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Classroom design is the subject du jour?

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A Nov. 11th L.A. Times article for L.A. at Home, which seems to focus on architecture and design for southern California homeowners, carried the cutsy title, “For home-school parents, classroom design is the subject du jour.” The first part of the article does, in fact, focus on parents with a severe yearning to replicate...
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My Parents Were Home-Schooling Anarchists

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The venerable New York Times Magazine published an article on November 8, 2011 titled My Parents Were Home-Schooling Anarchists, by Margaret Heidenry: “Tired of the constraints of the 40-hour workweek, my father, in 1972, quit his job in publishing. My parents were in their early 30s, and they had four children under 7. ‘But...
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Unschooling: Hacking an Education

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After just a few months of college – in which he enrolled after spending his middle and high school years unschooling – Dale J. Stephens, 19, left school. Based on his conviction that college is not necessary for success and fulfillment, he founded an organization called UnCollege, which promotes ways that young people can...
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Baltimore, MD Homeschool Article

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Too Cool For Homeschool? (Here’s what you didn’t know), by Melanie O’Brien, shares the activities of families involved with the Baltimore Homeschool Community Center, described as “…bright and friendly, full of laughing kids and smiling adults.” The member-based organization serves homeschooling families throughout the Baltimore area. O’Brien writes: “But wait a second. Why are...
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Homeschool Regulation

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Homeschool Regulation

According to this news report from New Jersey: “Assemblywoman Valerie Vainieri Huttle will introduce legislation to regulate the home schooling of children. This comes on the heels of a recent investigation by the State Department Of Children And Families into the tragic may death of eight-year old Christiana Glenn of Irvington. “Christiana died of...
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State Tax Credits

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The New York Times opinion pages for January 5 includes arguments for and against the idea of state tax credits for homeschoolers, which is being promoted as a priority as the the newest Republicans in Congress seek to challenge the federal role in American public education, with an eye toward turning more power over...
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Ever Thought of Homeschooling?

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Channel 15, an ABC affiliate out of Phoenix, Arizona, featured a piece with reporter Allison Dugaw interviewing two homeschooling moms in Ever thought of homeschooling your kids? 2 moms share their experience: PHOENIX – Several studies show that homeschooling kids may benefit some children later in life. But a lot of parents don’t really...
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Carnival: The Tryptophan Edition

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Carnival: The Tryptophan Edition

Check out this week’s Carnival of Homeschooling: The Tryptophan Edition at Apollos Academy: “There are wonderful holiday-themed lesson plans, imaginative plans for common subjects, and just some wonderful families enjoying life and their homeschooling journeys by kicking up their heels and taking advantage of this sometimes chaotic time of year to try something new...
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The Unschooled Life

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“Look at people like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison. They all dropped out of school.” The Unschooled Life is an interview with bOING bOING’s Mark Frauenfelder, by Ted Balaker, from the November 2010 issue of Reason magazine. bOING bOING is a small technology-culture magazine that eventually evolved into one of the Web’s most...
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Homeschool Regulation?

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Psychology Today blogger Laura Brodie follows up: “Last week I posted an article with a deliberately provocative title: Should Homeschooling Parents Have College Degrees? I didn’t offer my own answer; instead I invited readers to share their thoughts on what, if any, level of education might be required by each state—a bachelor’s degree, a...
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  • Save your kids! Student Loan Consolidation Fix
    Student loan consolidation is a major problem in our society today.  Several years ago one of our writers wrote a good article about teaching your kids how to manage their money and make a budget.  Please take a look at this great family oriented article about smart money management. http://homeedmag.com/home-education-magazine/stop-student-loan-consolidatio […]

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  • Intrinsic Motivations for Learning
    “As homeschoolers we need to find ways to reach out to teachers and parents who don’t want to see childrens’ 12 years of compulsory schooling reduced to skills training for big business. Nurturing the human capacity to learn through love and intrinsic motivation is as important to life — to me, more important — as ‘learning for earning.’ Art, religion, music […]

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  • Class Dismissed
    Class Dismissed is a new movie in production which is questioning whether schools, public or private, are really the best education option for many families, and it will be the first feature-length documentary to focus on homeschooling. From the website: “From home study and kitchen table math, to perpetual recess and park days, Class Dismissed follows the s […]

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  • Everyday Mysteries
    Who invented electric Christmas lights? The Library of Congress sponsors the fascinating Everyday Mysteries collection: Did you ever wonder why a camel has a hump? If you can really tell the weather by listening to the chirp of a cricket? Or why our joints make popping sounds? These questions deal with everyday phenomena that we often take for granted, but e […]

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  • Staying Informed
    The issues facing homeschoolers today are fundamentally the same as 30 years ago when HEM was first published. While communication is easier the underlying social question is, can parents be trusted with their kids? Our political positions will support this answer in the affirmative. But this is not always the case nor is it always easy to understand the bes […]