Freeman House, Influential Restorationist, Dies at 80
Judith Plant, New Society Publishers co founder and author of Culture Gap and editor of Healing the Wounds, offers a …
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Freedom to Learn
Creating a Classroom Where Every Child Thrives
Disinterested students and behavioral problems are all too common in schools. Yet results show that behavior charts and other reward-and-punishment systems simply don't work. Teachers are burning out and students are failing. But what can be done?
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Cracking the Boy Code
How to Understand and Talk with Boys
All too quickly, talkative, affectionate young boys seem to slip away. Adolescents may be transformed overnight into reclusive, seemingly impenetrable young people who open up only to their friends and spend more time on devices than with family. …
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Dumbing Us Down - 25th Anniversary Hardback Edition
The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
After over 100 years of mandatory schooling in the U.S., literacy rates have dropped, families are fragmented, learning "disabilities" are skyrocketing, and children and youth are increasingly disaffected. Thirty years of teaching in the public …
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Dumbing Us Down - 25th Anniversary Edition
The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
After over 100 years of mandatory schooling in the U.S., literacy rates have dropped, families are fragmented, learning "disabilities" are skyrocketing, and children and youth are increasingly disaffected. Thirty years of teaching in the public …
related subjects: Education & Parenting
Grow Create Inspire
Crafting a Joyful Life of Beauty and Abundance
How can we embrace the absolute necessity of preserving and protecting the earth for our descendants, creating a future in which there is still clean water to drink, fresh air to breathe, and fresh, healthy food vital to human existence?
Grow Create …
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The Big Book of Nature Activities
A Year-Round Guide to Outdoor Learning
The average child can identify over 300 corporate logos, but only 10 native plants or animals—a telling indictment of our modern disconnection from nature. Soaring levels of obesity, high rates of ADHD, feelings of stress and social awkwardness …
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Educating for Action
Strategies to Ignite Social Justice
The pursuit of freedom and justice is a timeless effort, but new activists may not know where to begin, while more experienced ones often become jaded or fatigued. The task of constructing a new society free from oppression and inequality can be …
related subjects: Social Responsibility
Seeing Red
An Anger Management and Anti-bullying Curriculum for Kids
Anger is a natural human emotion, but if it isn't managed properly its effects can be devastating. Seeing Red is a curriculum designed to help elementary and middle-school aged students better understand their anger so they can make healthy and …
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