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Self-Directed Learning Flourishes Online—Unless We Lose Net Neutrality
Self-Directed Learning Flourishes Online—Unless We Lose Net Neutrality

This is about more than just saving money: when the internet is a place where anyone, anywhere, can set up a website to talk about their passion and interact with like-minded people, and where anyone with an internet connection can find them, self-directed learning can take us anywhere … If we can't save net neutrality, young people who want to take charge of their own education will find that the internet has been turned into just another place where someone else decides what they can read, watch, and listen to …

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Community, Grown-up Homeschoolers, Homeschooling Current Issues, Ivan Illich, Legal Issues, Technology and EducationPatrick FarengaJeff Landale, Net neutrality, self-directed learning, self-directed educationComment
Homeschooled Teens
Homeschooled Teens

This new book surveys 75 former and current teenage homeschoolers about their feelings, thoughts, and experiences about not going to high school. The range of responses and the variety of educational experiences outside of conventional school that they describe will give heart to any parent wondering if homeschooling during the teen years is a smart move.

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Book Review, high school, Grown-up Homeschoolers, Homeschooling Current Issues, ParentingPatrick FarengaHomeschooled Teens, Sue Patterson, Unschooling teenagers, High School, Opportunities after high school Comment
Survey of Grown Unschoolers Shows All is Well
Survey of Grown Unschoolers Shows All is Well

". . . Most [unschooled adults surveyed] reported themselves to be at an academic advantage compared with their classmates, because they were not burned out by previous schooling, had learned as unschoolers to be self-directed and self-responsible, perceived it as their own choice to go to college, and were intent on making the most of what the college had to offer . . ."

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Grown-up Homeschoolers, Unschooled Adults, Unschooling ResearchPatrick FarengaDr. Peter Gray, unschooling, Unschoolers Research SurveyComment