Posts Tagged ‘ homeschooling ’

Homeschooling in Maryland

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An article in the Frederick News-Post, from Frederick, Maryland, titled Students go to head of the class with homeschooling: If there is a common myth or misconception about homeschooling, it’s that people believe homeschooled children are being educated in a vacuum. “I wish people would stop asking me about socialization,” she said. “My answer...
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Homeschooling in Michigan

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An article in the Detroit Free Press online, also appearing in the print version, titled More resources and support help metro homeschoolers go mainstream, profiles homeschooling families in Michigan: “Michigan doesn’t have an accurate count of the number of its homeschooled students. The state stopped requiring parents to register with a school district in...
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Boat Schooling

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Boat Schooling

Boat Schooling, by Ruth Berkowitz. Another great article about a sailing homeschooling family: Before kids, in 1998 my then fiancé and now husband Tim and I met a family sailing with three children all under the age of 11. They were sailing their boat, Margarita from Washington State to Mexico, Pitcairn Island and beyond....
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Growth of Homeschooling

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A couple more articles on the continued growth of homeschooling: • Georgia: Homeschooling a growing trend From doctors and dentists to teachers, many professions are represented among the parents who homeschool children. For parents who own a business, homeschooling allows children to help out with the business while still receiving an education, she said....
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Free Range Learning

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Free Range Learning

Laura Weldon’s new book, Free Range Learning, received a glowing review in the news-tech magazine Wired’s blog, GeekDad: Free Range Learning by Laura Grace Weldon is a new book about homeschooling. It isn’t a strict how-to, nor is it just about someone else’s personal experience. It’s a mixture of the two, intertwining real families’...
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VA Religious Exemption

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An article in the Northern Virginia Daily titled Religious exemption criticized and subtitled Homeschooling group objects to modified policy, lack of say: FRONT ROYAL — Homeschooling advocates on Thursday appealed to the Warren County School Board to void an amended religious exemption policy approved in July. The School Board voted 4-1 in July to...
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A Lawsuit from Mimi

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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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Illinois Anti-homeschool Agendas

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Susan Ryan at Corn and Oil cautions: “I want to point out again…that the Regional Offices of Education are systematically pushing for daytime curfews in Illinois communities to rein in homeschoolers. It’s all over the state, but quite a few southern Illinois communities in a couple of Regional Offices of Education areas with anti-homeschool...
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NC Homeschools Multiply

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An article on homeschooling’s growth in North Carolina, linked from the front page of the Raliegh, NC News-Observer: The number of home schools has steadily increased across the state since home-schooling became legal in 1985, going from 381 schools that year to nearly 43,316 schools today, according to a recent report released by the...
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Homeschool Buzz

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HomeSchoolBuzz.com is a project of the Davis family of Western New York, a Christian home schooling family with three boys. Originally, their simple idea was to provide stories of homeschooling in the news to encourage, inspire and inform. As time went on, they added family friendly reviews, book shopping and buzz from other homeschooling...
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