It also meant that they didn’t believe in public education so Tara, and her brothers, received very little to no schooling before the age of 17.Westover was taught growing up that a woman’s ...

Tara Westover was a freshman in college when she first heard of the Holocaust. “I don’t know this word,” she told a professor in class. “What does it mean?” “There was a silence ...

Author Tara Westover grew up in an extreme survivalist family in Idaho. She and her siblings had no formal education, but she taught herself algebra, aced the entrance exam for BYU and got in. It ...

Tara Westover's "Educated" describes her experience growing up without a formal education. Yet other factors involved in the way she was raised prepared her for extremism.

Tara Westover is living proof that some people are flat-out, boots-always-laced-up indomitable. Her new book, Educated (Random House, 334 pp., ★★★★ out of four), is a heartbreaking ...

Tara Westover was raised by survivalist parents in the mountains of rural Idaho, and didn’t go to school. “Dad said public school was a ploy by the Government to lead children away from God ...

EDUCATED: A Memoir, by Tara Westover. Random House, 334 pp., $28. How many ways can a family be screwed up? Let us, via memoirs, count the ways. Bohemians surely know how to do it. In Jeanette ...

Bestselling, breakout author of the memoir "Educated," Tara Westover reflects on the purpose and power of education, the importance of putting students in control of their own learning, and her ...

Readers respond to an essay by Tara Westover, the author of “Educated,” about college education and the American dream. To the Editor: Re “I Am Not Proof of the American Dream,” by Tara ...

Tara Westover describes schooling without school in searing memoir ‘Educated’ Originally published April 1, 2018 at 6:00 am Updated April 4, 2018 at 1:13 pm ...

When Tara Westover left for college, her worldview was no longer dominated by her father's perspective. Source: Photo by Sharefaith from Pexels “There’s a world out there, Tara,” he said ...