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The Year Of Learning Dangerously
Quinn Cummings
Adventures in Homeschooling
Perigee
August 2012
On Sale: August 7, 2012
238 pages
ISBN: 0399537600
EAN: 9780399537608
Kindle: B008EXNT2Q
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Non-Fiction
Think homeschooling is only for a handful of eccentrics on
either end of the political spectrum? Think again. Today in
America, two million primary- and secondary-school students
are homeschooled. Growing at a rate of 10 percent annually,
homeschooling represents the most dramatic change in
American education since the invention of the mimeograph—and
the story has only just begun. In The Year of Learning Dangerously, popular blogger,
author, and former child actor Quinn Cummings recounts her
family’s decision to wade into the unfamiliar waters of
homeschooling—despite a chronic lack of discipline, some
major gaps in academic knowledge, and a serious case of math
aversion. (That description refers to Quinn.) Trying out the latest trends, attending key conferences
(incognito, of course), and recounting the highlights and
lowlights along the way, Quinn takes her daughter’s
education into her own hands, for better and for worse. Part
memoir, part social commentary, and part how-not-to guide,
The Year of Learning Dangerously will make you laugh and
make you think. And it may or may not have a quiz at the
end. OK, there isn’t a quiz. Probably.
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