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DAN RILEY SCHOOL FOR A GIRL
by Dan Riley
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (1994-08-23)
ISBN: 0395687195
EAN: 9780395687192
Dewy Decimal #: 649.68
Hardcover: 212 pages
SKU: M131346
Condition: Very Good
Comments: 0395687195 Book free of markings. Jacket shows light wear. Interior evidences little to no use, binding is tight, pages clean; overall, a very serviceable copy. Your book will be carefully protected for transit in sturdy, weather-resistant packaging. We are prompt, efficient, communicative.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
A parent's story of educating his daughter at home, including excerpts from the daughter's daily journal, is not only a book of advice on home schooling, but also a memoir of the funny, difficult, unpredictable teenager-parent relationship. 10,000 first printing.
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Customer Reviews
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Education From the Inside Out!
Rating  (5)
Date: 2007-12-22
After homeschooling three of my children, I can truly empathize w/Dan Riley. He wasn't just interested in his daughter's academic development but what appealed to me was his focused attempts to assist her in developing "character", which a lot of educated and "successful" people, unfortunately, do not possess.
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Not a homeschooling book.
Rating  (2)
Date: 2004-07-18
1 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
I picked this book up from the library with hopes that it would offer some insights as I prepare to homeschool my own 7th-grade daughter next fall.Too bad I didn't want information about how to enroll her in a $20,000 year school that requires each student to own a horse: that was in this book. The Riley family also traveled to Europe: I don't know how much Gillian [the "A Girl] of the title got out of the trip, but she did seem impressed to be viewing Michelangelo's instead of the copy her sister had seen at a Vegas casino. But try as I might, I can't come up with a description of 1 complete lesson. Most of the book consists of Riley's ruminations about the process of removing his daughter from the classroom for a year and descriptions of disagreements between he and Gillian, chiefly about her desire to return to public school to be with her friends. Ignore the inside flap blurb: this is no "wise and witty memoir of home schooling." It's rather the ramblings of one not-very-likeable man who seems clearly to be doing this for himself, not his daughter.
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Not truly representative of homeschooling
Rating (2)
Date: 2000-12-30
2 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
As a former homeschooled student myself, I found this an interesting but not representative account of what homeschooling truly is. While it was indeed interesting to read about Dan Riley's customized curriculum for his daughter and how the experience improved their relationship, I was disappointed with his failure to use a homeschooling parent's best and most-used resource--other homeschooling families. Unlike most of these families, he failed to seek out other homeschoolers for Gillian to know and failed to take advantage of the hundreds of extracurricular activities developed specifically for homeschoolers. Gillian's experience was more isolated than any other homeschooled student I've known(and I've been in contact with over a hundred for the past ten years). Academically, she may have flourished but socially she missed out on the well-developed network that has been in place among homeschoolers for a decade. This book must be read for what it is: a highly individualized account of one experience in home education, not as a guidebook or source of representative research on home education in America.
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Father homeschools daughter for a year
Rating  (3)
Date: 2000-12-07
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
I found this book to be a quick and easy read. Riley's sense of humor make the book enjoyable to read, yet it is not lightweight material. Perhaps the best part of Riley's book is the honest re-telling of what happens when you homeschool. Many homeschooling books paint homeschooling in such a glorious light, that the real life nuts and bolts of homeschooling gets swept under the rug. Homeschooling can be difficult and exhausting. Is it worth it? For some people, yes. Dan Riley captures the gritty, one on one nature that makes homeschooling a viable alternative for some families.
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