by Allen Ellis
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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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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 [...]
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.
(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 [...]
[ 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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
Now human rights organizations reviewing 'state-napping'
Annie and Dominic Johansson
Social workers have been visiting a Swedish couple whose son was "abducted" by government agents last year because he was being homeschooled, but that's not necessarily a good sign, and now two major rights organizations are exploring options to reunite the family.
The Home School Legal Defense Association [...]
TRINITY — When Florida lawmakers required public school districts to provide local online course offerings, they decided the programs would be open only to students who had spent at least one full year in the public schools.
Wendy Howard and her daughter Jessica, who was being home-schooled last year, decided that wasn't fair.
They began a petition [...]
to 'Learning Freely', an information site regarding Natural Learning, UnSchooling and autonomous Home based Education. Intended as a collective of families, and groups from around the world, to connect, share and learn from each other, we also provide such information to parents and children seeking to understand the possibilities.
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