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Schooling: The hidden agenda (a speech by Daniel Quinn) (2 Comments)Posted in: Site Updates by SoulRiser @ 10:32 AM

New article added to the articles section: Schooling: The hidden agenda. It's a speech Daniel Quinn (author of Ishmael) gave at a home-schooling/unschooling conference.
For those of you with short attention spans, here are some snippets I found interesting. I've even bolded some parts so if you have very SEVERE attention span issues, you can just [...]

January 19, 2010:

The Public School Nightmare: Why fix a system designed to destroy individual thought? (No Comments)Posted in: Site Updates by SoulRiser @ 6:05 PM

Added new article by John Taylor Gatto, called "The Public School Nightmare: Why fix a system designed to destroy individual thought?" Click here to read it. I personally think it's one of the best articles I've ever read about public schooling.

January 17, 2010:

List of online schools updated (No Comments)Posted in: Site Updates by SoulRiser @ 6:34 PM

I updated the list of online schools in the US.
New states added (these were not listed at all before):

Alaska
Delaware
Maryland
New Jersey
New York
North Dakota
Virginia
West Virginia

New online schools added to these states:

Arizona
California
Hawaii
Illinois
Kansas
Michigan
Minnesota
Missouri
Nevada
North Carolina
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennysylvania
South Carolina
Utah
Washington D.C.
Wisconsin

January 2, 2010:

List of online high schools in the US (No Comments)Posted in: Site Updates by SoulRiser @ 10:39 PM

I made a list of all the online schools in the US that I know of. (more info on online schooling)
Click on a state to see a list of online high schools (virtual schools) available in that state, as well as a link to each one's website:

New Feature: Homework Search (No Comments)Posted in: Site Updates by SoulRiser @ 7:38 PM

I've added a search engine (powered by Google) that will search encyclopedia sites, book summaries, essays, books, images and more... all at the same time.
Homework Search - Try it out... I can make it search any site that Google can search, so feel free to suggest sites to add.

December 28, 2009:

Alternative Education in Germany (1 Comment)Posted in: Site Updates by SoulRiser @ 7:07 PM

I've added more info to the Alternative Education in Germany page on the wiki. Most of it was taken and auto-translated from the German Wikipedia using Google Translate - so some of the English isn't very good. I don't really have time to fix that, so I just left it as-is. I'm going to do [...]

July 1, 2009:

Article by Dr. Robert Epstein (No Comments)Posted in: Site Updates by SoulRiser @ 4:05 PM

It's called Let's abolish high school, and it's in the articles section. Go check it out. Also, all site updates will be posted on the blog from now on. :)
Robert Epstein is a former editor in chief of Psychology Today, a contributing editor for Scientific American Mind, a visiting scholar at the University of California, [...]

January 6, 2009:

How to make a resume (No Comments)Posted in: Site Updates by SoulRiser @ 12:00 AM

Happy new year :) Ayliana wrote a guide on how to write a good resume or CV, especially if you have no college experience. Also created a new section for it, about Alternative Jobs & Income Sources... so that means there will be more stuff added in there eventually.[link]

September 3, 2008:

SS Blog (No Comments)Posted in: Site Updates by SoulRiser @ 12:00 AM

I haven't been posting updates much lately, because School Survival has a new-ish blog. I've been posting everything new on there (including the news). You can use the links on the top right side of each page to subscribe to it, or you can just click here and follow the instructions. :)[link]

July 11, 2008:

Alternatives section expanded - 10 new articles (No Comments)Posted in: Site Updates by SoulRiser @ 12:00 AM

The alternatives section has been divided into categories: homeschooling & unschooling, online schooling, dropping out/GED, and charter schools. Each of those have 3 new articles in them (except charter schools, which only has one so far). Eventually the alternatives section will (hopefully) contain info about anything anyone would ever want to know about alternatives to [...]

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