Matt Hern's books will be available for purchase the conference.
From the back cover of Deschooling our Lives:
"...is a terrific overview of the things people are doing instead of sending their children to conventional schools. Most importantly, it is a collection of electrifying essays which challenge our assumptions about education. Read this book to see how you can live and learn with your schildren without committing them to a twelve-year sentence of schooling." Pat Farenga, president of John Holt Associates, and publisher of "Growing Without Schooling Magazine."
"...is an empowering smorgasbord of key ideas and voices in the unschooling movement. How wonderful to have so much, all in the same book! Applause to Matt Hern for this radically sane, wisely assembled collecftion." Grace Llewellyn, author of The Teenage Liberation Handbook.
"In a dark hour some day when your spirits are flagging and you struggle to understand what it is you resist when you resist being schooled, let the twenty-four voices of Deschooling our Lives put steel in your backbone and give you courage to say, once more, dear friends, once more into the breach!" John Taylor Gatto, author of the best-selling Dumbing Us Down.
From the back cover of Field Day: Getting Society Out of School:
Does institutionalizing our children for six hours a day, five days a week, reaslly bring out the best in them? In this provocative book, Matt Hern argues that there are effective alternatives to school as we know it. Hern believes that local communities are in the best position to decide what kind of schooling their children need. In suggesting ways that we can leave the traditional school model behind, he sketches a future in which personal autonomy and social change go hand in hand. In the process he shows how children can thrive outside of school, and make every day a field day.
Alison McKee will be offering her books for sale at the conference for $15.00 each. Here's is a fantastic opportunity to get this helpful information without paying shipping!
Here is what people are saying about Homeschooling Our Children, Unschooling Ourselves:
"In the tradition of John Holt, Alison McKee observes young people, in and out of school, with keen insight, compassion, and an eye for detail. This is a vivid, complex, powerful, triumphant, reassuring and moving account of a whole family's education." Grace Llewellyn, author, Teenage Liberation Handbook.
"...is an honest and touching account of how homeschooling leads to new attitudes and possibilities for learning-not just for children, but especially for parents. This is a wonderful, insightful book that demonstrates how children can teach parents how they want to be taught, and how responsive parents, trained by experience to teach the way they were taught, can break out of conventional schooling assumptions and create truly unique, individualized educations for their children." Patrick Farenga, editor, "Growing Without Schooling."
A Description of From Homeschool to College and Work
Alison, David and their son Christian spent weeks searching for resources that would assist them in the creation of a high school transcript that would adequately describe the unique characteristics of Christian's unschooled life. Every resource they came across suggested that they should reduce his life story down to a list classes and grades. Unwilling to do so, the family set out to create something that would tell Christian's life story in a language that deans of admissions could understand. Their efforts paid off and deans of admissions at many schools gave Christian's portfolio high praise. From Homeschool to College and Work is a resource, offering step-by-step instructions, using a question and answer format, for unschoolers that describes how to write transcripts for the unschooled without having to compromise your beliefs. The book also covers aspects of how to prepare to enter the work force.
