help me find convincing articles for DH...

[southernmommie]

He gave me the reasoning that schooling should be left to the professionals. And at that point I stopped talking and ended the conversation with me wanting him to read a couple of books. (I wanted to bang my head on the wall at that comment.) Please help.

I need things I can print out for him to read or a book. I've got The Well-Adjusted Child and Dumbing Us Down.

[SundayCrepes]

Homeschooling Rediscovered http://www.amazon.com/Homeschooling-Rediscovered-Socialization-Education-Family/dp/1430308257/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1294374221&sr=8-1

These websites:

Homeschooling and Socialization:

http://learninfreedom.org/socialization.html

http://www.homeschool.com/articles/socialization/default.asp

 

Movie about problems with education system:

http://www.racetonowhere.com/

 

Do schools kill creativity? Very entertaining video with some good points to ponder: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG9CE55wbtY

 

Article on why young kids’ brains aren’t ready for early reading/writing instruction:

http://www.lilipoh.com/articles/2007/fall2007/teaching_children.aspx 

 

Here’s an article that discusses how children who start academics at later ages do better in the long run: 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/2752895.stm

 

Here’s a video on delayed academics in Sweden:

http://www.teachers.tv/videos/sweden-early-years 

 

Youtube videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQQyP9WXKk8

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIOogqa-5GA

 

Unschooling definition:

http://www.naturalchild.org/guest/earl_stevens.html

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unschooling

 

I did a search on Peter Gray on the Psychology Today website and he has lots of interesting looking articles. Here are a couple I read: 

 

Math: 

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/freedom-learn/201004/kids-learn-math-easily-when-they-control-their-own-learning 

 

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/freedom-learn/201003/when-less-is-more-the-case-teaching-less-math-in-schools

 

Reading: 

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/freedom-learn/201002/children-teach-themselves-read

 

Sudsbury School: 

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/freedom-learn/200808/children-educate-themselves-iv-lessons-sudbury-valley (The closest we have to Sudsbury in Tucson is the Kino Learning Center.)

 

 

Tons of great articles about homeschooling. http://www.besthomeschooling.org/gateway/inted16.html

 

ACT scores–homeschooled compared to general test takers:

http://homeschooling.gomilpitas.com/olderkids/CollegeTests.htm

 

Some homeschooling research:

 

Home-Education: Rationales, Practices and Outcomes

http://pjrothermel.com/phd/Home.htm

 

Fifteen years later: Home-Educated Canadian Adults

http://www.hslda.ca/cche_research/2009Study.pdf

 

We've Grown Up and We're Okay

http://www.illinoishouse.org/a05.htm

 

Welcome to the National Home Education Research Institute!

http://www.nheri.org/

 

 

 

 

 

 

[simple living mama]

I always loved the book Homeschooling for Excellence.  It's one of those books you can give the relatives to calm them.  The boys end up going to Harvard but pretty much did hands on relaxed homeschooling.  It's written well and "calms down" even the most nervous family member.