To many, learning at schools is like eating food from the frozen section of a supermarket. What appears to be sustaining, convenient, and diverse is really over-processed, expensive, and homogeneous.It's not surprising why. Schools today are stuck in a rut. Few question that in so many schools: children en masse get dropped off, where they become the recipient of linear "teaching" and tests. They go home, do homework, and start over again the next day, for the goal of preparing them for the next level of school and meeting broad and dubiously defined standards.But the landscape is getting some diversity. A growing number of home and unschoolers are questioning the assumptions of industrial education. They are striving to evolve new approaches, not as politicians or board members grinding through the Sisyphean task of getting a few policies changed, but by abandoning the model and starting over.Perhaps the hardest part of this revolution, however, is parents realizing how ingrained the traditional school habits are. Home and unschoolers have to adopt the best practices of schools, while leaving behind ineffective legacy processes and industrial conceits, and then fill in the gaps. This book is the result of research to identify and frame the guidelines that these home and unschoolers are uncovering in childhood education. It is a book that not only home and unschooling parents will find invaluable, but anyone involved in today's industrial education model, including parents of traditionally schooled children, teachers and administrators, and policy makers. The insights it provides change the discussions around childhood education.