The Educated Child defines a good education and offers parents a plan of action for ensuring that their children achieve it.

The Educated Kid defines a good education and offers parents a plan of action for ensuring that their children achieve it. Combining the goals that William Bennett enumerated as Secretary of Education, essential excerpts from E. D. Hirsch’s Core Knowledge Sequence, and the most recent research, it pieces forth obvious curricula and specific objectives for children from kindergarten about The Educated Child: A Parents Instruction from Preschool to 8th Quality through the eighth grade, including:

-What children should be studying and the type of work they must be doing

-Important facts to understand and essential reading lists

-When children should master specific math skills, spelling and grammar essentials, and medical facts

-Test preparation, homework, and other areas that require parental involvement

The Educated Child also examines timely issues such as school choice, sex education, character education, as well as the phonics/whole language issue. Perhaps most important, it motivates parents to become advocates for his or her kids by learning what things to look for in an excellent school, how exactly to talk to educators, and how, when required, to force for needed changes. For parents concerned about their children’s current education and potential lives, it’s the ultimate handbook.