Mark on January 16th, 2010

Reading the headline, More Parents Opting For Homeschooling, in my newsreader I thought I knew what I would find. But when I followed the link:

Does your child hate going to school? Is she stressed out, pressurized and overloaded? Or, are you sick of the conventional schooling system? Simple, don’t send them to school. Try homeschooling [...]

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From home schooling to ‘unschooling’
By Joe Burris of the Baltimore Sun
If most [people] think back to their own school experiences, how much of the information you were expected to learn do you know today?” added Conner, an unschooling parent. “We cannot know beyond the shadow of a doubt precisely what our children will need when [...]

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Woodbury teen (un) schooled in ways of the world REPUBLICAN-AMERICAN
BY MATT JOHNSON
“I really got a sense of being a self-learner,” he said. “When you’re unschooled, you never stop learning just because you leave the classroom. I know how to seek the information that I want, and that’s huge in college.”
But while he was able to [...]

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Helen Hegener on January 19th, 2009

If you’re looking for resources for Inaguration Day check out the great posts by Kathy Kidd-Wuest at the HEM Networking discussion group. From Martin Luther King’s “I have a Dream” speech to the National Geographic’s photo gallery to live streaming sites, Kathy shares some terrific links and resources for this historic event!

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If you haven’t seen Julian Kreusser’s television program on Portland, Oregon public television or online at Blip.tv, you will want to check his show out soon.
Julian is an unschooler who has been interested in food since he was three. He is now five and his show is delightful.  I learned of this young chef via  Five-Year-Old [...]

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