Event: Join Peter at the 2012 Rethinking Everything Conference

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Event: Join Peter at the 2012 Rethinking Everything Conference

By Peter Kowalke, 02/26/2012, 11:58 pm

We're happy to announce that Unschooler.com again will be sponsoring this year's Rethinking Everything Conference, which takes place Aug 30 through Sept 4, 2012 in Dallas. Peter Kowalke, Unschooler.com editor-in-chief, will be speaking on "The Seven Challenges Unschoolers Face...

#21: Faking Teen Pregnancy

By Peter Kowalke, 02/24/2012, 12:24 pm

Today our show has two parts. In part one, we talk with grown unschooler Jeff Landale about his college thesis on the history of homeschooling. In part two, we chat with Gaby Rodriguez, the 18-year-old from Toppenish, Wash. who made international headlines when she announced...

DIY College Course

By Jessica Barker, 01/20/2012, 7:18 pm

The ability to customize your learning experience is both liberating and intimidating. One way to do this is to design your own college course or "Unit Study." When it comes down to buckling down and learning something specific, conceiving a well-rounded course of study is...

Grown Unschooler Needs Help with Research Study

By Jessica Barker, 01/16/2012, 2:45 am

Attention autodidacts: Erin Katherine Johnson, a lifelong learner herself, is a graduate student at Goddard College in Vermont getting her MA in Education-Individualized Studies. And she needs your help with her thesis project!

For my graduate thesis project I desire to collect personal stories about...
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“I would not have gone to college.”

By Jessica Barker, 01/11/2012, 3:00 pm

Over the past couple of years, I have befriended an interesting fellow named Brian Fritz. We met at a local contra dance and get together every so often to reflect on life and the universe. Brian is 31 and has always struck me as a...

What do I ultimately want from college?

By Jessica Barker, 12/06/2011, 6:12 am

James loved literature. The "Great Books" were his passion and he was even learning Latin and Greek so as to broaden and enhance what he could bury his nose in. At 19-years-old he had his own apartment and was working as a waiter to support...

Crashing College Classes

By Jessica Barker, 11/29/2011, 11:18 am

College classes are hugely resourceful. Whether "Going the College Way" is right for you or not, a lot of knowledge can be gained just from listening to one lecture, interacting with peers interested in and studying the same subjects as you, and having knowledgeable, resourceful...

Is College Right for Me?

By Jessica Barker, 11/12/2011, 2:20 am

As homeschoolers, we are used to questioning all things. It's a privilege; if we had gone to school, we would really have to work on it. When it comes to the question of college, however, we have to work on it even still. Somehow, college...

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