Two interesting articles doing the rounds recently caught my eye. The first was published by the BBC and asks in its headline, “Is five too soon to start school?”.
(btw – thanks to Scott Stantis for the cartoon).
The article compares England’s experience with countries such as Sweden, Denmark and Finland where school begins at seven years of […]

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Minnesota Public Radio did an interesting story on unschooling here. Here’s a quote from it:

For Roya Sooroshian, getting into college wasn’t a problem. She’s been unschooled since the fourth grade. She passed the high school equivalency exam at 15. Now, at 22, she just graduated from California State University at Long Beach.
Sooroshian says when she […]

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Homeschoolers make up over 1.1 million people in the USA. Obviously this is a very mixed bag, I remember reading one estimate of unschoolers within that being between 20 to 40% but for the life of me I cannot remember where I read that and how they came to that figure!
What ever the case […]

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This one is definitely worth a read. Long but gives a good sense of radical unschooling. It airs the usual criticisms – that it wont work for children who are “not questioners”… which misses the point that if children are given space to follow their interest and develop self motivation that they will. I think […]

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Another indication that unschooling is growing… view the coverage of unschooling on Dr Phil. While Dr Phil himself is quite hostile to homeschooling and unschooling, he does allow sane and eloquent radical unschoolers to put forward their case, which is a rare thing on mainstream tv.
visit his site and read the transcripts for yourself. […]

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A surprisingly positive article on unschooling in the New York Post.
I found it interesting to read that the numbers of homeschoolers grew to 1.1 million in the USA by 2003 and it was an upward trend.

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