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RECOMMENDED READING |
- Blumenfeld, Samuel. Is Public Education Necessary?
Groundbreaking study on the origins of American public education.
- Blumenfeld, Samuel. NEA: Trojan Horse in American Education.
Uses original sources to reveal the agenda of the most powerful
lobby in America.
- Coulson, Andrew. Market Education: The
Unknown History.
A nearly exhaustive and quite compelling history of the difference in
quality between private and government education. Coulson shows how when
the government gets involved, regardless of time period or culture,
educational quality suffers. This is a must-read for those who want
practical answers for why we need to separate school and state.
- Nash, Ronald. The Closing of the American Heart:
What's Really Wrong with America's Schools.
Carries Alan Bloom's Closing of the American Mind thesis
further, drawing from Biblical reasoning.
- Richard, Carl J. The Founders and the
Classics.
Shows how the American Founders were steeped in classical
learning, and how this type of education dominated into the nineteenth
century. Some of the chapters are slow-going, but there is a wealth of
information here for those who have the patience.
- Richman, Sheldon. Separating School and State: How
to Liberate America's Families.
Solid critique of government-controlled education. While I
agree with the thesis, I do not share the libertarian view that
government is inherently evil.
- Slater, Rosalie, ed. Teaching and Learning America's
Christian History: The Principle Approach.
Explanation of Biblical principles for curriculum development.
- Vitz, Paul C. Censorship: Evidence of Bias in Our
Children's Textbooks.
Results of a government study on the contents of history and
reading texts, both at elementary and secondary levels. Documents
the major shift in philosophy toward political correctness.
- Wilson, Douglas. Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning:
An Approach to Distinctively Christian Education.
Wilson is a principal who operates the Logos School in Idaho.
In this book, he lays out his Biblical/classical approach to education.
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