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School Free - The
Homeschooling Handbook
The best-selling homeschooling and home-based learning handbook by the founder and editor of Natural Life magazine and the Life Learning magazine website, and well-known unschooling pioneer. All you need to know to help your children learn at home. Homeschooling topics covered include: legalities, guiding self-directed learning, assessment, writing and/or choosing curriculum (and why and how not to use curriculum), computers and learning, dealing with objections, socialization, the teenaged unschooler, dealing with school officials, and much more. An extremely useful, one-of-a-kind guide to home-based, independent learning. This book has received dozens of enthusiastic reviews and hundreds of unsolicited testimonials from parents. It has since been revised and updated five times. ISBN 0-920118-04-6, 142 pages, softcover, $24.95
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Here's what parents have said about School Free: Great! A real service to homeschoolers. I've read everything I can get my hands on about homeschooling, but your book really hits the nail on the head. Thank you, thank you, thank you for your wonderful, concise, clear, informative homeschooling book. ...one of the most positive sources of encouragement to us since we began homeschooling. Here's what reviewers have said about School Free: This handbook manages to be at once philosophically
challenging and eminently practical. Priesnitz gives families a
superb overview of the basics...and makes an impassioned but
reasoned case against compulsory education. Priesnitz presents her research findings and her educational
philosophy very well, and her presentation is well documented. This is a controlled exposition that runs the gamut of
deschooling philosophies and attempts to present them in an unbiased
way. It is a valuable book for both its practical and philosophical
approaches to the deschooling of children. A sensitive and comprehensive discussion about home schooling. When most parents would daycare-ize babyhood and
nursery-school away the preschool years, the lone cry of Wendy
Priesnitz is a glorious, human song indeed. Deschool! A fascinating look at home-based education, and a useful
source of information for anyone wanting to know how and why to
teach children at home. Priesnitz is the high priestess of home schooling in Canada. |
