridged: 8 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 01/09/2018

Categories: Nonfiction, Education

Synopsis

A best-selling expert on education shows how to make the school system work for your child. How many parents have a child struggling in school? The answer: a great many. This book is an informed, practical resource for such parents. As the author of the classic book on home-schooling, The Well-Trained Mind, Susan Wise Bauer knows how children learn and how schools work. Her advice here is comprehensive and anecdotal, including material drawn from experience with her own four children. The author's rule of thumb is that when a child is struggling, the problem probably lies with the school or the system, not with the child. She knows that the K-12 system, with its rigid rules of advancement and endless testing, doesn't work for all children. She shows parents how to take control of grade placement, pace, style of instruction, disability diagnosis, gifted services, and many other aspects of our school system that seem inflexible, in order to shape them to the child's needsnot the other way around. Parents will find a comforting clarity and sanity in this book.

About Susan Wise Bauer

Susan Wise Bauer is the bestselling author of the Story of the World series for elementary students, The Well-Educated Mind, and The History of the Ancient World, and coauthor of The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home. She is a faculty member in English at the College of William and Mary in Virginia, where she teaches writing and literature.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Danielle on January 29, 2018

As a long-time homeschooler Many parts of this book delighted me, but a few parts frustrated me. I have been a member of the Well Trained Mind forum community for many years, and am long familiar with the author and her philosophy. It was refreshing to see that she has changed how she views many thin......more

Goodreads review by Kim on August 03, 2019

I read this book looking for advice on how to work within the school system when you feel your child's needs aren't being met. And there was a lot of advice for that, but ultimately this author was pushing for homeschooling. And, unfortunately, this author also said that medicating a child with ADHD......more

Goodreads review by Melanie on March 14, 2019

This book is mostly useful for those parents who have kids in the public school system. There are useful bits of information for homeschool parents too. Another great book to have on my shelf for reference!......more

Goodreads review by Amy on August 25, 2018

I have a lot of respect for Susan Wise Bauer as a home educator, and I loved a lot of what she had to say in this book. The idea that our current K-12 system does not serve students of all learning types, that each grade level’s skills and knowledge are so narrowly defined that there is no room for......more

Goodreads review by Sarah on March 23, 2020

DNF. Sentences like this make me cringe: "Tests are the only leveler that outside observers can use. So standardized tests are not going to go away anytime soon. Knowing how to take those tests can actually be a valuable life skill, even though they're arbitrary and unreliable". I thought this book w......more

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