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Sheriff Mack
Power of the County Sheriff

Silent
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Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt

Back to Basics Reform or... OBE *Skinnerian International Curriculum?

The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America, Revised and Abridged Edition

Exposing the Global Road to Ruin Through Education

John Taylor Gatto

The Ultimate History Lesson: A Weekend with John Taylor Gatto

Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling, 10th Anniversary Edition

Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling

The Underground History of American Education: A School Teacher's Intimate Investigation Into the Problem of Modern Schooling

A Different Kind of Teacher: Solving the Crisis of American Schooling

Educating Your Child in Modern Times: How to Raise an Intelligent, Sovereign & Ethical Human Being

"Against School" – originally published in Harper's Magazine, September 2003

The Ultimate History Lesson, 2012

"The Six-Lesson Schoolteacher" – originally published in Whole Earth Review, Fall 1991

Bartleby Project 2010 on YouTube

A set of quotes from Gatto and links to original essays

4th Purpose Promo – Trailer for The Fourth Purpose

"Institutional Schooling Must Be Destroyed"

John Gatto Keynote Talks - Video: Five complete keynote talks by John Gatto (2004–2010)

"The Tyranny Of Compulsory Schooling"

Altruists.org – download audio files of some of Gatto's talks

"The Public School Nightmare: Why fix a system designed to destroy individual thought?", article published by Diablo Valley School

Video of Gatto interview, broken into topic sections

"Why Schools Don't Educate - Teacher of the Year acceptance speech"

Speech at a home schooling Conference by Radio for Peace (MP3)

Book reviews by Layla AR

Collection of Gatto Files, mainly MP3s

"A Short Angry History of American Forced Schooling"

The Lew Rockwell Show, Aug 25, 2010

Everything We Think About Schooling Is Wrong! – Interview with Gatto

A set of quotes from Gatto and links to original essays

Samuel L. Blumenfeld

MORE: Why Schools Went Public - Property in a Humane Economy

Alpha-Phonics Book Including CD ROM Version by Samuel L. Blumenfeld (September 1, 2014) Plastic Comb 2012

Homeschooling: A Parents Guide to Teaching Children

Crimes of the Educators: How Utopians Are Using Government Schools to Destroy America's Children

NEA: Trojan Horse in American Education

First Readers Anthology: Samuel L. Blumenfeld's Phonics Readers

The Victims of Dick and Jane

The How and Why of Home Schooling

How to Start Your Own Private School : And Why You Need One

Is Public Education Necessary?

New Illiterates and How You Can Keep Your Child from Becoming One

Is public education necessary? by Samuel L Blumenfeld (1985-01-01)

Revolution via Education

The Retreat From Motherhood

Marlowe-Shakespeare Connection: A New Study of the Authorship Question

The Whole Language/Obe Fraud: The Shocking Story of How America Is Being Dumbed Down by Its Own Education System

Rudolf Flesch

How to Write Better - 1951
Lite English: Popular Words That Are OK to Use No Matter What William Safire, John Simon, Edwin Newman, and the Other Purists Say! - 1983

How to be Brief

The New Book of Unusual Quotations

Teaching Johnny to read

Why Johnny Can't Read: And What You Can Do about It

Why Johnny Can't Read and What You Can Do About It

Why Johnny Still Can't Read: A New Look at the Scandal of Our Schools

ABC of Style: A Guide to Plain English

THE ART OF READABLE WRITING - COLLIER AS211

The Way to Write

The Classic Guide to Better Writing: Step-by-Step Techniques and Exercises to Write Simply, Clearly and Correctly

The Art of Readable Writing

How to Write Plain English

The Art of Readable Writing: With the Flesch Readability Formula

New Guide to Better Writing

How to Express Yourself Clearly and Briefly

How to Write, Speak and Think More Effectively (Signet)

The Art of Clear Thinking

how to Test Readability

Art of Plain Talk

Say What You Mean

How to make sense

Rudolf Flesch on Business Communications: How to Say What You Mean in Plain English

Look It Up: A Deskbook of American Spelling and Style

The Book of Surprises: An Anthology of the Unusual

Jean Piaget

John Holt - Grace Llewellyn - Wendy Priesnitz - Rousas Rushdoony

Arnold Lucius Gesell - American psychologist, pediatrician and professor at Yale University, researcher and contributions in the field of child development.