Unschooling Rules · 55 Ways to Unlearn What We Know About Schools and Rediscover Education

While most schools continue to resist change, homeschooling families have abandoned the K-12 system and identified new, powerful, commonsense methods and goals for childhood education. p

Education expert Clark Aldrich has explored the practices of homeschoolers and unschoolers (those who eschew the structure or curricula of schools) and distilled a list of 55 rules, like the following, that are changing both the way children are taught and our vision for schools.br

\- Learn to be; learn to do; learn to know.br

\- Tests don t work. Get over it. Move on. br

\- What a person learns in a classroom is how to be a person in a classroom.br

\- Animals are better than books about animals.br

\- Internships, apprenticeships, and interesting jobs beat term papers, textbooks, and tests.br

\- The only sustainable answer to the global education challenge is a diversity of approaches. p

This accessible book provides you with a path forward, whether you re a parent or teacher, a school administrator, or a national policy decision maker.