Todayshow.com is featuring homeschooling in a weeklong web-only series of articles. The coverage has been showing different aspects of homeschooling, and portraying past stereotypes and stigmas as fading away as homeschooling goes increasingly mainstream.
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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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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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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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Author Laura Brodie Profiled
In an article for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, descriptively titled Home schooling as a respite rather than a retreat from public schools, reporter Maureen Downey explains how Laura Brodie, author of the popular book Love in a Time of Homeschooling, never intended to embrace homeschooling full-time, calling herself a public school parent who chose to...
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Sir Ken Returns to TED Talks
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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Texas Statistics Again
An editorial in the May 13 Houston Chronicle revisits the article earlier this week: Is home-schooling among Texas high school kids growing by leaps and bounds? The numbers look fishy, and we’re suspicious that really, something ugly is happening. According to the Texas Education Agency, more than 22,620 high school students stopped showing up...
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Texas Push-outs
Push-outs are a serious issue for homeschooling, but school officials being caught so blatantly cheating on the stats is just such sweet irony: Experts: Home-schooling doesn’t add up across Texas. More than 22,620 Texas secondary students who stopped showing up for class in 2008 were excluded from the state’s dropout statistics because administrators said...
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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 […]
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- 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 […]
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- 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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