Books to Read

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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)

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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)