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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Parental Qualifications
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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Homeschooling is Changing
Laura Brodie, Ph.D., author of Love in a Time of Homeschooling, writes a parenting column for Psychology Today with the same title, and subtitled ‘Insights from my uncommon year educating my daughter at home.’ In her March 17 post, ‘Short-term Homeschooling: Why Bother?’ she gives a fairly balanced overview of the now 30+ year...
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Testing, Testing….
Laura Brodie, an English professor who taught her daughter at home for a year and wrote about it in her new book Love in a Time of Homeschooling, writes a parenting column for Psychology Today and invites reader feedback to the testing question in her May 14 post, titled Standardized Testing and the Flight...
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Kiddie Sabbaticals?
Jay Matthews writes in the Washington Post: “When it gets too bad, a family may pull a child out of school to let everyone calm down and see whether another approach can be found. The pause in schooling doesn’t usually last long. The student reads on his or her own for a while —...
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Short-term Homeschooling: Why Bother?
Psychology Today blogger, Laura Brodie, decided to give her daughter a break from the school routine: Many lifelong homeschoolers will wince at the thought of short-term ventures. For them, homeschooling is a way of life, not a year off. The potential benefits of home education (strong family ties, increased academic achievement) develop gradually over...
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Homeschool Regulation?
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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