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How do Unschoolers Turn Out?
Jane Mount/MindShift Peter Gray has studied how learning happens without any academic requirements at a democratic school. The Boston College research professor also wrote about the long history and...
View ArticleA Parent’s Message: School Is Choking the Creativity Out of Kids
A recent MindShift article about how “unschoolers” turn out has sparked a lot of debate among readers. Unschooling is a category of homeschooling in which kids have the freedom to direct their learning...
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How Students Lead the Learning Experience at Democratic Schools
Courtesy of Fairhaven School While teaching at Catholic and public schools in the 1990s, Mark McCaig and his wife, Kim, grew increasingly frustrated with the amount of time they were having to devote...
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The Value of Connecting the Dots to Create “Real Learning”
Open Connections students inject shitake mushroom spores into logs. (Courtesy of Peter Bergson) While leading problem-solving and creativity workshops for a company called Synectics in the 1970s,...
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Unexpected Tools That are Influencing the Future of Education
Mia Christopher Some big education issues have been making headlines, including how many and what kind of standardized tests should be used in education, implementation of Common Core State Standards...
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Is School For Everyone? Some Say ‘No’
Several years ago, few people who knew Hannah Noblewolf would have thought that she would turn out to be an outgoing, articulate, self-assured young woman who has successfully completed her first year...
View ArticleCan a Truly Student-Centered Education Be Available to All?
Unschooling is a hotly debated topic on MindShift. This subset of home schooling, which doesn’t use any set curriculum and is instead directed by the child’s interests, is vastly different from...
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