Encounter Books
Order Toll Free: 1-880-786-3839
join View Cart / Check Out
 

You are here: Education/Family

Education/Family

Cover of 'Day Care Deception: What the Child Care Establishment Isn’t Telling Us'

Day Care Deception

paperback, by Brian C. Robertson — The central issue of daycare is often framed in a way that pits working moms against stay-at-home moms, and feminists against traditional families. But the real conflict, Brian C. Robertson shows in this carefully researched book, is between all parents and the burgeoning day care establishment itself—a multimillion dollar lobby with a vested interest in the expansion of subsidized day care[...]

Read More

Cover of 'Breaking Free: Public School Lessons and the Imperative of School Choice'

Breaking Free

paperback, by Sol Stern — Sol Stern’s Breaking Free explores the growing demand for school choice among poor families in the inner city. Stern describes the dramatic successes and occasional failures of this “new civil rights movement” in three key cities: Milwaukee, Cleveland, and New York. Filled with timely insights and human drama, Breaking Free vividly describes how cash-starved Catholic[...]

Read More

Cover of 'Class Warfare: Besieged Schools, Bewildered Parents, Betrayed Kids and the Attack on Excellence'

Class Warfare

paperback, by J. Martin RochesterClass Warfare: Besieged Schools, Bewildered Parents, Betrayed Kids and the Attack on Excellence offers a first-hand account of the Great American Education War being waged from coast to coast, including the reading wars, math wars, testing wars, and other schoolyard scuffles reported almost daily by the nation's media. Martin Rochester takes the reader on a field trip that begins with[...]

Read More