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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.




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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.

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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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