Mothering magazine’s web site has a good article by Becky Jackson titled No Time for Teaching: Spontaneous Learning at Home: “In the four years I spent pursuing an education degree, I learned a lot about what to teach and how to teach it. Then I spent four years as a full-time mother. I would...
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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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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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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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Writer Sara Schmidt very thoughtfully examines unschooling in a multi-part article introduced here: Lately, there has been a surge of questions, comments, and in many cases, diatribes against unschooling. Most of these have been spawned from two very brief, very biased (in many peoples’ opinions), news-oriented television programs–not from actual research completed on unschooling...
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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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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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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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A human interest story from NorthJersey.com about a movie in the making: “It was lights, camera and a lot of action on a residential Ridgewood street and at Ridgewood High School last week as movie crews swooped in to film a short movie starring Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber. “The movie, titled ‘Homeschooled,’ is...
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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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