Research and Support for Growing Without Schooling

Unschooling/homeschooling is a great way to help children learn, but not everyone can, should, or wants to homeschool. However, it is pretty obvious that universal compulsory schooling inhibits different approaches to learning, limits teaching methods, and increases costs through ever-increasing demands for credentials and higher grades. For educationists, it appears the ultimate goal is to put us all in school and test us from womb to tomb, placing us in asociety where test scores decide our roles.  Here are research and alternatives from around the world to this scenario, with special attention to unschooling. —PF