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Index
Cover
Title
Contents
About This Book
Part I. The System
Chapter One: The Way We Do School
Chapter Two: The Three Biggest Myths About School
Part II. Mismatches
Chapter Three: You Can’t Make the Earth Go Around the Sun Faster
Why Age = Grade (It’s Prussia’s Fault)
Three Questions for Evaluating Maturity
Action Plan
Chapter Four: Differences, Disabilities, and Disorders
The Three Labels
Action Plan
Chapter Five: The Perils of the Gifted and the Good
What Is Giftedness?
Four Challenges of Giftedness
Action Plan
Chapter Six: The Toxic Classroom
Uncovering the Problem
Action Plan
Part III. Taking Control
Chapter Seven: Basic Principles (Or, How Not to Be “That” Parent)
Laying the Foundation
The Way Forward
Chapter Eight: Control the Tests
What the Tests Measure
The Right to Refuse
Types of Tests: What They Are and How to Use Them
The Way Forward
Chapter Nine: Challenge the Homework Monster
When Homework Doesn’t Work
The Way Forward
Chapter Ten: Accelerate (But Don’t Necessarily Skip)
Single-Subject Acceleration
The Way Forward
Chapter Eleven: Shift the Method
Sample Projects Designed for Multiple Intelligences
The Way Forward
Chapter Twelve: Teach, Yourself
The Way Forward
Part IV. Rethinking the System
Chapter Thirteen: The End Result
Thinking Backward
Thought Experiment 1
Chapter Fourteen: The Child’s Vision
The Challenge of Self-Awareness
Challenges for Your Child
Thought Experiment 2
Chapter Fifteen: All the Other Things School Does
The Noneducational Tasks
Questioning the Agent
Thought Experiment 3
Chapter Sixteen: Solving for X
Why Imagine?
Thought Experiment 4
Part V. Opting Out
Chapter Seventeen: Deciding to Homeschool
Homeschooling Styles
How to Investigate
Chapter Eighteen: Getting Started in Five Steps
Chapter Nineteen: Developing Independence
The Stages of Independent Work
Chapter Twenty: Out-of-the-Box Teaching Strategies
A Caveat
The Strategies
A Final Caution
Chapter Twenty-One: Radical Alternatives
Different Paths
Postscript: About College
Appendix A: High School and the Transcript
Appendix B: Skills vs. Content
Appendix C: A Brief Essential Bibliography
Works Cited
Index
Also by Susan Wise Bauer
Copyright
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