Subject: Education

Classical Education: The Movement Sweeping America By Andrew Kern and Gene Edward Veith
144 pages | ISBN 978-1-892934-06-2
Paper Paper Retail Price: $10.00



Classical Education: The Movement Sweeping America

Classical Education: The Movement Sweeping America examines the decline of American education and offers a solution. It is not more spending or a new and innovative program. Rather the solution, according to authors Gene Edward Veith, Jr. and Andrew Kern, is classical education.

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Educating for Liberty: The Best of <em>Imprimis</em>, 1972–2002 By Douglas A. Jeffrey
330 pages | ISBN 978-0-916308-55-1
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Educating for Liberty: The Best of Imprimis, 1972–2002

This volume includes thirty speeches from the first three decades of Imprimis, the national speech digest of Hillsdale College. Authors include Russell Kirk, Ronald Reagan, George Gilder, Malcolm Muggeridge, Michael Novak, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, and Margaret Thatcher, among others.

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Educating for Virtue By Claes G. Ryn, Paul Gottfried, Peter J. Stanlis, Russell Kirk and Solveig Eggerz
114 pages | ISBN 978-0-932783-02-8
Paper Paper Retail Price: $15.00



Educating for Virtue

In Educating for Virtue, five scholars address one of the most pressing issues of our time: the relationship between education and the development of moral character. With essays by Claes G. Ryn, Russell Kirk, Paul Gottfried, Peter J. Stanlis, Solveig Eggerz.

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Flunked By
46 minutes run time | ISBN 978-0-9835440-1-2
DVD Retail Price: $24.95



Flunked

Flunked is the story of schools that are breaking the mediocre mold of American education by attaining superior results in college preparedness, test scores, and graduation rates.

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Free to Learn: Lessons from Model Charter Schools By Lance T. Izumi and Xiaochin Claire Yan
212 pages | ISBN 978-0-936488-95-0
Paper Paper Retail Price: $14.95



Free to Learn: Lessons from Model Charter Schools

Successful charter schools have perfected alternative models of organization, management, and discipline that shatter the status quo orthodoxy.

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Homeschooling with Gentleness: A Catholic Discovers Unschooling By Suzie Andres
132 pages | ISBN 978-0-931888-79-3
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Homeschooling with Gentleness: A Catholic Discovers Unschooling

Suzie Andres explores the basic premise of the household as the primary place of education and the role of parents as primary educators. Her book is engaging and helpful regardless of the method of education selected by parents—homeschooling, unschooling, or even public and private schooling.

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Liberty and Learning: The Evolution of American Education By Larry P. Arnn
117 pages | ISBN 978-0-916308-00-1
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Liberty and Learning: The Evolution of American Education

Larry P. Arnn, the President of Hillsdale College, traces the history of education from the founding of the U.S. Office of Education (based on the Prussian system) in 1869 to the Higher Education Act of 1965 and its subsequent reauthorizations, to contemporary legislation.

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Literature and the American College: Essays in the Defense of the Humanities By Irving Babbitt
228 pages | ISBN 978-0-932783-01-1
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Literature and the American College: Essays in the Defense of the Humanities

“With a comprehensive new introduction by Russell Kirk…a book…so solid in its substance and implications that it barely shows its age…. What Babbitt has to say about the classics, and the ancients, American civilization and character still deserve to be known and pondered by all those interested in education.”

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Not as Good as You Think: The Myth of the Middle Class School By Lance T. Izumi, Rowena M. Itchon and Sally C. Pipes
49 minutes run time | ISBN 978-1-934276-14-3
DVD Retail Price: $19.95



Not as Good as You Think: The Myth of the Middle Class School

Not as Good as You Think: The Myth of the Middle Class School shatters the myth that “good” schools are found only in “nice” neighborhoods.

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Not as Good as You Think: Why the Middle Class Needs School Choice By Lance T. Izumi, Rachel S. Chaney and Vicki E. Murray
242 pages | ISBN 978-1-934276-06-8
Paper Paper Retail Price: $24.95



Not as Good as You Think: Why the Middle Class Needs School Choice

Neighborhood schools may not be as good as they think, according to the findings in this book.

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