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From Distrust to Kinship (opens the original)
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America, a country founded on self-government, is facing an increase in declining trust not just for the people running their government, but also mistrusting their fellow citizens. The Pew Research Center (2025) found thatFewer than half of Americans (44%) now say they can trust all or most of the people in their neighborhood, down from 52% a decade ago. And only around a third say most people can be trusted – also down around 10 points over the past 10 years.But in more recent years, the decli
North Star: Self-Directed Learning for Teens (opens the original)
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I look forward to joining Ken and others at North Star on Sunday, Sept. 13, from 1 to 4 pm, to celebrate their 30 years of providing an alternative to school for teens and for their unwavering support for homeschooling. Here’s a lightly edited transcript of a conversation we had about North Star.<div class="imag
The Farmer Who Challenged the Machinery of Modernity (opens the original)
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Wendell Berry, a farmer, writer, and advocate for an active, localized citizenry in an increasingly centralized, consumer-oriented world, died on Monday. Growing up in Bronx, NY and attending a conventional college, I never heard of Berry until John Holt suggested his books to me in 1981. Once I read Berry’s poems and essays I understood how his simple eloquence and deep thoughts correspond with the ideas of Holt, Illich, and other critics of “progress towards the future.” Holt used mass educati
Going For A Day (opens the original)
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Gail Nagasako (HI) sent us a copy of an article she wrote for a local newsletter, Home’s Cool Gazette:This past March, Thumper (13) went on a field trip to school, his first time ever in school. He has been unschooled all his life, with bodyboarding and rollerblading his main activities and with abundant field trips and lots of unplanned learning, mostly prompted by his own questions or by what happened around us. This last year he chose to focus on academics, especially polishing his grammar an
Enrolling to Play on the Basketball Team (opens the original)
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As a new school year approaches I want to share some first-hand experiences from homeschoolers who decided to try school. I start this two-part series with a mother’s description of how her son decided to try school when he was 14 due to his interest in basketball. She summarizes her interactions with school personnel and their common answer to her questions about their school’s practices: “The conversations I’ve had with every one of these professional educators—from principals to office secret
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