At Vienna's Pioneers Festival, I had the chance to meet Danielle Fong, a young entrepreneur who just turned 27 and, if her past is any indication, is going do extraordinary things in the coming years.

As concerns over public education increase, more and more parents are pulling their children out of the public school system to homeschool. The number of families who are choosing to home educate is ...

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We decided to homeschool our daughter this year and quickly became overwhelmed with terms like “unschooling” and “deschooling” The more I read, the more confusing it got. Were we going to unschool or ...

Forty years ago, a radical philosopher by the name of Ivan Illich rocked the world of education by suggesting that children’s learning needs would be better served if they were not made to go through ...

A friend has two pictures up in his office. One, an intriguing little abstract. The other, evidently a child?s work, is one familiar from schoolrooms. A house with a pointed roof and two windows, a ...