“It didn’t prepare me academically, but it did make me resourceful. When you grow up having to make things work with nothing, ...

A growing number of families are “unschooling” their children. But the self-directed education based on activities and life experiences chosen by their child rather than parents or teachers has faced ...

Recently, I was helping my kindergartener with his school bug project—a task that should have been fun (researching stink bugs! The dream assignment for a 5-year-old boy!). But as he struggled to ...

Unschooling is a movement that turns conventional thinking about education upside down. I'd like to learn more about it and tell the world more about it, and for that reason I'm conducting a survey of ...