Rethinking School: How to Take Charge of Your Child's Education by Susan Wise Ba

Description: Rethinking School by Susan Wise Bauer A best-selling expert on education shows how to make the school system work for your child. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description A best-selling expert on education shows how to make the school system work for your child. Our K–12 school system is an artificial product of market forces. It isnt a good fit for all—or even most—students. It prioritizes a single way of understanding the world over all others, pushes children into a rigid set of grades with little regard for individual maturity, and slaps "disability" labels over differences in learning style. Caught in this system, far too many young learners end up discouraged, disconnected, and unhappy. And when they struggle, school pressures parents, with overwhelming force, into "fixing" their children rather than questioning the system. With boldness, experience, and humor, Susan Wise Bauer turns conventional wisdom on its head: When a serious problem arises at school, the fault is more likely to lie with the school, or the educational system itself, than with the child. In five illuminating sections, Bauer teaches parents how to flex the K–12 system, rather than the child. She closely analyzes the traditional school structure, gives trenchant criticisms of its weaknesses, and offers a wealth of advice for parents of children whose difficulties may stem from struggling with learning differences, maturity differences, toxic classroom environments, and even from giftedness (not as much of a "gift" as you might think!). As the author of the classic book on home-schooling, The Well-Trained Mind, 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 and more than twenty years of educational consulting and university teaching. Rethinking School is a guide to one aspect of sane, humane parenting: negotiating the twelve-grade school system in a way that nurtures and protects your childs mind, emotions, and spirit. Author Biography Susan Wise Bauer is an educator and academic who has worked with parents and students for more than twenty years. She taught at the College of William and Mary in Virginia for fifteen years. Her previous best-selling titles for Norton include The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had, Rethinking School, The Story of Western Science: From the Writings of Aristotle to the Big Bang Theory, and the History of the World series Review A detailed look at how modern schooling can be a mismatch for students needs.... Very straightforward and informative.-- "Library Journal"A welcome operators manual for parents of school-age children, inside or outside the K-12 paradigm.-- "Kirkus Reviews"Bauer makes a passionate case for why the K-12 system desperately needs to be rethought.... Comforting and instructive.-- "Publishers Weekly"Should be on the nightstand of every parent, every teacher, and anyone invested in the education of our children.... Bauers down-to-earth approach and talent for describing complex ideas in simple, easy-to-understand terms makes for a comforting and accessible read.... This book offers hope to many who are desperately searching for it and empowers parents to finally take charge of their childrens education.-- "Epoch Times" Review Quote "Should be on the nightstand of every parent, every teacher, and anyone invested in the education of our children.... Bauers down-to-earth approach and talent for describing complex ideas in simple, easy-to-understand terms makes for a comforting and accessible read.... This book offers hope to many who are desperately searching for it and empowers parents to finally take charge of their childrens education." Details ISBN0393356841 Author Susan Wise Bauer Pages 288 Year 2019 ISBN-10 0393356841 ISBN-13 9780393356847 Format Paperback Imprint WW Norton & Co Subtitle How to Take Charge of Your Childs Education Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States DEWEY 371.192 Short Title Rethinking School Language English Publication Date 2019-02-05 UK Release Date 2019-02-05 AU Release Date 2019-02-05 NZ Release Date 2019-02-05 US Release Date 2019-02-05 Publisher WW Norton & Co Alternative 9780393285963 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:161731718;

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