Learning Outside the Lines by Jonathan Mooney

Learning Outside the Lines

Two Ivy League Students With Learning Disabilities and Adhd Give You the Tools F

Jonathan Mooney, Dave Cole

Touchstone · Print & ebook · September 5, 2000

Written by two Ivy League graduates who struggled with learning disabilities and ADHD, Learning Outside the Lines teaches students how to take control of their education and find true success with brilliant and easy study suggestions and tips.

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Who it’s for
A candid, witty guide to taking charge of learning when standard measures fall short.
Themes
Learning differences, Educational self-advocacy, Personal empowerment
Genres
Learning Disabilities, ADHD, Study & Test-Taking Skills

About this book

Written by two Ivy League graduates who struggled with learning disabilities and ADHD, Learning Outside the Lines teaches students how to take control of their education and find true success with brilliant and easy study suggestions and tips. Every day, your school, your teachers, and even your peers draw lines to measure and standardize intelligence. They decide what criteria make one person smart and another person stupid.

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They decide who will succeed and who will just get by. Perhaps you find yourself outside the norm, because you learn differently—but, unlike your classmates, you have no system in place that consistently supports your ability and desire to learn. Simply put, you are considered lazy and stupid. You are expected to fail. Learning Outside the Lines is written by two such “academic failures”—that is, two academic failures who graduated from Brown University at the top of their class. Jonathan Mooney and David Cole teach you how to take control of your education and find true success—and they offer all the reasons why you should persevere. 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.

Learning on Your Terms

A candid, witty guide to taking charge of learning when standard measures fall short.

Come here for

  • Study suggestions for students whose learning doesn’t fit the usual mold
  • A challenge to labels like “lazy” and “stupid”

Expect

  • Personal empowerment and reasons to persevere
  • A push to question educational rules

Where it sits

Study & Test-Taking Skills74%
Learning Disabilities67%
ADHD54%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Special Education
  • Learning Disabilities
  • Study & Test-Taking Skills
Authors
Jonathan Mooney, Dave Cole
Publisher
Touchstone
Published
September 5, 2000
Format
Print & ebook
Theme
Learning differences · Educational self-advocacy · Personal empowerment
Reading lane
Special Education