Cappy

I have decided to take the next step in my interest in and advocacy for unschooling. I am putting together a website that I hope will serve as a resource for people interested in unschooling, those completely new to the idea, and families currently unschooling their own. The site will house an unschooling reading list, along with reviews, steady updates on education and unschooling news, resources for unschoolers, and posts/stories/tips from unschoolers throughout the blogosphere.

There are unschoolers all over the web and I hope to make their own experiences easily available. There is constant news on education, providing ever more evidence against the efficacy of compulsory education, and I hope to make those stories known from a single source. And there are writers and speakers making incredible strides in the fight to bring an end to compulsory schooling, and I hope to help keep their works in the foreground. But far and away the most important goal is to create more unschoolers! To give more kids the opportunity that most of us never had: to run their own educations and follow their own interests, to become the people they are instead of the people school boards want them to be.

Currently I am collecting resources, blog feeds, twitter follows, book lists and the like in order to get the site off the ground. Design services will provided by the uncanny Cristian Popa of ReasonWeekly.com. If you know of any resources, blogs, books or articles I should check out, please let me know! Until then you can follow my progress at http://twitter.com/UnschoolJournal

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