Books

A beginning list of relevant books...

Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling / John Taylor Gatto

Everywhere All the Time: A New Deschooling Reader / Matt Hern

FeelBad Education: ...And Other Contrarian Essays on Children and Schooling / Alfie Kohn (also others by Kohn, such as The Homework Myth and What Does It Mean To Be Well Educated?)

Free at Last: The Sudbury Valley School / Daniel Greenberg

The Montessori Method / Maria Montessori

The Myth of Ability: Nurturing Mathematical Talent in Every Child / John Mighton

Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative / Ken Robinson

Roots of Empathy: Changing the World, Child by Child / Mary Gordon

Summerhill: A Radical Approach to Childrearing / A.S. Neill

You Are Your Child's First Teacher / Rahim Baldwin Dancy