Educational Organizations that Support Unschooling
Please suggest groups and sites to add. Email suggestions to pat farenga at john holt gws.com.
United Kingdom
Personalized Education Now
A publication and website by Roland and Janet Meighan, founders of Education Heretics Press.
Education Heretics
A great source of publications and research that challenges the stale conventional wisdom that we are getting dumber and the world is getting more complicated, so we all need to be in school for as long as we can pay for it.
Informal Education
Devoted to the study of informal learning for adults and recent school graduates. One article specifically addresses homeschooling.
India
Shikshantar
Creating learning societies, rebuilding communities, deschooling/unschooling in India. Some fascinating educational activism. Inspiring work.
The United States of America
AERO
The Alternative Education Resource Organization (AERO) is a non-profit organization founded in 1989 to advance learner-centered approaches to education.
IDEA
Institute for Democratic Education in America wants to ensure that all young people can engage meaningfully with their education and gain the tools to build a just, democratic, and sustainable world.
The Innovative Educator
Lisa Nielsen, co-author of Teaching Generation Text, works in the NY State school system but promotes and explores all learning, whether it happens in school or out.
North Star: Self-Directed Learning for Teens
A learning center for teenagers who want an alternative to conventional high school that holds seminars in how to create a similar center in your neighborhood.
Student Liberation
This site is about school and the harm it inflicts. But it's also about life. A life of joy and excitement. A life of endless possiblities. A life that schools try to take away.
