I absolutely love the unschooling community and that approach to raising and educating children. However, I think this is a misnomer in many instances and a bet

I absolutely love the unschooling community and that approach to raising and educating children. However, I think this is a misnomer in many instances and a better word to describe a specific type of learning as necessary. As I understand it unschooling mostly applies to an approach that heavily emphasizes self-directed learning. In other cases, uschooling is a broad word which ranges from families who have no structure to their children's education to ones who have a full schedule with lots of academics. Modular Learning is an educational movement of parents who want greater flexibility, but also a rigorous and challenging education for their children which their composing through modules (tutors, learning apps, classes, skill shares) Modular learning doesn't preclude going to school either. In many cases, Modular learners go to school but complement that with afterschool activities, apps and tutors. The studies you refer to also show that families who use pure unschooling do mostly the same , but those with some structure do better academically. It's hard to really give credit to these studies because they apply to such a small sample of kids whose families are actively involved in their learning. More research is definitely needed.