Posts Tagged ‘ history of homeschooling ’

Film Director Astra Taylor

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Film Director Astra Taylor

In this brilliant video lecture, The history of alternative schooling and homeschooling, Canadian-American documentary filmmaker and writer Astra Taylor describes her own homeschooling – specifically unschooling as promoted by John Holt in his ground-breaking publication Growing Without Schooling (“delivered to our mailbox in a brown paper bag”). She contextualizes her unschooled experiences and the...
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Homeschooling Goes Mainstream

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Recently two homeschool advocates were guests on the Kojo Nnamdo radio show titled “Homeschooling Goes Mainstream.” The discussion centered on the history of homeschooling and the diversity of the greater homeschooling community. The guests were Celeste Land, Director of Government Affairs for the Organization of Virginia Homeschoolers, and a member of the board of...
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Homeschool History Lessons

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The Carnival of Homeschooling #239 is hosted this week at The Common Room blog: “Although a theme is not necessary to host the homeschooling carnival (I have hosted with no theme before), it can be fun. This week’s theme is a bit ambitious. It is… the history of homeschooling in America. Please understand this...
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Who started what kind of homeschooling, and when?

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The following article is a pleasant enough bread & butter article about homeschooling in New York state. The one incongruous note is almost a historical footnote, ‘who started what kind of homeschooling, and when.’ Home schooling on the rise locally, 15 June 2007, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, Rochester, New York Those reasons offer a...
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