School Sucks Podcast: The END of Public Education
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Links to web and other resources for expanding your knowledge on the topics of educational history and thought, homeschooling and unschooling. Organizations supporting self-education or alternative education are also included here.
School-survival.net
http://www.school-survival.net/
This is a support site for students who can't stand being forced to go to school. We are not telling you to drop out, rebel or do anything in particular. What you do is your decision and yours alone, we can just provide support and information for whatever choice you may make. What works for one person won't necessarily work for everyone. The point is: the choice is yours to make. And if, for whatever reason, other people refuse to let you make that choice, you will always find someone here willing to listen to you.
Alliance for Separation of School and State
http://www.sepschool.org/
"We believe parents, and not the state, should be in charge of their children's education. That control may take many forms and levels of involvement, but the state will never be part of the picture. If this seems like an impossible idea, consider that 8 million children already learn free of state control. We're not starting from scratch here. The snowball of educational independence is already rolling."
Homeschool Legal Defense Association
http://www.hslda.org/
Home School Legal Defense Association is a nonprofit advocacy organization established to defend and advance the constitutional right of parents to direct the education of their children and to protect family freedoms. Through annual memberships, HSLDA is tens of thousands of families united in service together, providing a strong voice when and where needed.
National Home Education Research Institute
http://nheri.org/
The National Home Education Research Institute's mission is to:
-Produce high-quality research (e.g., statistics, facts, findings) on home-based education (homeschooling)
-Serve as a clearinghouse of research for the public, researchers, homeschoolers, the media, and policy makers
-Educate the public concerning the findings of all research on home education
Unschooling.com
http://unschooling.com/
"We support, defend, promote and encourage unschooling in all its many shapes and forms. We're creating a haven for unschooling families, a place to find answers, to meet friends, to discover resources, to read affirming essays when one needs uplifting. We welcome your suggestions and ideas, and we celebrate your family's unschooling adventures!"
Home Education Magazine
http://www.homeedmag.com/
Home Education Magazine provides focused and extensive coverage of homeschooling and the issues of importance and concern to homeschooling families, advocates, and supporters. HEM has also been turned to as a source of information about homeschooling by legislators, educators, researchers, and the media. Since 1984, Home Education Magazine has brought homeschooling parents the most timely articles, in-depth interviews, and regular columns about the issues homeschoolers deal with; and the joys of a family life that homeschooling makes so easy.
Peter Gray
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/freedom-learn
Peter Gray is a research professor of psychology at Boston College. He has conducted and published research in comparative, evolutionary, developmental, and educational psychology; published articles on innovative teaching methods and alternative approaches to education; and is author of Psychology (Worth Publishers), an introductory college textbook now in its 6th edition. He did his undergraduate study at Columbia University and earned a Ph.D. in biological sciences at Rockefeller University. His current writing focuses primarily on the life-long value of play.
Grace Llewellyn
www.gracellewellyn.com/
Grace Llewellyn is an American educator, author, and publisher. Her work in the fields of youth liberation, unschooling and homeschooling is widely-regarded. She is the founder of Lowry House Publishers and founder/director of Not Back To School Camp.
Jonathan Taylor Gatto
www.johntaylorgatto.com/
As a prolific writer, Gatto has shared many thoughts on the problems of schooling and how they can be remedied. Some of the most important points he makes are:
-Compulsory education harms students
-People learn from authentic experiences and choices
-The family and the community are essential to a child’s development
(source: selfmadescholar.com)