Posts Tagged ‘ home education ’

Assessing Normalcy?

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Debbie Harbeson ponders some questions about labeling children in her post, Homeschooling as a Method of Child-Proofing, on her Freedom and Fun blog: “I’ve recently discovered Peter Gray’s Freedom to Learn Blog and I enjoy reading his perspective on learning. His most recent post, ADHD and School: The Problem of Assessing Normalcy in an...
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Why Aren’t You Homeschooling?

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In an editorial titled Why aren’t you homeschooling?, Jim Willson, who writes for the Hernando, Mississippi DeSoto Times-Tribune, began with this pronouncement: “Do you truly know what schools are teaching your children? If I wagered a guess, 9 out of 10 parents do not. The only sure way to know is to educate your...
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Strengthening Rights?

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In an article for the July 8th issue of Education Week titled Conservative Candidates Take Aim at Federal K-12 Role, Alyson Klein writes: The conservative currents roiling the 2010 midterm election season bring with them a new group of Republican congressional candidates who are outspoken about their desire for a limited federal role in...
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Sweden Bans Homeschooling

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Sweden Bans Homeschooling

Pat Farenga explained the situation in his June 28th post: Sweden Bans Homeschooling: What would Pippi Longstocking say?, subtitled ‘Educational Freedom Takes Another Hit: Sweden makes homeschooling illegal’: “Our homeschooling friends in Sweden have suffered a major blow: On June 22, 2010 the Swedish Parliament effectively wiped-out the ability of families to choose homeschooling...
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A Tough Job?

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The Peace Corps had already coined the phrase, ”The toughest job you’ll ever love,” otherwise it might have become the rallying slogan of those known as home-schoolers. The practice of home schooling, of course, long predates the K-12 system and even the one-room school-house. After many quiet decades, home-schooling quietly resurfaced in the 1970s...
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Homeschool Growth in Colorado

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More than 4,000 people will converge on Denver this weekend. They are attending the 27th annual conference of the Christian Home Educators of Colorado. “We provide resources, vision, workshops, talks; we have keynote speakers,” Mike Chapa, executive director of CHEC, said. “The home school movement is growing across this land and there’s estimates that...
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Too Young for College?

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Anastasia Megan, a 13-year-old Florida girl who has nearly completed her high-school curriculum via homeschooling, tried to take dual-enrollment courses at Lake-Sumter Community College last year. She was denied entry, however, by administrators who thought she was not ready to sit alongside older students in the classroom. The Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights...
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No Tests, No Books, No Bedtime

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ABC News has an article about Joe and Dayna Martin’s approach to unschooling titled Unschooling: No Tests, No Books, No Bedtime, in which the reporter seems somewhat aghast at the concept: “They live as though school doesn’t exist. They’re at home all day, but they’re not being homeschooled. They’re being “unschooled.” There are no...
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Sir Ken Returns to TED Talks

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Why don’t we get the best out of people? In one of the most popular TED Talks ever presented, Sir Ken Robinson argues that it’s because we’ve been educated to become good workers, rather than creative thinkers. “We are educating people out of their creativity,” Robinson says. It’s a message with deep resonance. Now,...
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Linda Dobson’s Seeking Input

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Linda Dobson, HEM’s long-running columnist for “The Road Less Travelled” and the administator of Parent at the Helm (PATH), writes: “I’ve been invited to do an hour radio call-in talk show next month. I don’t know anything about it except that it’s well-syndicated and, well, they asked me to talk about homeschooling. I never...
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    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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