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Scarleteen
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Scarleteen

Scarleteen is one of our top choices for Sex Ed. It was created by Heather Corinna. For an engaging and informative material that also provides various resources including interactive services and mentoring for young individuals, we recommend Scarleteen to provide safe and appropriate educating on sex and health. "Scarleteen was created out of an expressed need from young people themselves... based on what young people asked for, through existing experience in alternative education, writing, social justice activism, health and sexuality”

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Teach Your Own: John Holt
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Teach Your Own: John Holt

Teach Your Own: John Holt is one of our top choices for Best books to get started. It was created by John Holt. John Holt's classic book "Teach Your Own" is perfect for parents who wish to learn more about best practices for homeschooling, the philosophy behind it, and its contrast with public education. Holt was the father of the Unschooling philosophy, an important movement in the history of homeschooling, focusing on learning through natural experiences that children themselves seek to explore.

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Free to Learn
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Free to Learn

Free to Learn is one of our top choices for Best books to get started. It was created by Peter Gray. Psychologist Peter Gray demonstrates that free play is the primary means by which children learn to control their lives, solve problems, get along with peers, and become emotionally resilient, unlike traditional schooling. Peter Gray is a development psychologist and believes that there are more effective to encourage childhood education without the constraints of modern-day schooling.

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Dumbing us Down
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Dumbing us Down

Dumbing us Down is one of our top choices for Best books to get started . It was created by John Taylor Gatto. This book is for teachers and parents - learn how the watered down traditional school system is diminishing our educational outputs and how we can instead become self-directed lifetime-learners. The author was a teacher in New York for 30 years before setting out to unveil the truths of broken system of mandatory schooling, and instead wants parents to embrace learning with self-direction.

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Art History from homeschooling 2e
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Art History from homeschooling 2e

Art History from homeschooling 2e is one of our top choices for Art history. It was created by Mary. The lesson they recommend for this subject is the Art History Curriculum package because students engage into different art that keeps them engaged. It is designed to initiate students into the life of art with a fun perspective. Mary is the creator of homeschooling 2e. She was homeschooled when she was younger and was inspired to do the same for her 3 children. She created the resource to allow gifted students & students with learning disabilities to learn from this platform

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Self Directed Education: Nonprofit advocating self-directed education
Kaylee Wong Kaylee Wong

Self Directed Education: Nonprofit advocating self-directed education

Self Directed Education is one of our top choices for Core Curriculum for autistic children/children on the spectrum . This is a nonprofit that advocates for self-directed education and provides resources for its community. This organization began from a movement whose underlying principle is the human rights of students.

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Unschooled: Great overview of unschooling
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Unschooled: Great overview of unschooling

Unschooled is one of our top choices for Best books to get started. It was created by Kerry McDonald. Unschooled by Kerry McDonald provides an excellent overview of the unschooling, or self-directed education, movement, illustrating the need to move past the public school model, and providing pointers for how to get started with your own children. Kerry McDonald has an M.Ed. degree in education policy from Harvard University and is a Senior Education Fellow at the Foundation for Economic Education. She writes about education at Whole Family Learning (http://www.wholefamilylearning.com).

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