Thanks, I thought we were looking at high school students, not middle school. Suggestions of going to Keynes and/or Marx (which may be academically dead, but is still walking amongst us on earth as a political zombie) would not be appropriate, except special cases, for middle school.

Yes, the question of externalities, if they exist, and the use of regulation to "solve the problem" is indeed controversial. Maybe I should have said that there is fewer areas of controversy in microeconomics than in macroeconomics where the entire field is controversial to some extent. What is LoF?

Hmm you are just as likely to find something neutral in (macro-) economics as you are likely to find some neutral textbook regarding the existence of god, or on which god is the true god(s). Though given that you are clear about what you do NOT want I suggest you either look for Keynsian or Marxian economics which are the the main "live" schools without any "free market propaganda". (Marxian economics are considered dead, or very close to dead though). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schools_of_economic_thought You MAY wish to start with microeconomics first though as there is very little disagreement in that area, albeit much about free markets.

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Go directly to the sources: Keynes: The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_General_Theory_of_Employment,_Interest_and_Money Marx: Das Kapital (or an English translation of same) No complicated math in either, in fact no math at all, if I recall correctly.

Legibility and speed

Rummy roots

Interested to hear about this

Used Minimus and believe it to be a good (soft and fun) introduction to Latin.

You may want to consider eliminating games and TV totally.

Thanks!!

Who gets to decide what IS correct?

Hyperbole, but he does have a valid point in that the standard templates of Powerpoint are terrible.

Outlining, Edward Tufte, Barbara Minto, etc might be suggested to make good Powerpoint presentations.

It is maybe a little too much, but on the other hand there does not seem to be a natural "hard" limit, except the available time. Strangely I do not consider languages as important as logic, science, math etc, but bought into the value of Greek and Latin which moved us a little beyond more "normal" language scope. There are some other languages I would like to add, notably German, Russian, or some asian languages, but cannot do so until I can move some more languages into "maintenance" mode.

Currently juggling 7 languages in addition to English by last count. Two are full immersion, Two are traditional study, One is summer immersion, Two are in fluency maintenance mode (see films, listen to radio, some exercises, etc)

Aren't allowed by whom?

Yes, but it does not seem to have made much difference that I am able to detect. Then again it is virtually impossible to say for certain if it made any difference since you don't get two tries with the same kid.

Some weeks of break over summer if ahead of schedule is on offer. Last year I think a one week break was achieved by one of them, which is on schedule to get more this year.

Black hole, sorry thread sucked me in. Absolutely irresistible.

Need to work Corbett's Classical Rhetoric into your mix I think.

I would suggest either Peter Kreeft (Socratic Logic) or Scott Sullivan (Traditional Logic). Kreft is Christian, but book is about logic not a cross-sell of religion under guise of logic. Otherwise there are a number of excellent books on archive.com on logic from before 1900, most better than anything found today. Assuming here you want to teach (deduktive) logic, not wooly "critical thinking". For inductive logic any book on scientific method will (mostly) do the job.

Please ask them to specify what experiments they do in Astronomy. ;)

http://www.amazon.com/REMEDIA-PUBLICATIONS-REM1134A-Outlining-Gr/dp/B000QCDGOO http://www.amazon.com/Outlining-Gr-5-8/dp/B000QCBC2M http://www.amazon.com/Thirty-Lessons-Outlining-Level-1/dp/0891873708 http://www.amazon.com/Thirty-Lessons-Outlining-Advanced-Level/dp/0891873716/ https://archive.org/details/principlesofoutl00ballrich