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A Survey of Grown Unschoolers I: Overview of Findings
Children Educate Themselves I: Outline of Some of the Evidence (2008)
Children Educate Themselves IV: Lessons from Sudbury Valley
Children Teach Themselves to Read
Children today are suffering a severe deficit of play
Coronavirus is providing the course correction kids desperately needed
Declining Student Resilience
Differences Between Self-Directed and Progressive Education
Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant and Better Students for Life (2013)
Freedom to Learn
Hierarchy, Freedom and Learning
How Children Learn Bravery in an Age of Overprotection
How do Unschoolers Turn Out?
How Does School Wound? Kirsten Olson Has Counted Some Ways
How to Play Our Way to a Better Democracy
Is Real Educational Reform Possible? If So, How?
Is Too Little Play Hurting Our Kids?
Learning Requires Freedom: Introduction to a New Blog about Play, Curiosity, and Education
Mother Nature's Pedagogy: Insights from Evolutionary Psychology
Peter Gray - Self-Directed Learning Fundamentals (xlnt)
Peter Gray: Education is Much More Than What is Taught in School
Play Makes Us Human (Substack)
Play Makes Us Human V: Why Hunter-Gatherers' Work is Play
Psychology (International Edition Sixth)
Restoring Childhood: How to Set Kids Free in the Age of Anxiety (2026)
Restoring Children’s Play: Overcoming Parental Fears
Risky Play Encourages Resilience
Rousseau’s Errors: They Persist Today in Educational Theory
School is a prison — and damaging our kids
Schools don’t have to fail: Here’s how we fix education
Schools Often Cause Pathologies in Children
Seven Principles of Learning to Read Without Schooling (xlnt)
The Benefits of Unschooling: Report I from a Survey of 231 Families
The Challenges and Benefits of Unschooling, According to 232 Families Who Have Chosen that Route (2013)
The decline of play (2014)
The Play Deficit
Trustful, Autonomy-Supportive (TAS) Parenting
We've Pervaded the Myth that Education Is Cumulative. It Isn't.
We’ve turned childhood into a period of résumé building.
Why Evolutionary Psychologists Argue Unstructured Play Must Move Online
Why We Should Stop Segregating Children by Age: Part I