Emily Subler explores the concept of unschooling with Sandra Dodd in this 1998 interview from HEM:
Emily: Unschooling may appear overwhelming to some people who misunderstand its fundamentals. Why do you think it’s difficult to understand the concept of unschooling and why are many folks aggressive in their attacks of its philosophy?
Sandra: People attack what they [...]
We noted the passing of author and unschooling advocate Ned Vare last week, and we’re still coming across reminders of the good work Ned and his wife Luz Shosie did for homeschooling families, like this interview with Luz and Ned which Mary Nix did for HEM last year:
“Homeschooling does not need to be schooling-at-home. Real [...]
Dana Hanley’s blog, Principled Discovery, is often thoughtful and thought-provoking, as with this post from Thursday:
On the way to gymnastics this week, my Baby Bear shouted, “No! Stop!” as we were approaching the railroad tracks. I instinctively slowed down.
“What’s wrong?” I asked.
“Railroad tracks,” he said matter-of-factly.
“Yes, dear. But there’s no train.”
“I know. Can we [...]
“I thought we were free. We packed up our worldly goods and broken lives and headed across country and back home. It’s amazing to me how a bad school experience can wreak havoc not only on parent/teacher relationships and parent/child relationships, but marital relationships as well. The mental and physical health of everyone involved was [...]
In his debut My Word! column for Home Education Magazine, the Sept/Oct 2000 issue, author and homeschool advocate David Albert chose to write about “A Flat Universe and the Nature of Science“:
About a month ago, a homeschooling mom with an obviously precocious ten-year-old, wrote to me with a problem:
“We read in The New York Times [...]
The issues surrounding homeschooling and public school programs, whether academic or extracurricular, are not new, and over the years a lot has been published on this issue. A search of the archives on this site has 12 pages of posts on homeschooling and sports, dating back to April, 2005. The concern about the risks of [...]
