Some Suggested Books to Read
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Tari Cartwright
Eternal Harvest: An LDS Perspective on Homeschooling and Accelerated Learning

Oliver DeMille
A Thomas Jefferson Education: Teaching A Generation of Leaders for the Twenty-first Century  
A Classical Education introduction, and we recommend Leadership Education for complete vision

 Leadership Education: The Phases of Learning (with Rachel DeMille)
Best Handbook for the entire Classical Educational experience!

 A TJEd Home Companion (with: Rachel DeMille & Diann Jepson)
I liken this to a "recipe book" with ideas to try, because every family is different!
TJED for TEENS (with Dr Shanon Brooks)
Handbook & Journal on becoming a self-directed scholar! Adults love it for themselves on how to get started.

Rafe Esquith
 There Are No Shortcuts
His story of his teaching career leading up to being awarded the 1992 American Teacher Award

 Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire
Classical Education principles he uses in his classroom where he inspires students

John T. Gatto
 Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
His essays that speaks to heart and soul on the problem of public education
Educating Your Child in Modern Times: Raising an Intelligent, Sovereign, & Ethical Human Being

Raymond & Dorothy Moore
 Better Late Than Early: A New Approach to Your Child's Education
Originally published by BYU Press, this is the book that launched the Home schooling renaissance in the 1970's
Home-Spun Schools: Teaching Children at Home
School Can Wait

John Holt (he inspired the Unschooling movement)
 How Children Learn (Classics in Child Development)
How Children Fail (Classics in Child Development)
Teach Your Own: The John Holt Book of Homeschooling
this title is now revised by Pat Farenga, President of Holt Associates and runs GWS Press
 Learning All the Time

Alison McKee
 Homeschooling Our Children Unschooling Ourselves

Mary Griffith
 Homeschooling Handbook (Revised 2nd Edition)
The Unschooling Handbook: How to Use the Whole World As Your Child's Classroom David and Micki Colfax
 Homeschooling for Excellence

Rebecca Rupp
 The Complete Home Learning Source Book

Nancy Wallace
 Better Than School: One Family's Declaration of Independence

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