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California homeschooling programs
I understand that homeschooling and home education are both misnomers to a degree. My own kids got as much ‘schooling‘ outside the house as they did at home. I understand that […]

Home-school parents balk at state plan, 13 May 2008, Anchorage Daily News, Anchorage, Alaska

The state … wants to bring uniformity to a disparate field, according to education officials. State finance director […]

 What defines at home schooling?
It is hard to tell whether the reporter characterized the Idaho IDEA program as homeschooling, or if someone else had the idea.

Idaho Distance Education Academy, 27 April 2008, […]

Daytime curfew details become public this week, 4 September 2007, Waco Tribune Herald, Waco, Texas

Although the school year began without it, a daytime curfew designed to keep students off Waco streets during […]

AHTD agrees to install stop light at Colt, 9 November 2007, Times-Herald – Forrest City, Arkansas

Council members also heard second readings of an ordinance to outlaw the burning of tires inside of city limits, […]

Austin City Council evaluates juvenile curfew, 18 June 2008, Austin American-Statesman, Austin, Texas

The citywide daytime curfew, meant to keep students in school between 9 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. on weekdays when […]

One part of the daytime curfew situation perplexes me: why is it needed when school is in session, but not during the summer?

School zones, curfew also return Monday, 24 August 2008, Greenville Herald-Banner, […]

Carl Welser: Kohlrabi, education and bullying, 21 April 2008, Livingston Daily, Livingston, Michigan

Herewith consist the abridged minutes of the regular April meeting of the Hamburg Kohlrabi Grower’s […]

Phat Mommy has it, and her theme is Galactic Adventures.

The 32nd CoH is posted at Sprittibee’s, and the topic is The Wild, Wild West.   Yeeehawwww!

Sprittibee

After glancing at the posts, I’ve already learned something new: I live in the West, not the Midwest.  […]

Spunky takes on KidTrax, and the subject of outsourcing the raising of children is something we should pay attention to.

The idea that villages should raise kids instead of families raising them has a track […]

It’s the 34th Carnival of Homeschooling:

Pollywog Creek Porch

See you later, alligator!

This week’s Carnival of Homeschooling is hosted by the makers of the Category Five blog.  The subject of the main post is the weather conditions endured by the Cherokee Indians on the Trail of Tears.  The […]

Whether or not the article has anything to do with homeschooling, if the word appears in the text, it gets caught in the cyber-sweep of what’s online. The following blog article was posted concerning how there […]

Ron, at Atypical Homeschool, has a link up to another cartoon (possibly) taking a jab at homeschooling.  I agree with him that it’s hard to tell.

The Buckets, 31 August 2006

I’d have just linked to the blog post […]

The Carnival of Homeschooling is up at The Thinking Mother.

Carnival of Homeschooling Week 38: The Five W’s and One H

“The “Five Ws” (and one H) were memorialized by Rudyard Kipling in his “Just So Stories” […]

PalmTree Pundit has a beautiful 39th Carnival of Homeschooling.

Autumn Edition

Homefires has an article by Diane Flynn Keith, of Universal Preschool and Carschooling, about homeschoolers and money.

Homefires, Millbrae, California, What Is It With Homeschoolers & Money?

Is it the […]

I’m late getting out the weekly Carnival of Homeschooling, and hey!, it’s gone retro!

HomeSchoolBuzz.com, Carnival of Homeschooling 40 Goes Retro

Believe it or not, it’s the 40th Carnival of Homeschooling! That’s […]

This week’s host is the NerdFamily.

The 41st Carnival of Homeschooling