The Year of Learning Dangerously: Adventures in Homeschooling

By Quinn Cummings

Book Overview

A year of homeschooling. What could possibly go wrong? In this honest and wry memoir, popular blogger, author, and former child actor Quinn Cummings recounts her family s decision to wade into the unfamiliar waters of homeschooling the fastest-growing educational trend of our time -- despite a chronic lack of discipline, some major gaps in academic knowledge, and a serious case of math aversion. (And that s just Quinn.) Quinn s fearless quest includes some self-homeschooling reading up on education reform, debating the need for socialization, and infiltrating conferences filled with Radical Unschoolers as well as Christian fundamentalists (and even chaperoning a homeschool prom). Part personal narrative, part social commentary, and part how-not-to guide, The Year of Learning Dangerously will make you laugh and make you think. And there may or may not be a quiz at the end. OK, there s no quiz. Probably."

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0399537600
• ISBN13: 9780399537608
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Perigee Books
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 1.0" x 5.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12 and higher