We published our first post a year ago in April, 2013. The focus of the blog changed at times as we wrote and reflected and responded — it moved further from the old journal that had originally inspired it. But…
— Guest Post by Whitney Muscato In introduction:The last post was a survey of grown unschoolers and homeschoolers, plus Sudbury school graduates, on behalf of my younger sister Whitney. She is writing a research paper for a college class, and she…
This is an unusual post, but I’m excited to share it – and hoping to hear from lots of you! My family had some great discussions around a couple of posts from September of last year – posts that addressed…
Mom and I were invited by The Homeschooler magazine to write about the homeschooling support group our family participated in while I was growing up. The piece was published in their Winter 2013 issue. The article was a conversation between my…
In the last post, I asked “why now?” regarding the growth of homeschooling in my lifetime. I sited Sugata Mitra and Sir Ken Robinson’s ideas about the outdated industrial-era model of our current education system. I also discussed Douglas Rushkoff’s…
One question that I’ve been trying to examine is: Why is the homeschooling movement growing now? What are the defining social conditions that shifted, beginning with a few inklings in the 1970s and picking up momentum in the 1990s, when…
A while back I shared a pen-pal letter that my older sister and I sent out to other homeschooling children in 1989. We used the directory in the back of the Growing Without Schooling Magazine to gather names and addresses, and…
It’s a busy time of year for everyone – I don’t expect you have much time to cozy up to your computer screen (or tablet, or phone) and read blog posts. But that’s not the real reason I’ve been slow…
I have been exploring what motivates different people to pursue work as teachers. This interview and my last post represent two interesting paths and experiences of peers of mine — a young generation of teachers. This interview is with an old friend…
Apologies for the recent quiet on the blog! It has been a hectic month of work, to say the least. But I have been working on a couple fun interviews with teachers I know. This first one is a conversation…