Posts Tagged ‘ public school ’

Indiana: Regulations Ahead?

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The future of laws and regulations in Indiana In Homeschool regulations ahead? Karen Francisco in The Journal Gazette writes: Indiana State Superintendent Tony Bennett released new non-waiver graduation rates today with a news release that suggests Indiana high schools might be “counseling students out” of public schools and into homeschool. Last week, I blogged...
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Compelled to Attend

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In this first of three posts, titled Compelled to Attend, HEM’s Road Less Travelled columnist, Linda Dobson, is revisiting her first book, The Art of Education: Reclaiming Your Family, Community and Self, published by Home Education Press in 1995. An excerpt: And if colleges and universities ignore the true meaning of education and accept...
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‘Race to the Top’ Fallout?

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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 & Public Schooling

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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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Playing School Sports?

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Playing School Sports?

LEBANON, Ohio — Kelly and April Kamentz would like to see all of their six children play sports on Lebanon schools teams. But the 19-year residents of the district may not get that chance because their children are homeschooled, and like other Warren County schools that have high “partial enrollment” requirements, Lebanon requires student-athletes...
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Author Laura Brodie Profiled

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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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Education Reform?

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Sara McGrath, author of A Lifestyle of Learning, writes for the Seattle-area Unschooling Examiner; a recent post is titled “Seattle education reformer on the negative reality of schools”: Last week, educational theorist and school reformer John Goodlad of the Institute for Educational Inquiry in Seattle featured in the first of three guest articles on...
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Public School Better Than Homeschool?

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From Literacy News, which reports on literacy issues which affect the workplace and education systems, one of those countdown pieces subtitled ’10 reasons why public school is better than homeschool’ starts out with: 1. Most parents were educated in the under funded-public school system, and so are not smart enough to homeschool their own...
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Ritalin or Recess?

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Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center Director Dr. David Katz was among those honored in the October 2009 issue of Children’s Health magazine as one of 25 leaders, experts, advocates, and role models considered to be powerful influences on the lives of our children. In a Huffington Post commentary, Attention Deficit Disorder: Ritalin Or Recess?, Dr....
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Homeschooling to Escape Bullies

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Laura Brodie, author of Love in a Time of Homeschooling, and a blogger for Psychology Today, addressed the question of Bullying as a Reason for Homeschooling in a March 24 post and Mean Girls and Homeschooling Moms on March 31. A follow-up post today, Homeschooling to Escape Bullies: What’s Wrong with That? explores “the...
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