homeschooling

Danette Buckley, M.Ed., founded Dream Tech Academy in Hopewell, Virginia.Kerry McDonald Nestled at the end of a residential cul-de-sac in Hopewell, Virginia is Dream Tech Academy, a microschool founded by former public school teacher,…

New Delhi: Homeschooling and other alternative ways of school are all set to be accepted as a formal way of instruction. In the final National Credit Framework (NCrF) report Tuesday, the University Grants Commission (UGC) has recommended a…

Devan Dellenbach runs a rural microschool.Kerry McDonald On a quiet street in the tiny town of Abbyville, Kansas, population 83, lies Re*Wild Family Academy. Founded earlier this year by former Kansas public school teacher Devan Dellenbach,…

Chrystal and Joshua BernardKerry McDonald In early 2020, Chrystal and Joshua Bernard decided that they would begin homeschooling their four young children at the start of the following school year. Their two oldest children were completing…

Since she began homeschooling her children in Louisiana in the early 90s, Joyce Burges has watched the practice explode in popularity among families like hers.“Parents nowadays – this woke generation of 25- to 40-year-old parents – their…

Maria Castaneda pulled her boys out of a charter school for microschooling.Kerry McDonald Tears filled Maria Castaneda’s eyes as she recalled moving her son from a Las Vegas charter school to a microschool in 2020. She explained that in the…

When the former governor of Arizona, Doug Ducey, signed a law last year that lets any family receive public funds for private school or homeschooling, he said he “trusts parents to choose what works best” for their children.Over 46,000…

Michael Parsons at Vandalia Community SchoolKerry McDonald When Michael Parsons envisioned his Montessori-inspired microschool in Charleston, West Virginia earlier this year, he knew that he wanted to create an intentionally small learning…

Molly and Noah StephensonKerry McDonald A common criticism regarding microschools, learning pods, unschooling approaches and other non-traditional educational models is that they don’t work well for, or exclude, neurodiverse learners,…

Iman Alleyne runs Kind Academy in Coral Springs, Florida.Kerry McDonald “Mom, I can’t do it anymore,” said Iman Alleyne’s four-year-old son about his pre-kindergarten program. Plagued by anxiety-induced stomach aches and daily crying…