A new coinage has entered the ever-expanding lexicon of alternative education over the last few years: unschooling. Unschooling might best be defined as home schooling without the school. It eschews ...

Janay Reece came back home to Baltimore to join WJZ in August 2023. Before coming back to the Charm City, Janay was a morning anchor and reporter for WDBJ7 in Roanoke, VA. She joined the WDBJ7 morning ...

ST. CLOUD — For Mandy Spiczka and her 10-year-old daughter Zoe, there's no such thing as summer vacation. Sure, it's summertime, and yes, they're on vacation — but education is still afoot. "Today we ...

In early October, our family spent the better part of week at what I jokingly called a "temporary commune" in Phoenix, Arizona. More technically, we went to the Free to Be Unschooling Conference, an ...

SUMMERVILLE, S.C. (WCIV) - When it comes to education in the James household, there is neither structure nor curriculum. Each child only learns what they seek. "Every night when we put them to bed, ...

It’s that time of year again, when kids are filling their new “Frozen” backpacks with fresh pencils and Fruit Roll-Ups. But for unschoolers, this time of year is no different than January or June. For ...

Have you heard about unschooling? Unlike homeschooling, which you’ve probably heard of, unschooling is a life-long parenting and educational approach that centers on how children learn best. Also ...

If we were to start from scratch, how would we create the best possible learning environment for our children? Would we organize children in neat rows of uncomfortable desks and chairs, segregated by ...

This is the last in a series of four posts concerning a survey, conducted recently by Gina Riley and me, of 75 adults (age 18 to 49, median age 24) who were “unschooled” during much or all of what ...