Alexander Khost is a father and children's rights advocate. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Tipping Points and founder of Voice of the Children, promoting and facilitating art and activism for young people. He is also Vice President of Friends of the Modern School, supporting the history of anarchistic education, and he works at the homeschooling coop, Brooklyn Apple Academy.
He previously founded the Teddy McArdle Free School, a democratic free school in New Jersey, and more recently he co-founded play:groundNYC, a junkyard playground for children on Governors Island in New York City.
2022-02-11The Real Schedule and the Shadow Schedule
People often ask me “how do kids learn math?” But they’re missing the better question of how children learn at all…
2022-01-19Bribe Children and Call Them Stinky
Rebellion in Self-Directed Education
2021-11-20All Learning is Self-Directed
Due to the unique nature of each individual, all real learning, no matter what the setting, is individualized and Self-Directed.
2021-10-19Seeding Liberated Futures — Antonio Buehler
“We’re not trying to hack the system in our unschooling – we’re trying to burn it down.”
2021-10-18Unschooling As An Act of Resistance
A video and transcript from The SDE Weekend discussing unschooling as an act of resistance against white supremacy, racial/gender stereotypes, ableism, and other forms oppression that centered marginalized voices.
2021-10-10The Teenage Liberation Handbook
An excerpt from the new 30th Anniversary edition.
2021-09-22Learning: Lost and Found
Learning that’s lost in school can be found in many ways, if it needs to be found at all.
2021-09-19But What is Unschooling? A Question from My Mother.
After years of having conversation with my mom about unschooling she still doesn’t seem to get it. This article is an attempt to explain it to her and anyone else struggling with the concept of unschooling.
2021-09-13The School System is Suffering, Let it Die!
An excerpt from the latest Youth Liberation Now zine by Filler Distro.
2021-09-09Yes, It’s Lord of the Flies Around Here
Talking to others about SDE is frequently frustrating, due to their misconceptions which they often do not wish to challenge.
2021-08-05From Farm to Unschooling the Parent
Through regular visits to a friend’s farm with my pre-school age kids, I learn how self-directed learning about parenting profoundly shapes their learning.
2021-07-11Peter Gray Book Launch
Q&As with Peter Gray on his books published by Tipping Points Press.
2021-06-18“Hurry Up” and the Rush Through Childhood
When we hurry our children through their days, are we inadvertently asking them to rush through their childhoods?
2021-06-13Rooted
A poem about being uprooted.
2021-05-19The First Prison
Every hierarchy, every abuse, every act of domination that seeks to justify or excuse itself appeals through analogy to the rule of adults over children. We are all indoctrinated from birth in ways of “because I said so.”
2021-04-30The Great Surfer
A tribute to childhood.
2021-04-26They Played Their Hand, and We Have to Say, “We’re Not Going Back”
What did the coronavirus crisis teach us about education in the US? That we have all the resources we need when we want them.
2021-04-13Becoming Yourself: Neurodiversity and Self-Directed Education
Self-Directed Education enables us to take very different educational pathways with our children which particularly suits those who do not fit the mainstream mould.
2021-04-05Deschooling
Deschooling is so much more than moving into unschooling: it is our opportunity to give each other time and space to take back our freedom, to foster lost relationships, values and connections, and to reimagine what our own life, our community and society at large could look like.
2021-04-01Eilish Grammys Make Greenberg Reconsider Unschooling
Sudbury Valley School co-founder apologizes to unschoolers, admits to being Billie Eilish groupie.