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 [...]
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 [...]
Salon.com Life | Endless summer
Unschooling is the topic of a feature article at this morning’s online magazine, Salon.
“Endless Summer,” by editorial fellow Sarah Karnasiewicz, starts out with this definition: “Unschooling is a radical branch of home-schooling where kids control what and when they learn — free of teachers, schedules and tests. Unschoolers say it’s intellectually [...]
