Not-Back-to-School Support

Getting into the Ivy League is not a good reason to homeschool—there's no guarantee you will gain admission and why put all that pressure on a young child? But following your children's interests and developing their character are good reasons to homeschool, as these stories show.

College, Homeschooling Current Issues, Homeschooling Films, Media Appearances, VideoPatrick FarengaAugust 31, 2015not-back-to-school, Homeschooling in America, homeschooling movie, self-directed learning, Blake Boles, Jeremy Stuart, Boston magazineComment

Homeschooling the Elementary School Years

Homeschooling Current Issues, Learner-centered curricula, Legal Issues, Public School Issues, Religion, UnschoolingPatrick FarengaMarch 22, 2015starting to homeschool, unschooling webinar, Homeschooling in AmericaComment

Deep and Personal: Two Parents Write about Becoming Unschoolers

Fin and Rye drying foraged chokecherries. The boys know where to find wild mushrooms and berries, "and Lord knows what else [they] are eating out there," Hewitt writes on his blog . . .

Learner-centered curricula, Parenting, UnschoolingPatrick FarengaAugust 14, 2014Homeschooling in America, Ben Hewitt, Kerry McDonald, unschoolingComment

Homeschooling Summarized in the Congressional Quarterly Researcher

After outlining the general issues the March 7, 2014, Congressional Quarterly Researcher report looks in depth at three key questions:

1. Should governments oversee home schooling more strictly?
2. Is home schooling academically superior to public schooling?
3. Can home schooling help the public school system?

Homeschooling Current Issues, Homeschooling History, Homeschooling research, John Holt, Legal IssuesPatrick FarengaMarch 18, 2014Congressional Quarterly Researcher, Homeschooling News, Homeschooling in America Comments

Homeschool Teens Wanted for Research on Moral and Civic Development

A call for homeschoolers, ages 13 to 18, to participate in a research study about their civic and moral development during their high school years.

Homeschooling Current Issues, Homeschooling researchPatrick FarengaJanuary 16, 2014Moral and civic education, Homeschooling in America, Jeffrey DillComment

Two School Reforms You Don’t Have to Wait for Educators to Implement

Meaningful relationships with adults and honoring sleep patterns are two factors for success in life that are neglected in just about all school reforms. Photo: Kids and adults at the first Holt/Growing Without Schooling picnic in 1986.

Homeschooling research, Homeschooling Current Issues, Learning and TeachingPatrick FarengaMarch 27, 2013Homeschooling in America, Sleep deprivation, Relationships, Social Capital Comments

John Holt GWS