College Without High School

Informationen zum Autor Blake Boles has worked extensively with teens outside the traditional high school environment. He designs and leads innovative trips through Unschool Adventures. He has worked in a variety of fields, and holds a self-designed BA in education theory from the University of California at Berkeley. He lives in Portland, OR Klappentext Let's begin this book with a bold proposition: You're in high school, and it bores you to tears. ... an antidote to the over-scheduled, grade-driven, and sadly uncreative existence of most high-schoolers today . -- Daniel H. Pink , author of A Whole New Mind and The Adventures Of Johnny Bunko If you believe, as I do, that our time on earth is a grand gift not to be squandered, then buy this book for all the teenagers you love . -- Grace Llewellyn , author of The Teenage Liberation Handbook ... concrete understanding and useful suggestions for Self Directed Learners of all ages, in or out of school. -- Cafi Cohen , author of And What About College What would you do if you could go to college without going to high school? travel abroad? spend late nights writing a novel? volunteer in an emergency room? build your own company? College Without High School explains how independent teenagers can leave high school to pursue life-changing, confidence-building adventures-and still gain admission to competitive 4-year colleges and universities. Featuring stories from real-life, college-admitted "unschoolers" and concrete advice on how to demonstrate the five preparatory results required for college admission --intellectual passion, leadership, logical reasoning, background knowledge, and the capacity for structured learning-- College Without High School offers a world of opportunity to teens frustrated by traditional schooling. A fresh new voice on the school scene. You won't regret spending time with this book . -- John Taylor Gatto, author of Dumbing Us Down , The Underground History of American Education and Weapons of Mass Instruction Blake Boles switched from an astrophysics major at UC Berkeley to graduate cum laude with a degree in Alternative Schooling. He is founder and trip leader of Unschool Adventures, which offers innovative trips to teenage unschoolers. He lives in Portland, Oregon. Visit the book's website at CollegeWithoutHighSchool.com Vorwort This book will be promoted on-line through facebook, homeschooling and youth adventure networks. This book will be advertised in Life Learning, Back Home, Practical Homeschooling, Communities, Youthink Review copies - between 100-150 review copies sent out to highly targeted list, including author requests, our "hit list" and appropriate media Author pitched as guest speakers at NSP-attended conferences, where appropriate Zusammenfassung Shows how independent teens can self-design their high school education by becoming unschooled. This guidebook also shows how to fulfill college admission requirements by proving five preparatory results: intellectual passion, leadership, logical reasoning, background knowledge, and the capacity for structured learning. Inhaltsverzeichnis Premises and Promises Through the Macroscope Launch Sequence A Note for Parents Chapter 1: Redefining Teen The Point Of Life Is Not School, It Is Adventure Bored People Become Boring People Homeschooling and Unschooling Unschoolers in History But First: What Do You Want? The Question of College Dream Map Prep The Dream-Mapping Wo...

Vorwort

• This book will be promoted on-line through facebook, homeschooling and youth adventure networks.
• This book will be advertised in Life Learning, Back Home, Practical Homeschooling, Communities, Youthink
• Review copies - between 100-150 review copies sent out to highly targeted list, including author requests, our "hit list" and appropriate media
• Author pitched as guest speakers at NSP-attended conferences, where appropriate

Klappentext

Let's begin this book with a bold proposition: You're in high school, and it bores you to tears.

... an antidote to the over-scheduled, grade-driven, and sadly uncreative existence of most high-schoolers today .
-- Daniel H. Pink , author of A Whole New Mind and The Adventures Of Johnny Bunko

If you believe, as I do, that our time on earth is a grand gift not to be squandered, then buy this book for all the teenagers you love .
-- Grace Llewellyn , author of The Teenage Liberation Handbook

... concrete understanding and useful suggestions for Self Directed Learners of all ages, in or out of school.
-- Cafi Cohen , author of And What About College

What would you do if you could go to college without going to high school?

• travel abroad?
• spend late nights writing a novel?
• volunteer in an emergency room?

• build your own company? College Without High School explains how independent teenagers can leave high school to pursue life-changing, confidence-building adventures-and still gain admission to competitive 4-year colleges and universities.

  Featuring stories from real-life, college-admitted "unschoolers" and concrete advice on how to demonstrate the five preparatory results required for college admission --intellectual passion, leadership, logical reasoning, background knowledge, and the capacity for structured learning-- College Without High School offers a world of opportunity to teens frustrated by traditional schooling.

  A fresh new voice on the school scene. You won't regret spending time with this book .
  -- John Taylor Gatto, author of Dumbing Us Down , The Underground History of American Education and Weapons of Mass Instruction

  Blake Boles switched from an astrophysics major at UC Berkeley to graduate cum laude with a degree in Alternative Schooling. He is founder and trip leader of Unschool Adventures, which offers innovative trips to teenage unschoolers. He lives in Portland, Oregon. Visit the book's website at CollegeWithoutHighSchool.com

Zusammenfassung
Shows how independent teens can self-design their high school education by becoming unschooled. This guidebook also shows how to fulfill college admission requirements by proving five preparatory results: intellectual passion, leadership, logical reasoning, background knowledge, and the capacity for structured learning.

Inhalt

**Premises and Promises
Through the Macroscope
Launch Sequence
A Note for Parents

Chapter 1: Redefining Teen
The Point Of Life Is Not School, It Is Adventure
Bored People Become Boring People
Homeschooling and Unschooling
Unschoolers in History
But First: What Do You Want?
The Question of College
Dream Map Prep
The Dream-Mapping Workshop
Create a Dream Book

Chapter 2: College Prep Without School
Results Over Volume
The Changing Face of College Admissions
Some Who Have Done It
CP = (Results)
CP Result 1: Intellectual Passion
CP Result 2: Leadership
CP Result 3: Logical Reasoning
CP Result 4: Structured Learning
CP Result 5: Background Knowledge
Case Studies: MIT, Stanford and the University of California at Riverside
Diplomas, Transcripts and Transfers
Research Admission Requirements at Your Target Colleges

Chapter 3: The Six-Hour School Week
Time Management for Unschoolers
Schoolwork vs. Interest Work
The Six-Hour School Week
The Art of Batching
A Batching Example: Gia and the FCT
Conquering the Unbatchables

Chapter 4: The Adventure Blender
Ideas for High-Impact Adventure
Internships
International Volunteering
Hunting Down Heroes and Experts
Business Start-Up
Community Skill Mastery

Chapter 5: Making the Leap
Final Notes on the Unschooling Decision
Defining the Dropout Nightmare
Meet Gra…