Unschooling

"Are schools social levelers or do they reinforce the class pyramid by tracking and sorting children from a young age?" asks Astra Taylor in this single from n+1 (Issue 13). In her answer, Taylor blends memoir and educational history in a broad-reaching examination of unusual alternatives to mainstream education in the United States.

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