Not Back to School Camp: A Glance Within

by Allen Ellis
1 month ago 1 month ag

Not Back to School Camp is a week-long camp for teenage unschoolers, which occurs annually in Oregon and Vermont. At this camp, both teens and staff gather to learn from, grow with, and inspire each other by sharing their talents, interests, and skills in true unschooler fashion.

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Homeschooling to be Criminalized in Sweden

Will be permitted only under “extraordinary circumstances.”

STOCKHOLM, March 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The government of Sweden is taking a hard line against homeschoolers, proposing a bill that will only allow home education under “extraordinary circumstances,” reports the Home School Legal Defense Association. The bill is expected to pass in the Swedish parliament, following a review [...]

UK: Young people self-harming with sharp objects up 50%

The number of young people admitted to hospital after cutting themselves deliberately is up by more than 50% in five years, according to new figures.

NASA Launches Interactive Simulation

(PhysOrg.com) — NASA today unveiled an interactive computer simulation that allows virtual explorers of all ages to dock the space shuttle at the International Space Station, experience a virtual trip to Mars or a lunar impact, and explore images of star formations taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.

In an effort to excite young people about [...]

Summer Montreal Unschoolers Gathering (SMUG)

[ 26 June , 2010 10:00 to 1 July , 2010 16:00. ]

This is a gathering of unschoolers, where we can laugh and play and have long discussions and take hikes and hang out in the beautiful city of Montreal! This is not a conference. There will not be speakers. There will, however, be as many planned activities as the attendees want to organize, which can be [...]

Top home-school texts dismiss Darwin, evolution

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Home-school mom Susan Mule wishes she hadn’t taken a friend’s advice and tried a textbook from a popular Christian publisher for her 10-year-old’s biology lessons.

Trouble in the Kingdom: Home Education Under Attack

From Radio Free School blog

While we in the 'provinces' enjoy a relatively non-intrusive home education environment our brothers and sisters in the UK are not faring as well.
You might have already heard of the vicious anti-home education campaign that's occurring over on the home island with the new measures being put in place to 'keep [...]

The Hall of Mirrors

By John Taylor Gatto

“As the twenty-first century begins its second decade, mass schooling is much as it was in 1910, at least for the poor and the ordinary. It is test-driven, bell-driven, pedagogue-dominated, and thoroughly dumbed down.”

Let me give you an excerpt from a boys’ manual of instructions on how to build things, published [...]

Web letter by Sarah Prater: Stereotypes of home-schooled children are incorrect

I’m 13 and have been home-schooled for eight years. I think people need to know more about home schooling because of the unfounded stereotypes that seem to label every child who is home-schooled. While some people do home school primarily because of their beliefs, special needs children or other reasons, it does not mean that [...]

Media Use by Teens and Adolescents Continues to Explode

From Open Education blog

Has the time come for parents to pull the plug on mobile media?

A recent study completed by the Kaiser Family Foundation brought little in the way of surprises for those who work with children. But just to set the record straight, the foundation found that daily media use among children and teens [...]

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