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Sweden Bans Homeschooling

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Sweden Bans Homeschooling

Pat Farenga explained the situation in his June 28th post: Sweden Bans Homeschooling: What would Pippi Longstocking say?, subtitled ‘Educational Freedom Takes Another Hit: Sweden makes homeschooling illegal’: “Our homeschooling friends in Sweden have suffered a major blow: On June 22, 2010 the Swedish Parliament effectively wiped-out the ability of families to choose homeschooling...
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The Revolution is Happening!

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Pat Farenga writes persuasively that The Learning Revolution is already happening, Sir Ken!: It is refreshing to hear someone with influence support homeschooling, even if ever so delicately, but this support is inevitable given Sir Ken’s thesis that personalized education is the coming revolution. After all, what can be a more personalized education than...
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Pat Farenga’s Analysis

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Pat Farenga has a good examination of the issues surrounding the current high-profile news stories about homeschooling at his blog, patfarenga.com: I think the unschooling segment I appeared on with the Yablonski/Biegler family on The Good Morning America TV show probably caused more heat than light today. There were so many important points to...
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Maryland- Unschooling “research needed in order to justify it”

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From home schooling to ‘unschooling’ By Joe Burris of the Baltimore Sun If most 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...
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Pat Farenga on Geraldo

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Yesterday evening, Pat Farenga of Holt Associates, and editor of the Growing Without Schooling newsletter, was interviewed on Geraldo Rivera’s television show. I missed seeing it (duty called), but the reports on email lists about the interview are positive. The one complaint is that the news show recommended that state boards of education be...
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