The year of learning dangerously : adventures in homeschooling / Quinn Cummings.
Material type:
TextSeries: A Perigee bookPublication details: New York, New York : Penguin Group, 2012.Edition: First editionDescription: 229 pages ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0399537600
- 9780399537608
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Main Library | Parent/Teacher Resource Collection-Children's | 371.042 C971 | Available | 33111007013267 | ||||
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Main Library | NonFiction | 371.042 C971 | Available | 33111006989772 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A year of homeschooling. What could possibly go wrong?
In this honest and wry memoir, popular blogger, author, and former child actor Quinn Cummings recounts her family's decision to wade into the unfamiliar waters of homeschooling -- the fastest-growing educational trend of our time -- despite a chronic lack of discipline, some major gaps in academic knowledge, and a serious case of math aversion. (And that's just Quinn.)
Quinn's fearless quest includes some self-homeschooling -- reading up on education reform, debating the need for "socialization," and infiltrating conferences filled with Radical Unschoolers as well as Christian fundamentalists (and even chaperoning a homeschool prom). Part personal narrative, part social commentary, and part how-not-to guide, The Year of Learning Dangerously will make you laugh and make you think. And there may or may not be a quiz at the end. OK, there's no quiz. Probably.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-228).
A blogger and former child actor recounts her misadventures in first-time homeschooling, an endeavor marked by her own math aversion, experiments with current trends, and a chaperone venture at a home-school prom.