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Homeschoolers and Radical Unschoolers Making News—in a Good Way

Famous Unschoolers, Homeschooling Current Issues, Technology and EducationPatrick FarengaMay 20, 2011Homeschooling, biosand water filer, radical unschooling Comment

School as Behavior Modification Center: Mission Accomplished!

Homeschooling Current Issues, Learning and TeachingPatrick FarengaMay 13, 2011B.F. Skinner, Dennis Rader, Public School, ThorndikeComment

Reading the Tea Leaves in School's Cups

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

Learning Foreign Languages or Just Learning to Play the School Game?

Homeschooling Current Issues, John Holt, Learner-centered curricula, Learning and TeachingPatrick FarengaApril 28, 2011John Holt, School, foreign languages Comments

Growing Up in a World of Information Overload

Homeschooling Current IssuesPatrick FarengaMarch 16, 2011information overload, technology, video Comment

On Unschooling, Parenting, and Video Addiction

Homeschooling Current Issues, ParentingPatrick FarengaMarch 14, 2011addiction, radical unschooling, unschooling, video Comments

Correction on Spain and a Conference About Ivan Illich's Work

Homeschooling Current Issues, Ivan Illich, SpainPatrick FarengaMarch 4, 2011HomeschoolingComment

Homeschooling is Officially Illegal in Spain

Homeschooling Current Issues, SpainPatrick FarengaJanuary 19, 2011homeschool, illegal Comments

A Matter of Conscience

Homeschooling Current Issues, Learner-centered curricula, Sweden, UK homeschoolingPatrick FarengaNovember 5, 2010German homeschool, Homeschooling, Swedish Homeschooling Comment

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

Wondering About Life and Learning

Homeschooling Current Issues, John Holt, UnschoolingPatrick FarengaSeptember 22, 2010Homeschooling, School, Segregation, child abuseComment

Child-driven Education

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

Taught Mother Tongue and the Rise of Compulsory Education

Homeschooling Current Issues, Sweden, UnschoolingPatrick FarengaAugust 31, 2010Compulsory Education, Illich, India, Nebrija, Right to Education ActComment

The Complacency of Sentimental Education

Homeschooling Current Issues, John HoltPatrick FarengaAugust 25, 2010Back to School, Homeschooling, John Holt, Schooling, Sentimentality Comment

Valedictorian Video

Homeschooling Current Issues, UnschoolingPatrick FarengaAugust 16, 2010High School, homeschool, valedictorianComment

Homeschooling's Liberal Judge and Other Piece's of Interest

College, Homeschooling Current Issues, John HoltPatrick FarengaJuly 27, 2010Cost of College Degrees, Gay marriage, HomeschoolingComment

Valedictorian Says Goodbye to Standardized Schooling

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

Sweden Bans Homeschooling: What would Pippi Longstocking say?

Homeschooling Current Issues, SwedenPatrick FarengaJune 28, 2010Swedish Homeschooling, educational freedom Comments

Homeschooling Update from the United Kingdom

Homeschooling Current IssuesPatrick FarengaJune 17, 2010Badman, Great Britain, Homeschooling, UK Comment