Starting to Homeschool Webinar 1
Why Should I Homeschool?
Works Cited
Educational Reasons
Berle, A. A. The School in the Home. Moffat Yard and Co., 1912.
Gatto, John. 1991. Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling.
New Society Press, 2002.
——. A Different Kind of Teacher: Solving the Crisis of American Education. Berkeley Hills,
2002.
——. Underground History of American Education. Oxford Village Press, 2001.
Gray, Peter. Free To Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make our Children
Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life (Basic Books, 2013)
Guterson, David. Family Matters: Why Homeschooling Makes Sense. Harcourt, 1992.
Holt, John. Escape from Childhood. 1971. Holt Associates, 2011.
——. Freedom and Beyond. 1972. Heinemann/Boynton/Cook, 1995.
——. How Children Fail. 1964. Perseus, 1995.
——. How Children Learn. 1966. Perseus, 1995.
——. Instead of Education. 1976. Sentient, 2003.
——. Learning All the Time. 1985. Perseus, 1990.
——. Never Too Late. 1979. Perseus, 1991.
——. Teach Your Own: The John Holt Book of Homeschooling. 1981. John Holt and Patrick
Farenga. Perseus, 2003
——. The Underachieving School. 1969. Sentient, 2003.
——. What Do I Do Monday? 1974. Heinemann/Boynton/Cook, 1995.
Holt, John, ed. Growing Without Schooling: A Record of a Grassroots Movement. Holt
Associates, 1999. Contains the first 12 issues of GWS, fully indexed and reset in large, clear
type.
Illich, Ivan. 1971. Deschooling Society. Open Forum, 2000.
Kowalke, Peter. Grown Without Schooling. http://www.unschooler.com/gws/.
Mullarney, Maire. Anything School Can Do You Can Do Better. Arlen House, 1983.
Priesnitz, Wendy. Challenging Assumptions in Education. Alternate Press, 2000.
Scherman, Rita. A Mother’s Letters to a Schoolmaster. Knopf, 1923.
Family/Lifestyle Reasons
Attachment Parenting: http://www.attachmentparenting.org/principles/principles.php.
Guterson, David. Family Matters: Why Homeschooling Makes Sense. Harcourt, 1992.
Laricchia, Pam. Free to Learn: Five Ideas for a Joyful Unschooling Life. Living Joyfully
Enterprises, 2012.
McKee, Alison. Homeschooling Our Children, Unschooling Ourselves. Bittersweet House,
2002.
Bach, James Marcus. Secrets of a Buccaneer-Scholar. Scribner, 2009.
Educational Travel
Allee, Judith W., and Morgan, Melissa L. Educational Travel on a Shoestring: Frugal
Family fun and Learning Away from Home. Shaw, 2002.
Bendall, Pamela and Sam. Kids for Sail. Orca Book Publishers, 1990.
Boles, Blake. Unschool Adventures. http://www.unschooladventures.com/.
Jeffrey, Nan. 1990. Adventuring with Children. Avalon House, 1996.
Liberti, Laine. Project World School. http://projectworldschool.com/reservations/teenapplication/.
Frost, Maya. The New Global Student: Skip the SAT, Save Thousands on Tuition, and Get a
Truly International Education. Three Rivers Press, 2009.
Higham, John. 360 Degrees Longitude: One Family’s Journey Around the World. Prospecta
Press, 2012.
Religious Reasons
Andres, Suzie. Homeschooling With Gentleness: A Catholic Discovers Unschooling.
Christendom Press, 2004.
Brown, Teri, and Elissa Wahl. Christian Unschooling: Growing Your Children in the
Freedom of Christ. Champion Press, 2001.
Hood, Mary. The Relaxed Home School. Ambleside Educational Press, 1994.
Macauley, Susan Schaefer. 1984. For the Children’s Sake. Crossways, 2009.
Moore, Raymond and Dorothy Moore. The Successful Homeschool Family Handbook: A
Crative and Stress-Free Approach to Homeschooling. Thomas Nelson, 1994.
Pride, Mary. Mary Pride’s Complete Guide to Getting Started in Homeschooling. Harvest
House, 2004.
Social Reasons
Gathercole, Rachel. The Well-Adjusted Child: The Social Benefits of Homeschooling.
Mapletree, 2007.
Liedloff, Jean. The Continuum Concept: Allowing Human Nature to Work Successfully.
Addison-Wesley, 1985.
Rivero, Lisa. The Homeschooling Option: How to Decide When It’s Right For Your Family.
Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Weldon, Laura Grace. Free Range Learning: How Homeschooling Changes Everything.
Hohm Press, 2010.