Welcome to the World of Self-Directed Education
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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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 …
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 – …
Alternatives To School contributor, Gina Riley, Ph.D., follows up with many of the grown unschoolers who participated in the research study on grown unschoolers that she and Dr. Peter Gray conducted …
Hello! My name is Teaghan Rose and I am 18 years old. I began homeschooling when I was seven years old, stopped at 12, and started again at 15. I have two brothers (six and 12) and a sister (16) who …
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By: Alexander Khost Summerhill students along with students and staff from five countries during International Schools Week 2015. “When people come here, they don’t say that Neill’s writing …
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