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Twitter Chats for Homeschoolers

Homeschooling Current Issues, Technology and EducationPatrick FarengaMay 16, 2012Homeschooling News, TwitterComment

New Issue of Journal of Unschooling and Alternative Learning is Available

Homeschooling Current IssuesPatrick FarengaMay 10, 2012JUAL, Journal of Unschooling and Alternative LearningComment

The Vatican Comes Out in Support of Homeschooling

Homeschooling Current Issues, Legal Issues, ReligionPatrick FarengaMay 9, 2012Catholic Unschooling, Homeschooling News, VaticanComment

The Benefits of Homeschooling Teenagers

Homeschooling Current Issues, Learner-centered curricula, high schoolPatrick FarengaMay 2, 2012Homeschooling, Ken Danford, North Star, Teenagers Comments

Speaking Out About the Tight Collar of Curriculum

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

John Gatto's Weapons of Mass Instruction Speech

Homeschooling Current Issues, Learning and Teaching, Public School IssuesPatrick FarengaApril 25, 2012John Taylor Gatto, School reform, Weapons of Mass Instruction Comment

How School Colonizes Minds and Cultures

Community, Homeschooling Current Issues, Ivan IllichPatrick FarengaMarch 29, 2012Carol Black, Ivan Illich, John Holt, Schooling the World Comments

Never Judge Someone Based on Their Schooling

Autodidact, Famous Unschoolers, Homeschooling Current IssuesPatrick FarengaMarch 15, 2012Grant Colfax, Homeschooling News, President Obama Comments

Student Liberation and Childism

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

Stop Stealing Dreams Panel Discussion Now Online

Homeschooling Current Issues, Media AppearancesPatrick FarengaMarch 8, 2012Future of Education, Stop Stealing Dreams Comment

The Future of Education: Online Discussion

Homeschooling Current Issues, Learning and TeachingPatrick FarengaMarch 7, 2012Future of Education, Seth Godin, Stop Stealing Dreams Comments

Stop Stealing Dreams and Homeschooling

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

The War on Kids: A Free Screening at Harvard University

Homeschooling Current Issues, Media AppearancesPatrick FarengaMarch 2, 2012Cevin Soling, Harvard, The war on kidsComment

The Moral Argument Against Compulsory Education

Homeschooling Current Issues, Public School IssuesPatrick FarengaFebruary 28, 2012Cevin Soling, Compulsory Education, Public School, Slavery Comment

Slate Magazine Dumps on Homeschooling

Homeschooling Current Issues, Ivan Illich, John Holt, UnschoolingPatrick FarengaFebruary 16, 2012Homeschooling, Slate, criticism of homeschooling Comments

Homeschooling's Past Informs the Present

Homeschooling Current Issues, John Holt, Learning and TeachingPatrick FarengaJanuary 31, 2012Finland, Homeschooling, School reformComment

The Willed Curriculum

Homeschooling Current Issues, Learning and TeachingPatrick FarengaJanuary 30, 2012The WIlled Curriculum, self-directed learning, unschoolingComment

Educación Sin Escuela and Other News

Homeschooling Current Issues, Learning and TeachingPatrick FarengaJanuary 17, 2012Homeschooling News, Universidad Nacional, homeschool Comment

The Dark Side of Government Schooling in Sweden

Homeschooling Current Issues, SwedenPatrick FarengaJanuary 12, 2012Swedish Homeschooling, professional education Comments

Young, Smart, Influential at 17 and Homeschooled

Homeschooling, Homeschooling Current Issues, Technology and EducationPatrick FarengaJanuary 10, 2012Forbes, Homeschooling, Javier Fernandez-Han, inventorComment