another excellent book to read is *Better Late than Early by Drs. Moore and Moore.
Homneschool and ARTH ping.
Short fun read...and powerful.
If the republic survives another decade I think that that education will be largely of the alternative variety, home school and on line non-government provided schooling will educate our future leaders and our scientists and even engineers. Public school is more and more vaporware and conditioning and even the bright minds that would have gone on accelerated tracks will find those tracks lead only to dead ends.
I don’t read any of those books now. I once did but now my grandkids are being diligently homeschooled already. I do recommend them to people I meet who are worried about the public schools and have school-age kids or grandkids..