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Speaking Out About the Tight Collar of Curriculum

Alternative schooling, Homeschooling Current Issues, Learner-centered curriculaPatrick FarengaMay 1, 2012Interdisciplinary learning, Marion Brady, flexible curriculaComment

Student Liberation and Childism

Alternative schooling, Homeschooling Current Issues, Learning and TeachingPatrick FarengaMarch 9, 2012Childism, Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, Student Liberation, unschoolingComment

Stop Stealing Dreams and Homeschooling

Alternative schooling, Homeschooling Current IssuesPatrick FarengaMarch 5, 2012Seth Godin, Stop Stealing Dreams, criticism of homeschooling Comments

Reflections from an Adult Unschooler

Alternative schooling, John Holt, UnschoolingPatrick FarengaFebruary 8, 2012Astra Taylor, Growing Without Schooling, educational freedom, unschoolingComment

Gallup Poll and CNN Story: Schooling Down, Unschooling Up

Alternative schooling, Homeschooling Current Issues, UnschoolingPatrick FarengaAugust 10, 2011Gallup poll, Public School, unschoolingComment

Reading the Tea Leaves in School's Cups

Alternative schooling, Homeschooling Current IssuesPatrick FarengaMay 3, 2011Deschooling, Greg Mortenson, Poverty, School Comment

Let the Kids Rule High School

Alternative schooling, AutodidactPatrick FarengaMarch 16, 2011High School, Independent ProjectComment

The More Things Change the More They Stay the Same

Alternative schooling, Homeschooling, Learner-centered curricula, UnschoolingPatrick FarengaFebruary 15, 2011Homeschooling, Pat Farenga, television interview, unschooling Comment

More free online learning resources for adults and children

Alternative schooling, Learner-centered curricula, UnschoolingPatrick FarengaJanuary 25, 2011Homeschooling, online learning, self-directed learning Comments

The Unschooling Channel

Alternative schooling, Homeschooling Current Issues, Learner-centered curriculaPatrick FarengaSeptember 29, 2010Pat Farenga, unschooling Comment

Homeschoolers in Fiction and Non-linear Curriculum

Alternative schooling, Homeschooling Current Issues, Learner-centered curriculaPatrick FarengaSeptember 27, 2010Lisa Cottrell-Bentley, Marion Brady, flexible curricula, homeschoolers in fictionComment

Child-driven Education

Alternative schooling, Homeschooling Current Issues, UnschoolingPatrick FarengaSeptember 16, 2010Sugata Mitra, child-driven education, self-directed learning, unschooling Comments

It's Time to Homeschool College

Alternative schooling, College, HomeschoolingPatrick FarengaAugust 3, 2010Cost of College Degrees, Homeschooling, alternatives to college Comments

Valedictorian Says Goodbye to Standardized Schooling

Alternative schooling, Homeschooling Current IssuesPatrick FarengaJuly 21, 2010John Holt, John Taylor Gatto, graduation Comment

The Learning Revolution is already happening Sir Ken!

Alternative schooling, Homeschooling, John Holt, UnschoolingPatrick FarengaMay 26, 2010Sir Ken Robinson, homeschool, learning revolution Comments

“I beseech you: leave your child’s learning alone.”

Rare footage of John Holt speaking with a group of homeschoolers in Spokane, WA in the early 1980s.

Alternative schooling, John HoltPatrick FarengaMarch 15, 2010John Holt video, john holt lecture, unschooling Comments

All homeschoolers would qualify for asylum

Alternative schooling, Homeschooling Current IssuesPatrick FarengaMarch 3, 2010German homeschool, Romeike, homeschool political asylum Comments

Update On Political Asylum for Homeschoolers

Alternative schooling, Homeschooling Current IssuesPatrick FarengaMarch 1, 2010German homeschool, Romeike, judge's decision Comment