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Learning Outside the Lines
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By Jonathan Mooney and David Cole
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 2000, $13
Jon and Dave have learning disabilities and ADHD and ended up graduating from an Ivy-League college despite Jon not learning to read until he was twelve and Dave dropping out of school at sixteen. Learning Outside the Lines is about Jon and Dave’s triumph over an education system hostile to their learning problems after years of misunderstanding, mislabeling, and failure. This book is their effort to help other kids with learning disabilities to get through school successfully, by learning how to learn in a radical new way. The authors provide a step-by-step approach to reading, writing, and test taking, along with their own deeply moving stories and some hints on how to live "a life less ordinary."
From the Publisher: “Every day, schools draw lines to measure and standardize intelligence. They decide what criteria make one person smart and another person stupid. They decide who will succeed and who will just get by. Perhaps… because you learn differently, you are considered lazy and stupid. You are expected to fail. Learning Outside the Lines is written by two such "academic failures" who graduated from Brown University at the top of their class. Jon and David teach you how to take control of your education and find true success. Witty, bold, and disarmingly honest, Learning Outside the Lines takes you on a journey toward personal empowerment and profound educational change, proving once again that rules sometimes need to be broken.”
Updated: 07/18/2006
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