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Title: And the Skylark Sings with Me - Adventures in Homeschooling and Community-Based Education by David H. Albert ISBN: 0-86571-401-0 Publisher: New Society Pub Pub. Date: 27 September, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.82 (17 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A book every educator ought to read
Comment: This is not yet another homeschooling book. With an ongoing debate about how to best teach our children the author clearly shows the answer. Given the opportunity to pursue one's interests and with true community involvment a child cannot help but to learn and learn well. This book should be a required reading for all educators.
Rating: 5
Summary: Moving, Experiential Learning for Children AND Adults
Comment: What I like best about this book is the degree to which the author makes clear he didn't go into homeschooling with all the answers, and how much he had to trust to find them along the way. On one page, he lists more than a hundred things he didn't know anything about before he encountering them in educating his daughters (the book focuses on the older one, which is sensible, given that the younger one was only 6 when the book ends.)
Yes, he does give himself a pat on the back, just as any homeschooling parent would when finding something that really works with his or her child. His daughter is undeniably very gifted, but what comes through is how much work he and his wife put in to enable that giftedness to express itself. I learned lots from this book, mainly that I can trust myself and my children to find our own way.
Rating: 1
Summary: Very disappointing
Comment: I found And the Skylark Sings with Me to be very disappointing. Several fellow homeschoolers, as well as rave reviews in homeschooling magazines, encouraged me to read this book. First of all, I do not care for Albert's style of writing. It is incredibly self-congratulatory. Second, the near absence of a voice to the children's mother is very surprising. Also, I find it interesting that most of the book is about his daughter doing precocious things, and then the book ends when she is about 12. He continues to homeschool, but perhaps because playing a violin at age 12 doesn't seem that remarkable, he felt it was a good time to write a book. The best thing that I could glean from this book was to not be shy in using resources in the community to help your children. Since most homeschoolers I know already do this, this book is not worth that measly bit of advice. A far better book is Family Matter: Why Homeschooling Makes Sense by David Guterson.
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Title: Homeschooling and the Voyage of Self-Discovery by David H. Albert, David H. Albert ISBN: 1567512321 Publisher: Common Courage Press Pub. Date: 15 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Unschooling Handbook : How to Use the Whole World As Your Child's Classroom by Mary Griffith ISBN: 0761512764 Publisher: Prima Lifestyles Pub. Date: 29 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Teach Your Own: The John Holt Book of Homeschooling by John Holt, Patrick Farenga, Pat Farenga ISBN: 0738206946 Publisher: Perseus Publishing Pub. Date: 15 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Guerrilla Learning: How to Give Your Kids a Real Education With or Without School by Grace Llewellyn, Amy Silver ISBN: 0471349607 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 03 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Homeschooling Our Children Unschooling Ourselves by Alison McKee ISBN: 0965780627 Publisher: Bittersweet House Pub. Date: 01 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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