Posts Tagged ‘ homeschooling parents ’

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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Parental Qualifications

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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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Homeschool activists

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The following articles spotlight homeschooling parents who are active in their communities, and beyond. WLNS, Lansing, Michigan, 13 July 2006, Questions Raised About School Board Member Home Schooling Children While Day will be making decisions she hopes will lead to change, her young kids don’t actually attend the district’s schools. Day has been home...
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Where does the educational buck stop?

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A few years ago the ‘national homeschooling discussion’ expanded from being mostly about academics or socialization, to that of ‘ethical servility,’ and the civic responsibility of homeschooling parents. The main proponents of the view that homeschooled children are not able to differentiate themselves from their parents’ viewpoints were two academics, Rob Reich, and Michael...
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Back to school

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For the past few weeks I’ve been reading through the September haul of back-to-’home school’ articles, and have been depressed because the articles are all much the same. Was there anything really blog-worthy about a single article? Was there anything really very different about any of the articles? No matter which part of the...
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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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  • 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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    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 […]