In an article for the Austin, Texas newspaper, Austin-American Statesman, titled What Makes Home Schooling Work?, special contributors Dieter and Debra Schlaepfer, who live in Rohnert Park, California, write: In general, government officials, education bureaucrats, and teacher’s union advocates do not know what makes home schooling work. Two of their most common misconceptions are...
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What Makes Homeschooling Work?
Education Begins at Home
From Voice of America’s News USA, an article titled Education Begins at Home in Many US Households and subtitled Homeschooling has broadened to include parents of all faiths: Before 1918, when Mississippi became the last U.S. state to require that school-age children attend public or private schools, many children were taught by their parents...
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Homeschooling in Texas
From KYTX in Tyler, Texas: Homeschooling on the rise in Texas: Some parents are taking it upon themselves to ensure their children get a good education, which is why Texas is seeing an increase in homeschooling. New research says the percentage of kids homeschooled jumped 75 percent in the past eight years Continue reading...
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‘Race to the Top’ Fallout?
Holly Craw, the Phoenix, Arizona Homeschooling Examiner, asks a question we’re hearing more and more often these days in her article Arizona loses out on Race to the Top Funds: Is this a new opportunity to strengthen homeschooling? A couple of excerpts: The Arizona homeschool community may need to gear up for an increase...
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Homeschooling Trendy?
Huffington Post blogger Kate Fridkis writes about the New York Style Magazine article on upscale New York homeschool cooperatives: The New York Times Style Magazine piece about the trendy Brooklyn homeschoolers, “School’s In,” both did and didn’t remind me of my own pre-college education. My family called it unschooling, because we didn’t have any...
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Homeschooling & Public Schooling
An interesting and enlightening article on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s website, StLToday.com, titled Adventures in Public Schooling, Homeschooling, and Living in Both Worlds by Sharon Autenrieth: Twelve years ago my husband and I had dinner with friends. They were homeschooling their youngest child, then in fifth grade, and at some point in the evening...
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Lessons from Children
As her always-homeschooled children enter public school for the first time, Andromeda Romano-Lax, an Alaskan writer, author of The Spanish Bow and more than 10 travel and natural history books, shares her perspective on lessons she learned while homeschooling her children. Andromeda’s post is at 49 Writers, a blog for Alaskan authors: They were...
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Would You Homeschool?
ParentDish, a new weblog launched by AOL and dedicated to parenting, asks Would You Homeschool Your Kids? and the lengthy comments are as interesting as the well-written pro and con commentaries about homeschooling, penned by Amy Hatch and Crystal Paine.
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- HEM wrote a new post, Bryn Athyn College - How to get into college?, on the site Taking a Closer LookHEM wrote a new post, Bryn Athyn College - How to get into college?, on the site Taking a Closer Look Great place for students schooled at home. It's Not Just About You! A Bryn Athyn college education isn't just about you. It's about your potential to make an impact. Here, you'll be encouraged to define your […] […]
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- James Burns – Stop the bully’s EBOOKJames Burns – Stop the bully’s EBOOKInstant Download! Stop The Bullying EBOOK This book provides practical methods of teaching respect, encouraging student responsibility, and building compliance. This ebook also contains a supplemental character education section with techniques for praising students and encouraging more positive classroom behavior. It is d […]
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- Home Training Tools – Science for at home schoolsHome Training Tools – Science for at home schoolsHome Science Tools is a resource for parents, teachers, and kids who want a better experience with hands-on science. Frank and Debbie Schaner started the company in 1994, when they realized how difficult it was to find the right supplies for doing science at home with their four children. Since then, they’ve b […]
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- Staying InformedStaying 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 un […]
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School’s In
In an article for the New York Style magazine, an article titled School’s In explores the trendsetting approaches to homeschooling being taken by Brooklyn hipster parents (including fashion photographers, a cinematographer, a dancer-choreographer and a sculptor among them) when the local schools didn’t quite pass muster. …is this a school, or artists trying to...
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