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Unschooling and Microschools What’s actually being tried at · LearnOPEN

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Updated May 25, 2026 · 17 resources

What's being tried, and what's working

Unschooling - John Holt - An excerpt from the documentary Class Dismissed

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S2E225: The Rise of Alternative Schooling Options (Pt 2)

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Is It Possible to Determine the Effects of the Microschool Sector on Students? A Cautionary Tale

Does Homeschooling 'Work'? A Critique of the Empirical Claims and Agenda of Advocacy Organizations

The Prima Facie Case Against Homeschooling

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Deschooling Society

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Unschooling - John Holt - An excerpt from the documentary Class Dismissed

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S2E225: The Rise of Alternative Schooling Options (Pt 2)

451: Meredith Olson — Better Education Now

Long-form for going deeper

Articles & essays

The Philosophy of Unschooling, A New Way Of Learning

Inside the Microschool Movement

Schools Before One-Room Schools: Dame Schools

How Years of Policy Choices Enabled Microschooling to Thrive in Arizona

A Survey of Grown Unschoolers: Overview of Findings

Is It Possible to Determine the Effects of the Microschool Sector on Students? A Cautionary Tale

Does Homeschooling 'Work'? A Critique of the Empirical Claims and Agenda of Advocacy Organizations

The Prima Facie Case Against Homeschooling

Books

How Children Learn

Deschooling Society

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