Susan Wise Bauer
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Homeschooling Help Trying out Homeschooling Your Children Are in Virtual School. How Do You Thrive? Part II: Maybe We’ll Just Keep Doing This In the first part of this series, we offered a helping hand to parents who never intended to homeschool but ended up (thanks to the pandemic)... -
Daily Life Think Like a Homeschooler Your Children Are in Virtual School. How Do You Thrive? Try Thinking Like a Home Schooler! You never intended to home school. You have a demanding job, your kids were doing just fine in your local school, and you didn’t plan a major change. And yet, here you are: working… -
Rethinking School Apprenticeship Opportunities: High School and Post-High School Apprenticeship Opportunities: High School and Post-High School (as referenced on page 216 of Rethinking School: How to Take Charge of Your Child’s Education, by Susan Wise Bauer) The United States lags far behind Europe and our neighbors to the north in providing apprenticeship opportunities. Organized apprenticeship programs are primarily…
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Rethinking School Differences, Disorders, and Disabilities Differences, Disorders, and Disabilities (as referenced on page 37 of Rethinking School: How to Take Charge of Your Child’s Education, by Susan Wise Bauer) Throughout this website, we offer resources for parents whose children have learning differences, learning disorders, and learning disabilities. These include: Our Learning Challenges and Accelerated Learner parent…
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Rethinking School Aptitude Tests, Personality Quizzes, and Guides to Self-Knowledge Aptitude Tests, Personality Quizzes, and Guides to Self-Knowledge (as referenced on page 159 of Rethinking School: How to Take Charge of Your Child’s Education, by Susan Wise Bauer) Self-awareness is difficult—and essential for every maturing adult. Taking personality quizzes and aptitude tests won’t automatically grant you self-knowledge, but it…
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Rethinking School State Requirements for High School Graduation State Requirements for High School Graduation (as referenced on page 16 of Rethinking School: How to Take Charge of Your Child’s Education, by Susan Wise Bauer) As you plan out your child’s high school curriculum, remember four things: High school graduation requirements are state-mandated. There are no national high…
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History Five Events That Began the Renaissance (Or Ended the Middle Ages) The Middle Ages (the favorite historical period of 9 out of 10 young history students!) is generally thought to occupy the years between the collapse of Rome and the beginning of the Renaissance—between, more or less, 400 and 1600 AD. Most of us were taught, in history class, that the…
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History Bias, Compromise, and Teaching History to Children In the fall of 2005, history professor Larry Schweikart was on the book-promotion circuit, talking up his “unbiased” history of America, A Patriot’s History of the United States. Schweikart wrote his book as a corrective: “I found bias, ranging from merely tolerable to exceptionally bad, in almost all of the…
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Teaching Techniques & Tips Maturity & The Real Child, Part II: Strategies for the Age-Grade Mismatch If your child’s maturity level doesn’t happen to coincide with the (artificial) grade level that matches his age, what strategies can you use? First, do your best to separate out the different “subjects” that make up the child’s curriculum and think of each of them separately. On the most basic…
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Teaching Techniques & Tips Maturity & The Real Child, Part I: The Problem With Ages and Grades On my Virginia farm, I raise livestock; lambs and kids born on the same date rarely clock in at the same size, wean themselves, or eat the same amount of hay and grain on any given day. Daffodils bloom, baby birds fly, and puppies stop chewing on chair rungs when…