Susan Ryan at the Corn & Oil blog is upbeat about an article on homeschooling titled Grooming the Next Generation of Leaders. Good quotes: “We have greater opportunities as homeschoolers to dance to the beat of our own drums,” Alyssa said, adding, “The only downside is that we can never just watch a movie...
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This week’s Carnival of Homeschooling, at The Homespun Life blog, features some great articles, covering a variety of subjects, including lifestyle, faith, and classical music, and beginning with the founder of the Homeschool Carnival, Henry Cate from ‘Why Homeschool’.
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“Look at people like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison. They all dropped out of school.” The Unschooled Life is an interview with bOING bOING’s Mark Frauenfelder, by Ted Balaker, from the November 2010 issue of Reason magazine. bOING bOING is a small technology-culture magazine that eventually evolved into one of the Web’s most...
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It has taken ten years for fact to overcome perception but as of August two important issues for Homeschool Families have been clarified. This year’s revision of the “Federal Student Aid Handbook: Vol. 2010-2011″ can be accessed on line. In the first volume, chapter one, home school students are stated as eligible for FSA...
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While not specifically about homeschooling, an article by Brian Gresko, a stay-at-home dad and writer, explains his view that childhood is under attack by the very people who should be protecting it: parents. His article In Defense of Childhood: Let Kids Be Kids! explains: Many of the most important skills are untestable — imagination,...
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The Air Force Times features an article on homeschooling by staff writer Jon R. Anderson, titled the ABCs of Home Schooling: Experts estimate there are 2 million home-schoolers, with their numbers growing as much as 12 percent annually in recent years. And there is data to indicate that military families are home schooling at...
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In an article title The Homeschool Movement’s German Lesson Joy Pavelski reports in The American, the Journal of the American Enterprise Institute, on the German homeschooling family which moved to the U.S.: On January 26, a Tennessee judge granted political asylum to Uwe and Hannelore Romeike and their five children, three years after German...
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A good roundup post of mainstream news articles by Amy Wilson on the VA Homeschoolers site, titled Positive Press for Homeschooling: It seems that the back-to-school season has inspired some recent media coverage of homeschooling. “Not everyone is going back to school” is the basic theme that VaHomeschoolers has noticed, accompanied by a human-interest...
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The Mississippi homeschooling family of Robert and Debra Shinn is facing every homeschooler’s – no, every family’s – nightmare. In a post aptly titled When Hell Came to Our Home the homeschool blogger mom known as Lioness writes “a story that gets scarier and more bizarre the further along it goes.” She implores readers,...
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Homeschooling Goes Mainstream
Recently two homeschool advocates were guests on the Kojo Nnamdo radio show titled “Homeschooling Goes Mainstream.” The discussion centered on the history of homeschooling and the diversity of the greater homeschooling community. The guests were Celeste Land, Director of Government Affairs for the Organization of Virginia Homeschoolers, and a member of the board of...
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