Bureaucrats Declare War on Learning Pods. They'll Lose.
Flexible education crafted to meet family needs is destined to prevail over failing government schools.
Homeschooling
COVID-19 Didn't Break the Public School System. It Was Already Broken.
Families are leaving traditional schools in record numbers for pods, homeschooling, charters, and more.
Could All Parents Have 'Pandemic Pods' If There Were More School Choice? A Soho Forum Debate
As K–12 education goes remote, groups of parents are hiring teachers to teach their kids in person. Is that wrong?
Teachers Unions Push Families Out of Public Schools
Kids are beside the point when government officials and union leaders keep them waiting on labor negotiations that serve everybody but students and their families.
Once Marginalized, Homeschooling Hits the Mainstream
DIY approaches to education—including homeschooling, learning pods, and microschools—are gaining popularity as public schools fold under pressure.
Why Pandemic Pods are 'the Ultimate In Parent-Driven Education Innovation'
With public schools largely out of commission, parents are putting together their own ad hoc schooling alternatives.
Viewpoint Diversity Gets a Boost as Families Flee Public Schools
Independent education means a wide range of approaches as to what children are taught.
Private Schools Are Adapting to Lockdown Better Than the Public School Monopoly
A new survey finds parents are substantially more satisfied with private and charter schools’ responses to the pandemic than they were with those of traditional public schools.
More Mudslinging in the Debate Over School Reopening
Plus: World population could peak sooner than expected, data cast doubt on vaping and lung cancer link, massive Twitter hack had inside help, and more...
Families Turn to Homeschooling as the Education Establishment Fumbles Its Pandemic Response
If you can’t count on schools to perform their core educational responsibilities, why wouldn’t you look elsewhere?
Education Won't Be the Same After the Pandemic Passes
After an unexpected experience with different approaches to learning, many families won’t want to return to business as usual.
How to Teach Your Kids During the Coronavirus Pandemic: Try 'Unschooling'
Education researcher Kerry McDonald sees this crisis as an opportunity to experiment with self-directed learning.
How Coronavirus Is Kickstarting the 21st Century
A global pandemic has done what 30 years of internet manifestoes never accomplished: a mass migration into our screens.
Why Are Public Schools Fighting To Keep Home School Kids Off Their Teams?
In West Virginia, advocates have been fighting to pass the Tim Tebow Act since 2011. They're on the verge of scoring a partial legislative victory.
Whatever Happened to the Classroom of the Future?
Clayton Christensen, father of the theory of "disruptive innovation," predicted that half of high school classes would be delivered online by 2018. What went wrong?
Do Kids Need School? Inside the 'Unschooling' Movement
"School is a place where children go to learn to be stupid," said author and educator John Holt.
Private Schools Provide Educational Choice—For Now
Private schools are holding their ground against surging competition and scared regulators.
Homeschooling Produces Better-Educated, More-Tolerant Kids. Politicians Hate That
Government officials should use the success of the competition as an educational moment.
Constitutional Right to Home-School?
An interesting opinion from a Georgia Court of Appeals chief judge Stephen Dillard.
The Fate of Arizona's Successful School Choice Initiative Hangs in a November Ballot Measure
Until we can get government entirely out of education, we'll have to keep fighting to preserve and expand our ability to choose what's right for our kids.
Don't Homeschool Your Kids, Unschool Them
Homeschoolers are increasingly ridding themselves not just of schools but of traditional notions about schooling.
Back To School Choice
These days, kids are heading back to increasingly varied learning experiences that might or might not include anything recognizable as a traditional school.
Arizona's #RedForEd Fiasco Was a Gift to School Choice Advocates
Seeing your kids held hostage in a battle between government factions is a great incentive to look for alternatives.
"Micro-Schools" Might Be the Next Big Education Thing: Podcast
It's way past time that we dump factory-model schools for more individualized K-12 programs.
DeVos Opponents Think About Homeschooling Instead. Good for Them!
The system was developed by people attempting to get away from government control.
Homeschooling Then and Now
Friday A/V Club: When homeschooling was a novelty
Homeschoolers Aren't Waiting on Politicians' Promises of School Choice
Teaching your own kids is a do-it-yourself option for an individualistic age.
Homeschooling Is Just DIY Education
As it turns out, you can often do better than the "experts"
Waldorf, Montessori, Unschooling: Alternative Education Comes to China
Middle-class parents give Western models a try.
Homeschooling: The New Techie Fad?
Wired notes a growing conflation between cutting-edge tech thinking and escaping the education monopoly.
The Left/Right Alliance That Legalized Homeschooling
And its descendant, the fight against Common Core
Supreme Court Rejects Asylum Bid for German Home-Schoolers
Wanted to come to America because Germany doesn't allow it
