The Christian EducatorA publication of North Valley Baptist Schools

Suggested Book List

Child Development
A Family of Value, John Rosemond (Andrews McMeel Publishing)
Growing Up God’s Way, John Stormer (Liberty Bell)
Shepherding a Child’s Heart, Ted Tripp (Shepherd Press)
Who Will Rock the Cradle? Phyllis Schlafly (Eagle Forum)
Will Early Education Ruin Your Child? J. Richard Fugate
Yes, Virginia, There is Right and Wrong, Kathleen M. Gow
(Fidelity House)

Christian Education
Christian Education for the Real World, Henry Morris (Master Books)
Come Ye Children, Charles Spurgeon (Spring Arbor)
Essays on Christian Education, Cornelius Van Till (Puritan
Reformed Div.)
Intellectual Schizophrenia, Rousas J. Rushdoony (Presbyterian Reformed Publishing Co.)
Perspectives in Christian Education, Burrell , Johnson and Tatham (Florida Association of Christian Schools)
The Successful Christian School, A.A. Baker (A Beka Book)
Your Faith on Trial, Wallis C. Mett (Greenwood Pub.)

History
The Biblical Philosophy of History, Rousas J. Rushdoony (Thoburn Press)
Molding the Good Citizen: The Politics of High School History Texts, Lerner, Nagai and Rothman (Praeger)
A Time for Truth, William E. Simon (McGraw-Hill)

History and Philosophy of Education
Battle of the Books: What It Takes to Be Educated in America, James Atlas (Norton)
Capitalism and the Historians, Hazek, ed. (University of Chicago Press)
The Closing of the American Heart, Ronald Nash (Probe)
The Closing of the American Mind, Alan Bloom (Simon and Schuster)
The Death of Truth, Dennis McCallum (Bethany House)
The Dilemma of Education in a Democracy, Richard H. Powers (Regnery-Gateway)
Education, Christianity, and the State: Essays by J. Gresham Machen, John W. Robbins (Trinity Foundation)
Education for the Real World, Henry Morris (Creation Life
Publishers)
Education in a Free Society, Alexander S. Rippa (Longman, Inc.)
The Fall of the Ivory Tower, George Roche (Regnery Publishing)
The Messianic Character of American Education, Rousas J. Rushdoony (Thoburn Press)
NEA: The Trojan Horse, Samuel L. Blumenfeld (Devin)
Reclaiming a Nation at Risk, Brannon Howse
Retarding America: The Imprisonment of Potential, Michel S. Bruner (National Books)
The Schools We Need and Why We Don’t Have Them, E. D. Hirsch (Doubleday)
Slouching towards Gommorah, Robert Bork (Harper Collins)
Why Johnny Can’t Learn, Opal Moore
Why Johnny Can’t Tell Right from Wrong, William Kilpatrick (S. & S. Trade)

Mathematics
Why Johnny Can’t Add, Morris Kline

Psychology
The Biblical View of Self-Esteem, Self-Love, and Self-Image, Jay Adams (Harvest House)
Competent to Counsel, Jay Adams (Zondervan)
Hide or Seek, James Dobson (Revell)
How Christian Is Christian Counseling? Gary L. Almay
Prophets of Psychoheresy I, Martin and Deidre Bobgan
Psychoheresy, Martin and Deidre Bobgan (Eastgate)
Why Christians Can’t Trust Psychology, Ed Buckley

Public Education
Are Textbooks Harming Your Children? James Hefley (Master Books)
Brave New Schools: A Bold Challenge to the Reshaping of America’s Young Minds, Berit Kjos (Harvest House)
The Child Abuse Industry, Mary Pride (Crossway Books)
Child Abuse in the Classroom, Phyllis Schlafly, ed. (Crossway Books)
Classroom Countdown, Max Rafferty (Hawthorn)
Dumbing Down Our Kids, Charles J. Sykes (St. Martin’s Press)
The Feel-Good Curriculum: The Dumbing Down of America’s Kids in the Name of Self-Esteem, Maureen Stout (Perseus Publishing)
Government Nannies: The Cradle-to-Grave Agenda of Goals 2000 and Outcome Based Education, Cathy Duffy (Noble Publishing)
Have the Public Schools Had It? E. L. Towns (Nelson)
Let’s Talk Sense about Our Schools, Paul Woodring (McGraw-Hill)
None Dare Call It Education, John Stormer (Liberty Bell Books)
Quackery in the Public Schools, Albert Lynd (Random Publishing
House)
Straight Talk about American Education, Theodore M. Black
(Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, Inc.)
Tomorrow’s Illiterates, C. C. Walcutt (Thoburn Press)
What Do Our 17-Year-Olds Know? Diane Ravitch and Chester E.
Finn, Jr. (Harper and Row)

Reading
An Acorn in My Hand, Ethel Bouldin
Becoming a Nation of Readers: The Report of the Commission on Reading, (The National Academy of Education)
Cultural Literacy, E. D. Hirsch, Jr. (Random)
Honey for a Child’s Heart, Gladys Hunt (Zondervan)
Learning to Read: The Great Debate, Jeanne Chall (McGraw-Hill)
Preventing Reading Failure: An Examination of the Myths of Reading Instruction, Patrick Groff, Ph.D. (National Books)
Reading without Dick and Jane, A. S. Trace, Jr. (Henry Regnery Company)
Why Johnny Can’t Read, Rudolf Flesch (Buccaneer Books)

Science
The Long War against God, Henry Morris (Baker)
The Mythology of Science, Rousas J. Rushdoony (Thoburn Press)
Studies in Bible and Science, Henry Morris
Twilight of Evolution, Henry Morris (Baker)

Secondary Education
High School Achievement, Coleman, Hoffer and Kilgore (Basic Books)

Teaching
The Art of Teaching, Gilbert Highet (Random)
Guide to Successful Christian Teaching, Ardell Jacquot (American Association of Christian Schools)
Seven Laws of Teaching, John Gregory (Baker)

Time Management
Managing Your Time, Engstrom and MacKenzie (Zondervan)