As homeschooling expands and parents assume greater control of their children's education, this is a guide on how to apply the foundations of classical learning - either in home schooling or as a supplement to classroom-oriented education. Leigh A. Bortins, offers the tools and resources parents need to implement this in the home.

Table of Contents

Forward: Becky Norton-Dunlop, Vice-President for Outreach at The Heritage Foundation Introduction PART ONE: THE CLASSICAL MODEL What's Wrong with Education Today? Why We Need Classical Education How Classical Education Can Help You PART TWO: THE CORE OF A GRAMMATICAL EDUCATION Reading Writing Math Geography History Science Fine Arts Schedules and Resources for Classical Education Epilogue: How the Classics Give Us Skills We Need as Adults

About the Author

LEIGH A. BORTINS is the founder and CEO of Classical Conversations, Inc., whose enrollment is 20,000. She hosts a weekly radio show, 'Leigh! for Lunch', in and lectures widely about the importance of home education at nation-wide conferences and seminars.

Reviews

""The Core" provides an altogether practical curriculum, a handy reference work for busy parents who want their children to enter adulthood fully-equipped with the knowledge and skills possessed by responsible citizens, discerning consumers, and ethical selves."
--Mark Bauerlein, author of "The Dumbest Generation""" "In a time when many parents are rediscovering the classical methods of education, whether at home or in the classroom, it is heartening to see more and more educators studying, applying, and refining these methods. This book by Leigh Bortins is admirable part of that project, and I commend it to you."
--Douglas Wilson, author of "The Case for Classical Christian Education" "Shifting American education from the factory model to a classical model is the goal advanced by Classical Conversations founder and President Leigh Bortins. The public school bar for educational achievement has dropped so low that it takes time for parents to discover how much more potential their