A couple more articles on the continued growth of homeschooling: • Georgia: Homeschooling a growing trend From doctors and dentists to teachers, many professions are represented among the parents who homeschool children. For parents who own a business, homeschooling allows children to help out with the business while still receiving an education, she said....
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Growth of Homeschooling
Homeschool Numbers On The Rise
According to an article on the news blog for Channel 9 News in Chattanooga, Tennessee: Home schooling has increased in popularity across the country and here in Chattanooga. NewsChannel 9 hit the hallways for the first day of Hamilton County schools this week, and now we want to go to where home schooled students...
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Homeschool Buzz
HomeSchoolBuzz.com is a project of the Davis family of Western New York, a Christian home schooling family with three boys. Originally, their simple idea was to provide stories of homeschooling in the news to encourage, inspire and inform. As time went on, they added family friendly reviews, book shopping and buzz from other homeschooling...
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Academic Anticipation
An article titled Academic anticipation: Children, moms still get excited about new year even when school means staying at home appears in the August 3rd edition of the Ashland, Ohio Times-Gazette: For Megan Abel, and for most grade-schoolers, starting school after summer break means new notebooks, new subject matter and a new routine. But...
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Turning Points
Thirty-five visionary educators were asked: What was your schooling like? When did you realize that there is a need for an alternative approach? What have you done since to help realize that vision? What are you doing now? Turning Points: 35 Visionaries in Education Tell Their Own Stories, edited by Jerry Mintz & Carlo...
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Parental Qualifications
Psychology Today blogger and author Laura Brodie poses a thorny question: Should Homeschooling Parents Have College Degrees? The subtitle: You’ve got a GED. Are you ready to homeschool? An excerpt: “To me, the idea that parents with GEDs could, if they desired, turn around and teach high school to their children is setting the...
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Interview: Helen Hegener
Helen Hegener, co-founder of Home Education Magazine, is the interviewed guest on the unique podcast and family resource, VickyandJen.com, which is about “making life simple so you can enjoy what really matters.” On the show Helen answers most of the typical questions: What is homeschooling? Why do parents choose to do it? Is it...
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National Charter School Watch
The National Charter School Watch discussion group (NCSW) is assessing the state of things six years after its founding by homeschooling mom Annette Jurczak in June, 2004. The group’s description explains in part: We welcome those seeking information about charter school issues in their states and nationally, as well as those sharing information about...
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- Save your kids! Student Loan Consolidation FixStudent 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 […]
News & Commentary
- Class DismissedClass 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 […]
HEM Resources
- Everyday MysteriesWho 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 […]
HEM Groups
- Staying InformedThe 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 […]
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A Lawsuit from Mimi
Heather Idoni, a homeschooling mother, originator of HomeschoolingBOYS and owner of Beloved Books (home of the Sugar Creek Gang audio series), is a speaker on homeschooling topics at conferences and curriculum fairs. Heather edits The Homeschooler’s Notebook, and also manages EasyFunSchool as well as several other websites and homeschooling email groups. Heather has also...
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