"Some parents are ready to take the big step to move their children from government school and enroll them in private or homeschool — they just need to find out how and where to do so. Many others are considering the idea but are concerned about the cost of private schooling or the difficulty of homeschooling. For some, neither of those solutions seems practical for them. We've pulled together information not only on private and homeschooling, but also on a number of creative alternatives that can help overcome difficulties facing many families."  http://www.sepschool.org

 This network is devoted to those interested in the practical application of Web 2.0 and collaborative technologies in the classroom and in their own professional development. Especially we hope that those who feel they are "beginners" will find this a comfortable place to start being a part of the community dialog and to learn more. Not only is the CLASSROOM 2.0 social network centered on the discussion of the new technologies of the web, but you get to use those very technologies in a safe and non-intimidating way as part of the experience here: social networking (of course), user profiles, forums, blogging, photo and video sharing, and even RSS!  http://classroom20.ning.com/

The Internet and computers have made sharing intellectual property much easier. The tendency among tightly budgeted homeschoolers is to seek as much free material as possible. ...Educators have their own set of unique rules to follow called educational fair use. Much of today's problematic copyright abuse in the educational market is due to misunderstanding of educational fair use. We invite you to explore our section on educational fair use. The information posted there will help you determine what you can and cannot do. http://www.homeschoolcopyright.com/ 
 

Welcome to the improved Earlychildhood NEWS website, your online resource for Teachers and Parents of children, from infants to age 8. In our Featured Content and Article Archive, read articles about child development, developmentally appropriate practice, health and safety, behavior and guidance, assessment, and much more .  http://www.earlychildhoodnews.com/

Education.com is an online resource for parents with kids in preschool through grade 12. On our site you can: Search over 4,000 reference articles from the best and most authoritative sources across the web. From the NYU Child Study Center to the Autism Society of America, Reading is Fundamental to Stanford University School of Education, our Reference Desk brings the best information from the most trusted universities, professional associations, non-profit institutes, and government agencies together in one place.  Browse our online magazine for hundreds of ideas that take learning beyond the classroom and into your family's everyday life. We cover topics across the parental spectrum-- from practicing fractions by baking cookies, to how to deal with ADHD, bullying, to navigating the parent-teacher conference.  Explore virtual neighborhoods where parents with similar interests or challenges connect to trade advice and share their experiences with one another-whether it's about dyslexia or dioramas.http://www.education.com/

This is the web site of the HE-Special-UK mailing list. We are a group of families who Home Educate children with Special Educational Needs. “Home Education” is the UK term for what may be better known as Homeschooling. Our children don't attend school, or in some cases may only attend school part time.  http://www.he-special.org.uk/

Home education, or homeschooling, is a legal alternative to school education in all Australian states. As the name suggests, it involves a parent taking direct responsibility for the education of their children at home. The HEA was formed in April 2001 to promote the practice of homeschooling in Australia and to provide members with benefits which would be difficult to obtain by individuals or smaller groups.http://hea.asn.au/

Homeschool Diner is a place that promotes a sense of homeschool community... that welcomes all members of our diverse group, and allows us to share our opinions and philosophies, but, without diminishing the validity of the choices that other parents have made or the homeschool approaches that they have taken to heart. http://www.homeschooldiner.com/

Whatever your homeschool interest or need, Homeschool Nuts-n-Bolts is your homeschool community to meet those needs.http://www.homeschoolnutsnbolts.com/

Homeschool Share (HSS) is a on-line cooperative effort of several homeschooling moms to provide free but quality literature-based unit studies and resources. http://www.homeschoolshare.com/

Welcome! I’m a freelance writer and Children’s Librarian at the Webster Public Library outside of Rochester, New York. ALA Editions recently published my first book, Helping Homeschoolers in the Library, and this blog represents my continuing efforts to explore the homeschooling world and help my colleagues build good relationships with the families in this growing community of heavy library users.http://homeschoolingandlibraries.wordpress.com/ 
 

Homeschooling Freethinkers supports the international non-religious homeschool community, which includes secular humanist, atheist, agnostic, freethinking, rationalist, and skeptic homeschoolers.  http://www.hsfreethinkers.com/

We are a group of researchers, teachers, graduate students, parents, and others who would like to make education more effective. To achieve this aim we have developed theories, principles, and practices designed to explain, describe, and exemplify our new approach to educating. This website is designed to introduce you to these theories, principles, and practical techniques. We call this new approach Imaginative Education (IE) because engaging students' imaginations in learning, and teachers' imaginations in teaching, seems to us crucial to making knowledge in the curriculum vivid and meaningful to students. Our work is dedicated to showing how this can be done routinely in everyday classrooms and at home. http://www.ierg.net/

The mission of the International Association for Learning Alternatives is to lead, promote and support learning alternatives and choice options. This mission signals our interest in seeing that parents and students have choices of educational programs to meet their needs, interests, learning styles and intelligences. We believe that one-size education program does not fit everyone and that education is best served by having choices for all.  http://learningalternatives.net/

This site is about learning in freedom, taking responsibility for your own learning. It shows you how to use your own initiative in learning, so you can use schools and teachers just when they are helpful to you, and voluntarily chosen by you. There's a specific page on this site to show you how to get started in learning in freedom, and there are plenty of other pages on this site about other subjects. To find a specific page on this Web site, you can keep on reading for more links from this home page, which links to the main pages on this site, or you can use the site map or the search links on the bottom of every page (and on the top of most pages) to help you find what you are looking for. Besides internal links, there are links to more than 1,000 other Web sites on this site's more than forty pages. http://learninfreedom.org/

The Life Without School blog is an on-line publication and blogging community. We homeschool. We unschool. We live our lives without school. For some, Life Without School begins as a conscientious choice that is whole-heartedly embraced. For others, it begins as a quest for second chances and new opportunity http://lifewithoutschool.typepad.com/

MEET ME AT THE CORNER, Virtual Field Trips for Kids, is a dynamic, interactive site, which encourages individual expression and participation through video submissions from children worldwide. Through these video pod casts we hope to create a community of children, who learn the art of self-expression and storytelling through video. http://www.meetmeatthecorner.org/

Parent at the Helm (PATH) is a one-stop source of vital information, news, and commentary for parents and caretakers of school-aged children. and  welcomes homeschoolers, after-schoolers, teachers, parents of the gifted, special needs, unmotivated, bored and stressed, families and everyone who knows parental involvement is essential to educational success and homeschooling success.  http://parentatthehelm.com

These are websites I recommend for learning more about homeschooling, unschooling, and alternatives to conventional learning for all ages. There are so many Internet sites with very complete listings of homeschooling, unschooling, and learning resources for all ages that I feel no need to create another one. However, for those needing information about unschooling and homeschooling, I provide these to help get you started because I am familiar with their work. I'll be adding more to this list over time. If you want to suggest a group or site for inclusion, please email me contact information. - PF http://www.patfarenga.com/Free%20Resources/freeresourcesfor.html

Tantrum space for un-schoolers at radio free school, the weekly radio show by for and about people who eschew factory learning. Open season on all things we might bump up against. http://radiofreeschool.blogspot.com/

Teachers' Domain is an online educational service with two related components -- resource collections and professional development courses -- that help teachers facilitate student learning and advance their own teaching skills.  Teachers' Domain resource collections constitute an extensive digital library of multimedia resources for K-12 teachers and students. http://www.teachersdomain.org/

TeachersFirst is a web resource for K-12 classroom teachers who want useful resources and lesson plans to use with their students. TeachersFirst is a division of Network for Instructional TV, Inc., a not-for-profit learning technologies corporation which works with hundreds of schools throughout the United States. TeachersFirst is a free service; support is provided by corporate underwriters interested in encouraging improvements in the quality of American education.http://www.teachersfirst.com/index.cfm

The Key provides reading material for adults with limited reading skills.  These include adults who have not completed their high school educations, those learning English and those with learning disabilities. http://www.keynews.org/

Welcome to Unschooling in Japan, a site specifically for unschooling families in Japan. Networking and support for all home-based learners will still be found at Homeschooling in Japan, and resource listings will be found at Education in Japan so be sure to check these areas as well. http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~ja8i-brtl/unschooling_index.htm

On WiZiQ, teachers and learners can connect live anywhere in the world from home using our virtual classroom software. Inside the virtual classroom you share an interactive synchronized collaborative environment where you can communicate with each other on one-to-one basis using microphone, chat and share whiteboard (similar to blackboard in the classroom), presentation and documents. http://www.wiziq.com/virtual_classroom.aspx