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August Reads

The Global Achievement Gap by Tony Wagner - 8/7/2011  Excellent - Nonfiction Why even our best schools don't teach the new survival skills our children need - and what we can do about it. What an eye-opening book! This will make a big difference in what I require of my own children for high school. If you are at all concerned about education not preparing children for the real world, you should read this. It's not about homeschooling at all. Instead, it is about how even the "best" schools are not giving students the skills they need to succeed. You Don't Look Like Anyone I Know by Heather Sellers - 8/13/2011  Good - Memoir Heather has prosopagnosia, aka face blindness, that prevents her from reliably recognizing people's faces. Heather Sellers teaches at Hope College, the second book I've read by a professor there. She has an extremely interesting story stemming from her condition, but I didn't find it particularly well-written or compelling