Alger Learning Center & Independence High School
Review by Linda Foster

For 25 years, the Alger Learning Center and Independence High School has facilitated student learning through freedom in education. Alger Learning Center & Independence High School is a non-curriculum-based, student-centered school designed to foster self-direction, self-motivation, and self-esteem.

Alger Learning Center & Independence High School is committed to freedom in learning, and it provides through its various program options an educational environment where that freedom may be nurtured and prosper.

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   Oak Meadow School
by Michael Leppert

One of the original homeschool curriculum creators is also the premier K-12 distance-learning school for homeschoolers all over the globe. Oak Meadow is a well-known name to any “veteran” homeschooling family, having begun providing creative curriculum products and distance learning instruction in the late 1970s.

Lawrence Williams and his late wife, Bonnie, began Oak Meadow as a day school in Ojai, California in 1975. Lawrence had a B.S. in Marketing and an M.A. in Elementary Education and had been influenced by the Waldorf educational philosophy during a visit to Switzerland in the early 1970s. At Oak Meadow School, he taught his own children, as well as children of a small group of local families, using his own Waldorf-inspired philosophy of holistic teaching. 

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