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  • The Limits of Freedom
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  • Learn Nothing Day
  • Sandra Dodd
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  • Pursuing Passion
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Books to Read


John Holt

1. How Children Fail

2. How Children Learn

3. The Underachieving School

4. What Do I Do Monday?

5. Freedom and Beyond

6. Escape from Childhood: the needs and Rights of Children

7. Instead of Education: Ways to Help People Do Things Better

8. Never too Late: My Musical Life Story

9. Teach Your Own: A Hopeful Path for Education

10. Learning all the Time

11. Growing Without Schooling Vol 1: A Record of a Grassroots Movement

12. A Life Worth Living: Selected letters of John Holt (Susannah Sheffer, ed)


Charlotte Mason

Books by Charlotte Mason


1. Home Education

2. Parents and Children

3. School Education

4. Ourselves

5. Formation of Character

6. Towards a Philosophy of Education

Books about Charlotte Mason 

1. E Cholmodley: The Story of Charlotte Mason

2. Karen Andreola: A Charlotte Mason Companion

3. Catherine Levison: A Charlotte Mason Education

4. Catherine Levison: More Charlotte Mason Education

5. Elaine Cooper(ed): When Children Love to Learn

6. Marian Wallace Ney: Charlotte Mason, a Pioneer of Sane Education


Unschooling

1. Mary Griffith: The Unschooling Handbook

2. Sandra Dodd: The Big Book of Unschooling

3. Sandra Dodd: Moving a Puddle and Other Essays

4. David Albert: And the Skylark Sings with Me



Home Education

1. Teri Dowty: Free Range Education

2. Gareth Lewis: One to One: A Practical Guide to Learning at Home Age 0-11

3. Gareth Lewis: Unqualified Education: A Practical Guide to Learning at Home Age 11-18

4. Alan Thomas: Educating Your Children at Home

5. Alan Thomas: How Children Learn At Home

6. Christine Field: Help for the Harried Homeschooler: A Practical Guide to Balancing Your Child's Education with the Rest of Your Life

7. LauraMary Gold: Homeschool Your Child for Free: More Than 1,200 Smart, Effective, and Practical Resources for Home Education on the Internet and Beyond

General Education


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

2. John Taylor Gatto: Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling 

3. John Taylor Gatto: A Different Kind of Teacher

4. Website:
John Taylor Gatto
                                                                                                     
5. Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, A’s, Praise and other Bribes (1993, revised  1999)   
                                                                     
6. No Contest: The Case Against Competition (1986; revised 1992)

7. Website: Alfie Kohn


Parenting

1. Naomi Aldort: Raising Our Children, Raising Ourselves

2. Ted Tripp: Shepherding a Child's Heart

3. Alfie Cohn: Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason (2005)