The Information Age Requires A Return To Old Principles

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

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...

Bastiat Free University - self directed learning for visionaries

Bastiat Free University is developing a place for you to learn. Starting before kindergarten, college degrees are marketed as a way to get a better job, more income, or a promotion. Bureaucrats selling meal tickets to future bureaucrats. But college...

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?...

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...

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...

Lenses that are new to the School Choice group.

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Featured Lenses With Learning Content

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...

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...

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 perhaps the greatest economist of the last century:   "The great virtue of a free market system is that it does not care what...

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...

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. I have...

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Time For Your Opinions

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.

Renegade-Dream-Builder 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 Posted February 08, 2008

Evelyn_Saenz Nice lens! Please come check out www.squidoo.com/BeginningReaders for lots of hands-on teaching ideas. Posted November 07, 2007

KarenHS2 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. Posted August 09, 2007

M_Umphrey 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 Posted July 15, 2007

serendipityrose 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. Posted July 06, 2007

Margaret_Schaut 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. Posted December 15, 2006