Our January-February, 2008 issue will mark the beginning of our 25th year of publishing Home Education Magazine. A quarter of a century! A couple of years ago I started writing a history of how we started the magazine, and those posts can still be found in the blog archive, under the category History of Homeschooling. [...]
This in-depth post by our news editor, Valerie Moon, explains why many knowledgeable long-time activists in the homeschooling community have been shaking their heads in disgust over the recent Washington Times op-ed piece by HSLDA President J. Michael Smith, supposedly honoring Dr. Raymond Moore for his considerable lifetime achievements. It grieves many of us to [...]
This is only a little off-topic, since this blog is supported by a magazine whose publishers are grappling with ever-increasing postal rates. This postal rate hike is a concern because postal regulators have accepted a proposal from media giant Time Warner that would stifle small and independent publishers in America. The plan unfairly burdens smaller [...]
Almost a year ago, in October of 2006, homeschooler Rebecca Ward, of Beaverton, Oregon, became the new world champion of women’s sabre at the World Fencing Championships in Italy. At the age of 16, she became the youngest fencing world champion and became the first fencer in history to hold the cadet, junior and senior [...]
Our old friend and ex-HEM blogger Daryl Cobranchi gave me a heads-up on this opinion piece by USA Today founder Al Neuharth, who writes: “My concern about our educational system is for those who aren’t part of it — these home-schooled: * An estimated 1.7 million to 2.5 million will be taught at home by [...]
Our good friend Patrick Farenga has been an activist and an advocate for homeschooling for over 25 years. When the reknowned author and educator John Holt died, it was Patrick who picked up the reins of Holt’s newsletter, Growing Without Schooling, and kept it in print for many more years. Patrick has been an outspoken [...]
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Our News & Commentary editor, Valerie Bonham Moon, is a master blogger, and she has an entire collection of them on which she shares her keen perspective and her razor-sharp wit. For me, Valerie is the very definition of the word pundit. My favorite Valerie-blog is Happy as Kings, and maybe I just like it [...]
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Our long-time friend Jan Hunt, whose interview (by Mary Nix) appeared in our July/August issue, wrote recently to tell me they’ve added more bumper stickers to their selection, including these: • Ask me about unschooling! • If it matters to a child, it’s important! • Life is the school – love is the lesson. • [...]
Susan Ryan’s Corn and Oil blog always gives me something to think about. On July 4th she posted some interesting comments about the history of our nation: “As we munched on popcorn and cherries, we talked about the history of the 4th of July. And John Adams and Thomas Jefferson’s relationship and death on one [...]
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With great sadness I note the passing of an old friend, Dr. Raymond Moore, one of the true founding pioneers of the homeschooling movement. He was the co-author, with his wife Dorothy, of the very first book I ever read on homeschooling, Home Grown Kids. I have many wonderful memories of Dr. and Mrs. Moore, [...]
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