Global Village Voice

We like to let you know the kind of things our homeschooling families are doing.  This time around we have a young K8 homeschool student who is very interested in our natural heritage.

National Public Lands Day is the nation’s largest hands-on volunteer effort to improve and enhance the public lands Americans enjoy.  As part of this mission they have solicited videos that answer the question “How Do You Love Your Favorite Public Land?”

Avalon, a GVS 4th grade homeschool student, narrated a video for Camp Bayou and this video is a finalist in the National Public Lands Day contest.  Please check it out and if you like it, sign into YouTube and vote by clicking the thumbs up icon.

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Our friends over at 3StoryFilms have released the first trailer for their upcoming homeschooling documentary entitled “Class Dismissed: Education and the Rise of Homeschooling in America.”  Please check it out!

3Story Films Trailer

Posted under Activism, Current Events, Education, Homeschooling, Resources

3StoryFilms is working on a documentary about homeschooling, focusing on the wide cross-section of families utilizing the homeschool model, answering frequently asked questions, and challenging the prevailing myths that surround discussions about homeschooling.  Keep tabs on them here:

http://www.3storyfilms.com/

Posted under Current Events, Education, Homeschooling

This is an interesting look at a particular type of alternative education that can be adapted to fit an unschooling, homeschooling or distance learning family.

Free to Learn is a 70 minute documentary that offers a “fly on the wall” perspective of the daily happenings at The Free School in Albany, New York. Like many of today’s radical and democratic schools, The Free School expects children to decide for themselves how to spend their days.

You can watch the whole documentary online here: http://www.educationrevolution.org/freetolearn.html

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At an age when most students are finishing college and considering graduate school, Alex Pyron will receive his Ph.D. in Biology. In addition, the 22-year-old Georgia native, whose field is evolutionary biology, has already been working as an NSF Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at SUNY–Stony Brook (he qualified for his Ph.D. last fall when he was 21) and recently accepted a faculty position at George Washington University.

How did this happen so fast?

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