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What Schools Forget
Exposing how we traded educational freedom for institutional control, one forgotten historical truth at a time.

Teaching Math Rightly
Why do students keep failing math? even the bright ones? This series goes back to the foundations: what numbers really are, where our symbols came from, and what teachers and parents need to re-learn before any curriculum can help. Written for teachers, parents, and anyone who suspects their math education left something important out.

Schools and Schooling
A history of how the one-room schoolhouse became the age-graded classroom. Covers the monitorial schools, the simultaneous method, Horace Mann's Prussian honeymoon, and the three fatal mistakes that still haunt American education today.

An Education Revolution
Parents, Teachers, and Education History

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