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The factory model of education is outdated, so what's next?

- Conventional schooling was largely designed with an industrial-revolution mindset.

- However, this factory model of education doesn't hold up today. Our access to technology allows learning to happen beyond the conventional classroom.

- Unschooling serves as a reinvention of education that invites students to indulge in their natural curiosity on their individual path to knowledge.

About The Author

Kerry McDonald is a Senior Education Fellow at the Foundation for Economic Education and author of “Unschooled: Raising Curious, Well-Educated Children Outside the Conventional Classroom” (Chicago Review Press, 2019). Her articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Newsweek, NPR, Education Next, and Reason Magazine, among others. She has an Ed.M. from Harvard University and a B.A. in economics from Bowdoin College.

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4 non-fiction books on education that are Best Sellers on Amazon.com:

Why Don't Students Like School?: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom

1119715660by Daniel T. Willingham.

Research-based insights and practical advice about effective learning strategies. In this new edition of the highly regarded Why Don't Students Like School? cognitive psychologist Daniel Willingham turns his research on the biological and cognitive basis of learning into workable teaching techniques. This book will help you improve your teaching practice by explaining how you and your students think and learn. It reveals the importance of story, emotion, memory, context, and routine in building knowledge and creating lasting learning experiences.

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Teaching With Poverty in Mind: What Being Poor Does to Kids' Brains and What Schools Can Do About It

Teaching With Poverty in Mind: What Being Poor Does to Kids' Brains and What Schools Can Do About Itby Eric Jensen

In Teaching with Poverty in Mind: What Being Poor Does to Kids' Brains and What Schools Can Do About It, veteran educator and brain expert Eric Jensen takes an unflinching look at how poverty hurts children, families, and communities across the United States and demonstrates how schools can improve the academic achievement and life readiness of economically disadvantaged students.

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Unschooling Rules: 55 Ways to Unlearn What We Know About Schools and Rediscover Education

Unschooling Rules: 55 Ways to Unlearn What We Know About Schools and Rediscover Educationby Clark Aldrich.

The most powerful new ideas in education are coming from the families that have given up on schools. From his experience with homeschoolers and unschoolers, education guru Clark Aldrich distills a revolutionary manifesto of 55 core ''rules'' that reboots our vision of childhood education and the role of schools.

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Seven Myths About Education

bSeven Myths About Educationy Daisy Christodoulou.

In this controversial new book, Daisy Christodoulou offers a thought-provoking critique of educational orthodoxy. Drawing on her recent experience of teaching in challenging schools, she shows through a wide range of examples and case studies just how much classroom practice contradicts basic scientific principles. She examines seven widely-held beliefs which are holding back pupils and teachers. 

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