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Documentary Redefines ‘Success’ for Homeschoolers in Common Core Age

In a Common Core world where education is driven by college and career readiness mandates, incessant testing, and social and emotional learning, one independent filmmaker tackles the education establishment in a new documentary, Self-Taught, which zeroes in on how home school kids turn out, explores what defines “success,” and bucks the narrative pounded into parents’ heads that children cannot thrive outside the conventional institutionalized school system.

In this Aug. 24, 2012 photo, Elizabeth Boggs works with her sons Nathan, right, and Luke,