Public Education


Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future
Of Mice and Men
To Kill a Mockingbird
Lord of the Flies
Romeo and Juliet
The Knowledge Gap: The Hidden Cause of America's Broken Education System--and How to Fix it
The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side
The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop
The Graveyard Book
Kimchi & Calamari
The Westing Game
The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)
In Cold Blood
Raymond S. Moore
[Homeschooling]...recipe for genius: More of family and less of school, more of parents and less of peers, more creative freedom and less formal lessons.
Raymond S. Moore, School Can Wait

Science may appear to have no connection with political freedom…. Scientists are too busy with positive measures, such as productive research and the dissemination of the results of the search for truth, to take time out to refute every crackpot notion that gets into print…. If the democratic process were applied ideally, and if enough people were to accept the claims in the article as truth, then publicly supported schools and universities could be depopulated of competent faculties, whose plac ...more
Dean B. McLaughlin, The Pseudoscience Wars: Immanuel Velikovsky and the Birth of the Modern Fringe

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Mrs. Van Otterloo's Reading Circle This is a group created for students of Mrs. Van Otterloo to engage in conversations amongst the…more
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