45 Wise Life Lessons
By Regina Brett To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most requested column I’ve ever written. My odometer rolled…
Education
Why Did 17 Million Students Go to College?
Richard Vedder Chronicle Two sets of information were presented to me in the last 24 hours that have dramatically reinforced my feeling that diminishing returns…
Unemployed BC Law student asks for money back
Jessica Heslam Boston Herald A third-year Boston College Law School student facing dismal job prospects and a mountain of student loan debt has offered the…
Changing Education Paradigms
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A Journey to Unschooling
Mary Hickcox Activist Post Unschooling is a term that John Holt coined in the 70s, after years of extensive research regarding how children learn and…
Background Checks Required to Visit Your Kids at School
Matt Ryan InfoWars Over 3,700 schools in Texas and 7,000 nationwide have implemented a system requiring parents visiting their children to undergo a background check…
Texas Board Of Education Approves Resolution To Limit Islam References
Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas State Board of Education adopted a resolution Friday that seeks to curtail references to Islam in Texas textbooks,…
4 Reasons to Change the Way We View Education
Mary Hickcox Activist Post The way in which we view education has a lot to do with our past; how we grew up, societal influences,…
The Deschooling and Unschooling Movement is Growing
Kate Hammer Prevent Disease A small but growing movement known as deschooling, life learning, unschooling, and edu-punk is home-schooling returned to its postwar progressive roots,…
More families are deciding that school’s out – forever
Kate Hammer The Globe and Mail It has been Saturday in the Laricchia household for nearly a decade. The family’s three teenagers, Michael, Lissy and…
Offshoring math? School ‘outsources teaching to India’
Ramya Tadikonda works for TutorVista and tutors students online from her home in Chennai, India. photo: Namas Bhojani Daniel Tencer Raw Story People in developed…
The Child-Driven Education
Schooling: The Hidden Agenda
A talk given at the Houston Unschoolers Group Family Learning Conference Daniel Quinn Natural Child I suspect that not everyone in this audience knows who…
Homeschoolers Interrogated by Secret Police, Face Imprisonment
HSLDA Four families who reside in Mahalapye, Botswana face an uncertain future due to an increasingly tense standoff over the issue of homeschooling. The families,…