Unschooling continues to have ‘its recent’ higher-than-it-used-to profile in the news. First, from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, we have an article from the Feb. 26, 2007, Sun-Herald, which focuses on the Morris family and how they decided to unschool. The article, Unschooling: Unconventional Teaching Approach Gaining Popularity by Carolyn Norton also features comments by...
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Unschooling in the News, times two
January articles about unschooling
Indianapolis Star, Indianapolis, Indiana, 6 January 2007, Lessons are fluid, and there is no plan: Popularity of ‘unschooling’ grows for Hoosiers There aren’t any statistics on unschoolers yet, but their popularity is reflected in the number of unschooling message boards on the Internet, the frequency of unschooling conferences and the slow but steady movement...
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Sounds like jealousy
The Tennesseean, Nashville, Tennessee, 31 January 2007, Unworking dreamy but unworkable Unschooling, in case you haven’t heard of it, is a trendy education technique used by a handful of home school parents. They let their kids decide what they want to learn and when they want to learn it. If the kid shows no...
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MIT Thesis On Unschooling and the Media
Unschooling has gotten a lot of attention recently in the mainstream media. An academic has made it the focus of her masters thesis in Comparative Media Studies at MIT. Vanessa Bertozzi has posted several excerpts from her thesis, Unschooling Media: Participatory Practices among Progressive Homeschoolers. Bertozzi does a good job giving a general description...
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Unschooling … a little bit of ‘don’t try this at home’
Education Week News, Bethesda, Maryland, 19 December 2006, Unschooling’ Stresses Curiosity More Than Traditional Academics As yellow school buses rumble through Nicole Puckett’s Spokane, Wash., neighborhood, her eight children are often asleep in bed. When they wake up, instead of heading to school, they go downstairs to begin another day of “unschooling,” an educational...
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Should have known…..
That Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia creator, was homeschooling his child. I found that tidbit on the Popwire: Jimmy Wales: trying to educate the planet via Wikipedia. His daughter is only 5 and Florida’s compulsory attendance age apparently starts at 6. So I guess homeschoolers couldn’t have official bragging rights yet. (I’d be bragging as I...
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Unschooling report from Michigan
WKOW, Madison, Wisconsin, 13 December 2006, UN-Schooling Un-schooling is the idea that children will teach themselves what interests them, and parents are there only to go along with the ride. 27 News talked to a mother and author about this very different type of teaching. Alison McKee says the function of this type of...
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More unschooling in the news!
Last week I was on my way out of a Dr.’s office and I was surprised to hear Dr. Sanjay Gupta of CNN Health Channel talking about the importance of unstructured learning for children. He also mentioned Christopher Paolini so I visited the CNN Health Channel to try and find the report. I wasn’t...
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Unschooling article creates not-unexpected replies
I can understand a ‘civilian’s’ reaction to the concept of unschooling because I didn’t embrace it when we set off on what would be our homeschooling adventure. (a tip of the hat to HSWatch for the link) Salem’s Lots blog, 11 October 2006, I was born way too late, or, Unschooling, no fooling… This...
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American Public Media Gets “The Story” on Unschooling
Today’s broadcast (Tuesday, April 24, 2007) of The Story (American Public Media) revisits unschooling, allowing Kate Walsh, former teacher and critic of unschooling, an opportunity to address her concerns about not sending children to school, in response to The Story’s original broadcast on unschooling (February 21, 2007) . Host Dick Gordon also invites Valerie...
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