Teach Your Own

Learning All The Time

Instead of Education: Ways to Help People Do Things Better

No Contest: The Case Against Competition, Alfie Kohn

Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, As, Praise and Other Bribes, Alfie Kohn

Better Than School, Nancy Wallace

Childs Work, Nancy Wallace

For the Childrens Sake, Susan Sheaffer Macauley

Homeschooling for Excellence, David and Micki Colfax

Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling, John Taylor Gatto. He also has a website at www.johntaylorgatto.com

The Unschooling Handbook, Mary Griffith (really good resource on unschooling)

RE: TEENS:

The Day I became an Autodidact, Kendall Hailey

The Teenage Liberation Handbook, Grace Llewellyn

I learn Better by Teaching Myself, Agnes Leistico

Still Teaching Ourselves, Agnes Leistico

Magazines:

Growing Without Schooling (by Holt Associates actually no longer being published, but they have back issues or you check out at some libraries) all about unschooling. Order at http://www.fun-books.com

The web address for Holt Associates is www.holtgws.com

Home Education Magazine. Order at

www.home-ed-magazine.com

Good web sites:

Family Unschoolers Network www.unschooling.org (also will link you to Fun Books, which sells many great resources)

Unschoolers Network (NJ), Nancy Plent, 732-938-2473, UnNet@aol.com

www.optionality.net/unschooling Hosted by World Home Education Network

Local unschoolers groups:

Life is Learning A Homeschooling Community: www.yahoogroups.com/group/lifeislearning. List owner: Su Crutchfield hs_su@yahoo.com 301-855-2260