Summer Reading for Parents & Teachers

I saw the link to a book list on Twitter, submitted by Ron Glodoski an author and speaker on educational alternatives for at-risk youth.

Let's face it, not all homeschool and alternative programs are put together to provide a quality and creative foundation for children who are loved and cared for. As a former teacher and administrator in Alternative Schools, I know that many at-risk kids end up in some kind of alternative program, be it a homeschool environment, a tutorial program, etc., that is organized as a last ditch effort by parents, caregivers, or the court to keep a child off the streets and out of more sinister alternative educational programs like drugs and prostitution.

If you are an educator who works in alternative education or the desperate parent of a teen you will surely find something beneficial on this list. But if you don't fall into those categories, this is still a good list to download and add to your educational files. Though the title of the list, compiled by the Pennsylvania Dept. of Education, uses the term Disruptive Youth, you will find good reading about alternative education and educational philosophies on the list. I found lots of great books that I recognized and would recommend to any parent or teacher. One of my favorites is John Taylor Gatto's, Dumbing us Down; The Hidden Agenda of Compulsory Schooling.

Here are two links to the PA DOE list.
http://www.pde.state.pa.us/alt_disruptive/cwp/view.asp?a=3&q=103435&pp=3

http://bit.ly/kcp8c

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