Posts Tagged ‘ Oregon homeschooling ’

A Tough Job?

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The Peace Corps had already coined the phrase, ”The toughest job you’ll ever love,” otherwise it might have become the rallying slogan of those known as home-schoolers. The practice of home schooling, of course, long predates the K-12 system and even the one-room school-house. After many quiet decades, home-schooling quietly resurfaced in the 1970s...
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Homeschool Numbers

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Interesting article about homeschool numbers and factors in homeschooling, from Oregon: Douglas County boasted 727 homeschoolers last year, according to the Douglas Education Service District, which serves as a checkpoint for families registering each child’s exit from a school district. After a boom several years ago, the number of students in homeschooling locally has...
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Oregon Homeschooling-Don’t Ask Alice

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Home school in the Willamette Valley By Therese ONeill WillametteLive If there remains one way to shock friends and family in an open-minded 21st century society, it is to tell them that you are considering home-schooling your children. Home education is a burdened concept, calling to mind the odd classmate from high school that...
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All-round article by NewsComm commenter

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I thought the name Cynthia Whitfield looked familiar … Tough school year? Check home schooling, 18 June 2008, The Register-Guard, Eugene, Oregon As the school year ends, many parents are thinking ahead to September and a new school year. If all has gone well, most parents...
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Oregon HomeSource still in the news

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Oregon HomeSource still in the news

HomeSource’s link with district still uncertain despite special bill, 27 May 2008, The Register-Guard, Eugene, Oregon At last week’s Eugene School Board meeting, board members seemed divided on whether to continue allowing students to attend HomeSource, a publicly funded private alternative program that offers courses for home-schoolers at its center off Highway 99 North....
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Oregon family and Charlotte Mason curriculum

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Home schooling six sons leads to success, 1 February 2008, Hillsboro Argus, Hillsboro, Oregon The Bergtholds, Jim and Jane, believe their boys get more out of education at home. Jim Bergthold, a former physician, is a part-time researcher at Summit Research. For the past eight years, Jane has managed their home and facilitated studies...
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Bill bails out home schooling program

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Bill bails out home schooling program, 16 July 2007, The Register-Guard, Eugene, Oregon Proponents said the legislation – written hastily in consultation with representatives from the Bethel district, the Oregon Education Association, the Confederation of Oregon School Administrators, the Oregon School Boards Association, the Oregon Department of Education, HomeSource and The Ulum Group, a...
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Oregon homeschoolers still required to test

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Republicans try, fail to force votes on Oregon school bills, 19 June 2007, OregonLive.com, Portland, Oregon Oregon House Republicans on Tuesday tried to force votes on three of their priority education bills, but Democrats turned back their efforts with dispatch. All three issues, however, are expected to resurface as campaign fodder in the run-up...
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Oregon setting out bait

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The Register Guard, Eugene, Oregon, 20 February 2007, Few oppose bill that would help education center “We are going to have parents who decide to home-school their kids no matter what – that’s going to happen,” he said. “The next best thing we do is we try to entice them in by providing a...
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