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

by Clark Aldrich

Overview

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.

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.
- Learn to be; learn to do; learn to know.
- Tests don’t work. Get over it. Move on.
- What a person learns in a classroom is how to be a person in a classroom.
- Animals are better than books about animals.
- Internships, apprenticeships, and interesting jobs beat term papers, textbooks, and tests.
- The only sustainable answer to the global education challenge is a diversity of approaches.

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781608321162
Publisher:	Greenleaf Book Group, LLC
Publication date:	02/01/2011
Pages:	168
Sales rank:	397,850
Product dimensions:	4.90(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Clark Aldrich is a global education thought leader, labeled a guru by Fortune Magazine. He works with corporate, military, government, and academic organizations at both the board level and as a hands-on implementer. His projects have been patent winning and earned millions globally. He is the author of four earlier books and scores of articles; is the recipient of numerous industry awards; created dozens of educational simulations (including the most popular leadership simulation in the world); was the founder of Gartner's eLearning coverage; and has a degree in Cognitive Science from Brown University. His work has been featured in hundreds of sources, including CBS, ABC, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, CNN, NPR, CNET, Business 2.0, BusinessWeek, and U.S. News and World Reports.

Table of Contents

Foreward VII

Introduction 1

Part 1 Curricula 5

Part 2 Content 19

Part 3 Coaching 57

Part 4 Customization 81

Part 5 Community 103

Part 6 Credit 113

Part 7 [Day] Care 129

Conclusion 141

Afterword 147

Places to Start 151

Twitter Hash Tags 155

About the Author 157