WAKE FOREST, North Carolina -- Laura Matthews is a wife and mother of two. When it came time to send her daughters Adi and Emily to school, Matthews found herself dissatisfied with North Carolina ...

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.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scroll through TikTok or Instagram and you’ll likely come across families documenting their “unschooling” lives — children ...

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 ...

Key Points Unschooling is an educational trend that allows kids to choose the topics they'd like to learn, and their own method of learning, whether its through art, outdoor play, or other ...

Janay Reece came back home to Baltimore to join WJZ in August 2023. Before coming back to the Charm City, Janay was a morning anchor and reporter for WDBJ7 in Roanoke, VA. She joined the WDBJ7 morning ...

Fin and Rye Hewitt are boys on a mission. On a cool afternoon in late summer, the two boys tear across the 40 rolling, green acres in Cabot that they call home — on bicycle, by foot, at a run and ...

Is a child who spends the day watching videos or playing in the backyard actually learning? Yes, say advocates of the "unschooling" movement. Maleka Diggs, founder of Eclectic Learning Network, a ...

This past fall, Gina Riley and I conducted a survey of 232 “unschooling” families who have children older than 5 years. This is the last in a series of three reports on that survey. In the first ...

Scroll through TikTok or Instagram and you’ll likely come across families documenting their “unschooling” lives — children learning through nature walks instead of textbooks, kitchen experiments ...