‘Unschooling’ gaining popularity, allows children alternative learning tools


School's never out for 14-year-old Zoe Bentley. Nor is it ever in, reports the Huffington Post. The perky teen from Tucson, Ariz., explores what she likes, when she likes as deeply as she chooses every day of the year. As an "unschooler," Zoe is untethered from the demands of traditional, compulsory education. That means, at the moment, she's checking out the redwoods of California with her family, tinkering with her website and looking forward to making her next video on her favorite subject, exogeology, the study of geology on other planets…

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