"No great man of letters is absorbed by the stream in which he swims." - Chaim Potok

School Choice - Which Educational Alternative?

Home school, unschool, experimental colleges, online learning, alternative education - there are a lot of successful options to choose from.

The ending of the industrial age will also spell the end of bureaucratic education. What will replace the huge and entrenched institutions created over the past few centuries?

A reasonable guess would be individual choice combined with cost appropriate education. We are at the start of the educational disintermediation era.



This group emphasizes replacements and alternatives to accepted formal education - sales lists of affiliate colleges will not be accepted. If your lens does not seem to fit with those first featured lenses, it probably won't fit in this group.

The Information Age Requires A Return To Old Principles

Let's rediscover schools that exist to instill and reward a love of learning

Public schools and private schools that emulate them are striving toward inappropriate goals with archaic tools.

There are many alternatives available, from innovative private schools and home schooling to free and open web based tutorials.

Visit the one page lenses in this School Choices Group to find more information.

Featured Lenses About Education

featured lens Bastiat Free University: share the wealth of centuries, comprised of knowledge

  Join Bastiat Free University in developing a love-of-learning platform. Bureaucratic Age, one size fits some education, belongs in the past. Use, support, and expand its replacement -- self tailored learning. Explore natural educational models...

featured lens Changing the Face of Education

Our Education system is not working when compared with other countries around the world. It does not serve its coustomers, the taxpayers, very well. This isseen especially in low-income districts. It is seen in the low test scores and high drop out r...

featured lens Homeschooling High School

This lens is all about homeschooling through high school. Thousands of families just like yours and mine have already successfully homeschooled highschool and so can you! The main prerequisite is simply the desire to do so. Yes, you do have to be tea...

featured lens Home Educators

I am impressed by the selection of educational materials available online. This lens is an overview of some of the most useful resources available. Suggestions are always welcome.  What are your favorite educational books, websites, movies, etc?...

featured lens Alternative Learning Systems & Experimental Education

Public schools perform much worse at edifying students than private or home schools. They are the wrong environment to facilitate learning. The excuse is public schools help students learn social skills - like how to follow orders. Primary and secon...

Lenses that are new to the School Choice group.

Take a look and enjoy the new viewpoints.

Homeschool Basics, Choosing the Right Home School Material, Secular Homeschool, Creating Your Way in the Complicity Universe, Homeschoolers on Squidoo

learning tools discovered and discussed

This is an experimental college's blog. It shares information that can help all of us, and some particulars aimed at its students.

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Featured Lenses With Learning Content

featured lens Alternative Learning Systems & Experimental Education

Public schools perform much worse at edifying students than private or home schools. They are the wrong environment to facilitate learning. The excuse is public schools help students learn social skills - like how to follow orders. Primary and secon...

featured lens Real World Learning

Real World Learning * Already homeschooling? This page will give you resources for making your family's experience richer. * Considering homeschooling? I hope the resources here will help you make the decision. * Know someone who is planning to homesc...

featured lens Amish Community

"Keep out of her, my people, that you do not share in her sins." Quoted by Jesus and taken absolutely literally by the Amish, they seem to be a 'peculiar people.' This peculiar people are very plain, very simple, but not at all stupid. Within the ra...

featured lens How Free Markets Make Our World A Better, Friendlier, and Safer Place

Free markets are equivalent to neighbors trading vegetables for fruit at a garden gate. An insightful quote from one of the greatest economists of the last century:   "The great virtue of a free market system is that it does not care wha...

featured lens Michelangelo's David

The stature and prominence, the importance and influence of Michelangelo's David statue may surprise you! The David statue tells a story, yes, and that story is here.  But the statue has his OWN story to tell, one that not many people know. Here i...

Time For Your Opinions

Anyone that really wants to learn enjoys hearing well reasoned thoughts.

Do you have an idea for a lens but don't want to spend and hour or two building it? Put it here.

If you want to start a lens based on what you read - let us know here. Then go up to the top right of this page and click to start it.

Just a comment with your viewpoint is welcome here as well.

If you support public education I would encourage you to both make a lens and start a group. I'll be glad to give it a friendly link from here if you will do the same from there.

Then folks will have both resources to evaluate their options.

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sudever wrote...

Learning concepts and languages are really what kids need to be taught first and foremost. Once they know how to learn by themselves they will pick up the knowledge they are interested in and will need for their future!

ReplyPosted March 25, 2009

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J-ellen wrote...

Good lens. Please come check out my lens for tutors. Tutoring Techniques

ReplyPosted February 02, 2009

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Renegade-Dream-Builder wrote...

Hooray people that get it. Fancy schools do not make children smarter and we'er proving it everyday. Now whats unfortunate about that is it's not just the childern who are losing here,it's everyone. Keep up the good work this is a great lens.
Gary
The Renegade Dream Builder

ReplyPosted February 08, 2008

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Evelyn_Saenz wrote...

Nice lens! Please come check out www.squidoo.com/BeginningReaders for lots of hands-on teaching ideas.

ReplyPosted November 07, 2007

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KarenHS2 wrote...

Excellent information. The longer I homeschool, the more I experiment with what really works. I agree that our current government school system is a dinosaur that is just creaking along with the help of powerful special interest groups.

ReplyPosted August 09, 2007

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M_Umphrey wrote...

I'm a writer and teacher.

My newest book, The Power of Community-Centered Education: Teaching as a Craft of Place, is forthcoming from Rowman

ReplyPosted July 15, 2007

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serendipityrose wrote...

Great information and great links! I am enjoying your lenses! I'm just getting started on a couple myself. Still have a lot of work to do on them.

ReplyPosted July 06, 2007

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Margaret_Schaut wrote...

Great concept. There was so much experimental education when my kids were going to school, they wouldn't have learned a single basic if I hadn't taught them. Alternatives to public education allow people to fit the education to their kids, or to their own lives.

ReplyPosted December 15, 2006

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