Unschooling Rules: 55 Ways to Unlearn What We Know About Schools and Rediscover Education
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| Title | : | Unschooling Rules: 55 Ways to Unlearn What We Know About Schools and Rediscover Education |
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| Rating | : | 4.89 (900 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1608321169 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 168 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2011-02-01 |
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The most powerful new ideas in education are coming from the families that have given up on schools. From his experience with homeschoolers and unschoolers, education guru Clark Aldrich distills a revolutionary manifesto of 55 core ''rules'' that reboots our vision of childhood education and the role of schools. The include: Learn to be; learn to do; learn to know. Tests don't work. Get over it. Move on. What a person learns in a classroom is how to be a person in a classroom. Animals are better than books about animals. Internships, apprenticeships, and interesting jobs beat term papers, textbooks, and tests. The only sustainable answer to the global education challenge is a diversity of approaches. This accessible book provides you with a path forward, whether you're a parent or teacher, a school administrator, or a national policy decision maker.
Editorial : About the AuthorClark Aldrich is a global education thought leader, labeled a guru by Fortune Magazine. He works with corporate, military, government, and academic organizations at both the board level and as a hands-on implementer. His projects have been patent winning and earned millions globally. He is the author of four earlier books and scores of articles; is the recipient of numerous industry awards; created dozens of educational simulations (including the most popular leadership simulation in the world); was the founder of Gartner's eLearning coverage; and has a degree in Cognitive Science from Brown University. His work has been featured in hundreds of sources, including CBS, ABC, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, CNN, NPR, CNET, Business 2.0, BusinessWeek, and U.S. News and World Reports.
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Today Edie is on her way to work with a fellow Y4 employee when she becomes enmeshed in another adventure. Kind of weirdly disappointed.. Suggested primary and secondary text citations are thorough. It has lots of pictures, lists best varieties of plants, highlights best performing perennials, provides resources to obtain plants, how to plant and care for the plants, as well as methods of propagation. This to me had tremendous potential to be a great biography. In the end, arguably, that's what did them in.
d) The torture some of the endured is almost unimaginable as well. very zen in itself, and admittedly a "finger pointing at the moon", this book gives a great flavor of zen and shows zen's varied forms as well as zen's freedom from a particular time. The kindle edition sucks! There are close to 80 pages of tiny squares. Figures provide details of key anatomical structures and physiologic principles. I have to admit that I comment on the previous version but
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