Author, academic, and home-school expert Susan Wise Bauer’s latest book seems to have flown under the radar since its release earlier this year, but “Rethinking School: How to Take Charge of Your Child’s Education” should be on the nightstand of every parent, every teacher, and anyone invested in the education of our children.
While Bauer is best known for her home-school classic “The Well-Trained Mind,” “Rethinking School” addresses the all-too-common concerns of parents with school-aged children. Whether their children are way ahead of the curriculum and bored out of their minds, overwhelmed and struggling to keep up, or just simply miserable within the confines of the school system, parents today often find themselves disenchanted with school and seeking solutions. Those solutions, however, can be elusive in the face of a bureaucracy as deeply ensconced as the K–12 American school system.
