Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Recently, I was helping my kindergartener with his school bug project—a task that should have been fun (researching stink bugs!

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s not an educational style; it’s a lifestyle. It may not surprise you to learn the term “unschooling” was coined in the 1970s.

Overwhelming. That’s the word you hear when you ask homeschooling parents about the resources available to them today. The homeschooling and unschooling movements, along with the open-education ...

The days are about to look very different for most parents in a few weeks as schools let out for the summer. But for Christina Franco, 39, summer days in her upstate New York home are no different ...

It’s August and many Michigan parents are in their back-to-school era. In some families, school never stopped for the summer. Their kids don’t plan on stepping foot inside a classroom this year either ...

As preschoolers set foot in their first classroom, who they are and what they know is linked to their home life — exposure to the natural world and interactions with others. And once in school, the ...

Parents who unschool their children are accustomed to defending their decision: To their in-laws, to their spouses, to other parents. And sometimes to themselves. “There's always going to be those ...

When it comes to the trend of unschooling, there's no middle ground. We asked for reader feedback on a story about the unconventional method of homeschooling that allows the child to choose what and ...