Dallas Observer
A tip o’ the hat to Daryl Cobranchi for alerting me to this wonderful article about an unschooled young man in Texas:
About 6-foot-3 and lean, Quinn has a hairless but muscular chest revealed by a laced-up white linen shirt. (Which he made.) Around his neck is a leather strap with a long silver pendant. [...]
I’ve admired author Daniel Pink’s writing since his first book, Free Agent Nation: How America’s New Independent Workers Are Transforming the Way We Live, appeared in 2001.
That groundbreaking book was about the growing ranks of people who work for themselves, often from their homes, and how their different and unique ways of looking at [...]
Homeschooling Is Legal
From this informative site:
Some materials published by the Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) include frightening scenarios that depict homeschoolers being threatened by agents of Social Services. But what are the chances that a homeschooling family would ever have contact with Social Services? Does HSLDA truly offer any real protection? And what [...]
An Unschooler Takes on High School
From a friend’s new weblog:
After homeschooling all her life, my daughter Stephanie (Stevie) decided to go to high school this year. How will a 14-year-old who has never attended a public school handle it the pressures of classes, schedules and the big S word, socialization? I don’t know. Her story [...]
Frontiersman Op-Ed: “No good reason to duck accountability”
 Alaska has been the focus of plenty of homeschooling news over the past several weeks, as critics of what most homeschoolers acknowledge as one of the best homeschooling laws in the nation have taken aim and fired articles, letters, cartoons, and opinion pieces to two of the most [...]
