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Alternative Schooling Styles : Groupings and Rankings

Comparisons of the Different Styles

These rankings are just a general guide. Different implementations by parents, teachers, and students will move styles within and between these categories. I provide them here merely to help you narrow your choices more quickly.

Styles in the lists are in alphabetical order.

Best used in private schools

  • Free Schools
  • Foxfire
  • Mae Carden
  • Marva Collins
  • Montessori
  • Waldorf

    Best used while home schooling

  • Charlotte Mason
  • Custom Schooling
  • Unschooling

    Works well in either place

  • Conventional
  • Classical
  • Classical Christian
  • Great Books
  • Religious and Cultural

    Uses "Classic" elements

  • Charlotte Mason
  • Classical
  • Classical Christian
  • Great Books
  • Mae Carden
  • Marva Collins
  • Waldorf

    More "traditional"

  • Classical
  • Classical Christian
  • Conventional
  • Friends Schools
  • Great Books
  • Mae Carden
  • Marva Collins
  • Religious and Cultural

    More "progressive"

  • Charlotte Mason
  • Foxfire
  • Free Schools
  • Montessori
  • Waldorf
  • Unschooling

    Encourages Christian worldview

  • Charlotte Mason
  • Classical Christian
  • Friends Schools
  • Marva Collins
  • Religious and Cultural

    Foreign language required

  • Charlotte Mason
  • Classical
  • Classical Christian
  • Mae Carden
  • Waldorf

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