Filter By Subjects
Classical education United States Handbooks, manuals, etc Education Parent participation Education Parent participation United States Handbooks, manuals, etc Education, Humanistic Education, Humanistic United States Education, Humanistic United States Handbooks, manuals, etc Home schooling Home schooling United States Handbooks, manuals, etc United States United States Intellectual life 20th centuryFilter By Subjects
Classical education United States Handbooks, manuals, etc Education Parent participation Education Parent participation United States Handbooks, manuals, etc Education, Humanistic Education, Humanistic United States Education, Humanistic United States Handbooks, manuals, etc Home schooling Home schooling United States Handbooks, manuals, etc United States United States Intellectual life 20th centuryBortins, Leigh A.
Summary: "Children are natural learners, and building a core foundation at an early age is critical to their success both educationally and in life. Yet academic excellence is lacking in many school systems throughout the country. In this book, education expert and author Leigh A. bortins incoroprates the best ideas from the ancients and gives parents the tools to revive classical learning"--Page 4 of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Palgrave Macmillan 2010
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Bauer, Susan Wise
Summary: This book will instruct you, step by step, on how to give your child an education from preschool through high school -- one that will train him or her to read, to think, to understand, to be well-rounded and curious about learning. Home educators Susan Wise Bauer and Jessie Wise outline the classical pattern of education called the trivium, which organizes learning around the maturing capacity...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Parent-Teacher Collection, Call number: JPT 373 BAUBauer, S. Wise.
Summary: This educational bestseller has dominated its field for the last decade, sparking a homeschooling movement that has only continued to grow. It will instruct you, step by step, on how to give your child an academically rigorous, comprehensive education from preschool through high school. Two veteran home educators outline the classical pattern of education?the trivium?which organizes learning...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2009
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 371 BAUWallace, David Foster.
Summary: "Only once did David Foster Wallace give a public talk on his views on life, during a commencement address given in 2005 at Kenyon College. The speech is reprinted for the first time in book form in "This is Water". How does one keep from going through their comfortable, prosperous adult life unconsciously? How do we get ourselves out of the foreground of our thoughts and achieve compassion?...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 370.11 WALBloom, Allan David
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 1987
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.92 BLOShorris, Earl
Summary: Documents the author's observations of circumstances reflected in a maximum-security prison and subsequent launch of a humanities college course for dropouts, immigrants and former inmates who eventually became high-achieving contributors to society.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 001.3071 SHOAnders, George
Summary: Did you take the right classes in college? Will your major help you get the right job offers? For more than a decade, the national spotlight has focused on science and engineering as the only reliable choice for finding a successful post-grad career. Our destinies have been reduced to a caricature: learn to write computer code or end up behind a counter, pouring coffee. Quietly, though, a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 331 ANDBeam, Alex.
Summary: Explores the Great Books mania, in an entertaining and strangely poignant portrait of American popular culture on the threshold of the television age.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2008