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Bringing Unschooling to School – A Conversation with Free Student Press...
By Alex Walker My son is only three years old, but even before he was born I was determined to raise him in a less conventional way. I knew homeschooling – or more specifically, unschooling – would...
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5 Dumb Things I Used to Think About School – A Teacher Turns on the Value of...
I have worked in a middle school for 20 years, and over the past eight years I have changed, and not just in the wrinkly, grey-hair way. My thinking and philosophies have changed as well. Below are...
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Kenneth Danford, the Executive Director and Co-Founder of North Star: Self-Directed Learning for Teens in Sunderland, Massachusetts, gave a talk at the Thrive 2020 Conference held in Guernsey, UK, on...
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Why School Is Failing My Son
by Jim Strickland One of the saddest realizations of my life is that the institution in which I have placed my time, energy, and hope for the past 25 years is failing my own son. Owen is 14 years old...
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When Did It Stop Being Fun?
By Pamela Mayers-Schoenberg “Our kids are our future.” This is something I hear constantly as a parent of three children. Nowadays, the expectations by both parents and society do not permit our kids...
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Learning. It’s Not About Education.
by Laura Grace Weldon Learning is a whole experience of mind, body, and self in relation to the world When you pick up an orange you feel its texture and weight in your hand. You breathe in scent...
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Confessions of a Teacher’s Pet
By Heather Svanidze I should be a public school success story. I had straight A’s from kindergarten through high school (if you don’t count 9th grade PE, and the fact that I remember that single B...
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Dumping the high school diploma
by Jim Strickland Imagine someone offering you a certificate for speaking a foreign language, or putting new brakes on a car, or playing a musical instrument, or some other skill. There are three...
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A Community of Self-Directed Learners
by Sandra Dickie I would like to address the idea that I hear expressed from time to time that there is no point sending your kids to a self-directed learning center or school if they’re just going to...
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Preparing For College: Helping Your Home-Based Learner Ace The ACT
The homeschooling movement continues to grow in the U.S. as a report notes that there are about 1.5 million homeschooled children in the country. As more people have found that there’s a better way to...
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