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  • Making a Stand for the Traditional Classroom

    The first reading of new restriction put forth by the governing board of Gilbert Arizona’s public schools address testing, assessments, record keeping, credits, online courses and involvement in student oganizations for homeschoolers. Board to consider homeschool, online class restrictions by Emily Gersema, The Arizona Republic The Gilbert Public Schools governing board is mulling [...]
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    Posted: December 07, 2009, 11:23pm EST
    by Mark

  • Getting “Homeschooling” Right

    Writing for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Daveen Rae KurutzIn portrays the disctinction between homeschooling and cyber charter schools right. “The advent and success of cyber charter schools has had a huge impact on our students,” said Charles Machesky, superintendent of Uniontown Area School District, where homeschool enrollment dropped by half in five [...]
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    Posted: December 04, 2009, 11:26am EST
    by Mark

  • Education Research

    It is hard to say exactly what the direct effect on homeschooling the current push for more school data will have but the organizational power and money behind the effort says all parents should watch closely. An article published by Education Week gives us a look into the workings and [...]
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    Posted: December 01, 2009, 1:01am EST
    by Mark

  • Homeschoolers and Achievement Tests

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    Dr. Yvonne Fournier answering questions from a homeschooling family which moved to a testing state. Some highlights about the inherent tension between homeschooling and achievement tests: Hassle-Free Homework: Achievement Tests Contribute To America’s Decline By Dr. Yvonne Fournier, U.S. School System Discourages Divergent, Creative Thinkers In a world that begs for divergent thinkers (people [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 11:20am EST
    by Mark

  • Homeschoolers Compete

    Homeschoolers compete in a lot of different kinds of contests: From the Lincoln County Record, Pioche, NV – Established September 12, 1870 Panaca’s Cookie Crumb Trail Contest By Angela Musser The Christmas Tree Ornament Contest for Panaca’s Town Tree is now open to public and home school students. Argus Leader - Sioux Falls, SD Home-school team [...]
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    Posted: November 13, 2009, 1:13pm EST
    by Mark

  • Race to the Top Final Application Released

    Nothing directly impacting homeschoolers yet, but.. But what really? There are powerful forces at play with a vested interest in the institution of education. Couple calls for legislative reform with the common standards initiative, mix it up with the mad dash for the money, and homeschoolers can not afford to ignore [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2009, 12:47pm EST
    by Mark

  • 1st Reading New Iowa Homeschool Rules

    Iowa City Superintendent, Lane Plugge says, “If you want a diploma, you have to go to school here:” [...]
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    Posted: November 10, 2009, 7:14pm EST
    by Mark

  • Making Waves in Academia and Cyberspace

    If you are concerned about homeschooling your kids you can find encouragement in this story from The Ukiah Daily Journal: Mathematics, Meyer Style By Carole Brodsky Ukiahan making waves in academia and cyberspace For the Daily Journal Holiday shoppers can thank Dan Meyer and his Ukiah High instructors for helping them shave precious minutes off [...]
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    Posted: November 10, 2009, 1:33pm EST
    by Mark

  • Race to the Top

    In formal remarks at James C. Wright Middle School in Madison Wisconsin, President Obama outlined the federal government’s 4.3 billion dollar Race to the Top awards. His presentation defined “four challenges that our country has to meet for our children to outcompete workers around the world, for our economy to [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2009, 12:06pm EST
    by Mark

  • Questioning the Wisdom of New, Common Tests

    In a Letter to the editor published online and in print, Maryann Klaus, with 40 years experience as “teacher, principal, and assistant superintendent” questions testing: Why, when all of the research points to gains made by a focus on teaching and learning, formative assessment, teacher collaboration, and strong leadership, is the [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2009, 5:49pm EST
    by Mark

  • Homeschoolers and Texas Drop-out Rate

    This disturbing piece is from May 2001 and re-published yesterday online. Counts don’t add up, by Lucy Hood, Edmund S. Tijerina and Sharon K. Hughes. Some excerpts: To assess the extent of the dropout problem, the newspaper last fall began to track the 1,053 freshmen who enrolled at Holmes in the [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2009, 3:40pm EST
    by Mark

  • Homeschooling Because We Can

    In an article titled If School Is Cool, We Win, Author John Lewis takes us through his family’s first day of the school year through their approach to homeschooling. A few enlightening takes on the usual questions. Why we homeschool: My wife Anne and I have been homeschooling our children for [...]
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    Posted: November 03, 2009, 5:00am EST
    by Mark

  • Mainstream Perception of Homeschoolng

    While homeschoolers will continue to live their lives according to their beliefs and convictions, public perception of homeschooling can make life easy or much harder. With that in mind, NBC’s Housewives series has written homeschooling into their script. From this week’s online summary: Reading, writing and respect: When Juanita lets a swear [...]
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    Posted: November 02, 2009, 2:20pm EST
    by Mark

  • Can Teachers and Homeschoolers be Allies?

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    The compelling argument which high school teacher Christopher L. Doyle makes about kids and freedom suggests so. In an Education Week Commentary, Growing Up Scripted And Losing Freedom Along the Way he suggests that few of his students think they will grow up to lead a free life. After exploring the [...]
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    Posted: October 19, 2009, 8:04pm EDT
    by Mark

  • Common Core Standards in the News

    A Fordham Institute’s report, Stars by Which to Navigate: Scanning National and International Standards in 2009, has brought The Common Core State Standards Initiative back into the news. Proposed National Academic Standards Sidestep Debate By Nick Anderson The Common Core State Standards Initiative, as it is known, is an attempt to fashion de [...]
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    Posted: October 14, 2009, 5:38pm EDT
    by Mark

  • Online Learning and Homeschooling

    The title and subtitle tells us what the article is about. Online High Schools Test Students’ Social Skills As Digital Learning Programs Grow, Educators Hope to Prevent Teens From Feeling Isolated Online high schools are growing more popular. Roughly 100,000 of the 12 million high-school-age students in the U.S. attend 438 online schools [...]
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    Posted: October 13, 2009, 10:49am EDT
    by Mark

  • Homeschooling – Public School Programs

    An article in The Kansas City Star by Tim Engle is worthy of note and a thank you too. Engle starts his story, Virtual kids: Actually they’re real, but they go to school online describing the school day of eleventh-grader Philip Marten. Marten’s second-hour class is orchestra. But first hour, [...]
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    Posted: October 12, 2009, 7:28am EDT
    by Mark

  • Homeschooling Envy?

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    Found an an interesting response to a column titled “Even Government Envious Of Homeschooling Success” on The Clarion Ledger website by former State Superintendent, Richard A. Boyd. Matt Friedeman’s column (”Even government envious of homeschooling success,” Aug. 30) praised the success of students who are homeschooled on academic tests, and went [...]
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    Posted: October 07, 2009, 4:24pm EDT
    by Mark

  • Economy drives more parents to homeschool

    This article on The Greenville News’ site points to the economy as a reasons for an increasing number of families choosing to homeschool. With 345 students enrolled this school year, the Upstate Homeschool Co-op has seen its numbers swell dramatically since it first began as a small study group in Suzanne [...]
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    Posted: October 07, 2009, 7:42am EDT
    by Mark

  • Taking away the youth of students

    In Different Perspectives: The Daily Illini Opinion Blogs, homeschooler turned college student, Colleen Lindsay addresses longer school hours, improved test scores and the lives of our children. Lagging far behind the rest of the world academically, American schools have been struggling to catch up. Now, we take action! The proposed solution is [...]
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    Posted: October 05, 2009, 9:00am EDT
    by Mark

  • Homeschooler Going Mainstream

    An AP piece about the race for South Carolina’s State Superintendent of Education was picked up by a number of outlets. From Education Week (requires registration): Homeschooling Parent Enters S.C. Schools Chief Race Columbia, S.C. A small business owner who home-schools her children said Thursday she’s running to be South Carolina’s education superintendent. Elizabeth [...]
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    Posted: October 02, 2009, 8:47pm EDT
    by Helen Hegener

  • Maryland- Unschooling “research needed in order to justify it”

    From home schooling to ‘unschooling’ By Joe Burris of the Baltimore Sun If most [people] think back to their own school experiences, how much of the information you were expected to learn do you know today?” added Conner, an unschooling parent. “We cannot know beyond the shadow of a doubt precisely what [...]
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    Posted: September 04, 2009, 7:20am EDT
    by Susan

  • South Carolina Homeschooler Resigns from State Board of Education

    Clemson home-school mom resigns as chairman of state Board of Education Ron Barnett  September 2, 2009 Greenville Online Kristin Maguire, a Clemson home-school mom who became chairman of the state Board of Education in January, has resigned from the board, ending a nine-year tenure. Advertisement She sent a letter to Gov. Mark Sanford, [...]
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    Posted: September 02, 2009, 7:21am EDT
    by Susan

  • Review-’WRITE THESE LAWS ON YOUR CHILDREN’

    Number of comments: 4
    WRITE THESE LAWS ON YOUR CHILDREN: Inside the World of Conservative Christian Homeschooling By Robert Kunzman The book was released in August of 2009 and published by Beacon Press of Boston. A Review by Susan Ryan, Illinois Homeschooler In one of Robert Kunzman’s interviews with six “strongly conservative” Christian homeschooling families, a California [...]
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    Posted: August 24, 2009, 11:05am EDT
    by Susan

  • Home School Regulations

    Number of comments: 4
    Three Smart Rules for Home School Regulation, by Jay Mathews, an education columnist for The Washington Post, is an article homeschool advocates should read, as it presages an attitude which we’ll likely be seeing more of in the coming weeks and months: Homeschooling is the sleeping giant of the American education [...]
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    Posted: August 21, 2009, 4:37pm EDT
    by Helen Hegener

  • North Carolina-Homeschooling trend on the rise

    Reports: Home school trend on the rise in N.C. By Brock Letchworth The Daily Reflector August 05, 2009 State reports indicate that more parents are placing their kids in home schools, and some officials don’t think the trend will end soon. The annual statistical report released earlier this week by the North [...]
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    Posted: August 05, 2009, 12:13pm EDT
    by Susan

  • Playing Around with Homeschool Numbers

    The August 2nd Grand Junction Daily Sentinel article header listing the number of homeschoolers in the district was a bit startling to this homeschooler who doesn’t report or register in Illinois. Apparently Colorado homeschoolers notify annually to school authorities. In District 51, 538 students are schooled at home By EMILY ANDERSON/The Grand [...]
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    Posted: August 03, 2009, 10:55am EDT
    by Susan

  • ‘Home-school Field Day rocks!’

    If you build it, they will come. Indiana’s Post-Tribune: Home-schooled children enjoy games, food, fun By Donna Rettew, Post-Tribune correspondent VALPARAISO — Jennifer Vanderstar of Valparaiso has fond memories of field-day competitions during her elementary school years. The positive experience prompted her to stage a similar event this year for children, including her own, [...]
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    Posted: July 31, 2009, 12:50pm EDT
    by Susan

  • Louisville-Learning Closer to Home

    Jefferson County Public Schools are getting some parental feedback about school building choice.  One 5 year old’s parent ‘left the building’ to keep her daughter off the bus and very close to home. JCPS assignment plan causing frustration for many parents WHAS11.com Amy Ashley left JCPS offices having just filed her frustration. “At [...]
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    Posted: July 31, 2009, 8:40am EDT
    by Susan

  • Homeschooling and Sports

    The issues surrounding homeschooling and public school programs, whether academic or extracurricular, are not new, and over the years a lot has been published on this issue. A search of the archives on this blog alone has 12 pages of posts on homeschooling and sports, dating back to April 2005. The [...]
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    Posted: July 29, 2009, 7:30am EDT
    by Mark

  • Escalating Home Visits by Authorities in Japan and elsewhere

    Kyoko Aizawa of Otherwise Japan (a homeschool support organization) sent out word of a new law that is effective as of July 1.   Kyoko states this new law authorizes arbitrary governmental visits of any child’s home.  Wendy Priesnitz of Natural Life Magazine also pointed out The Long Arm of the [...]
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    Posted: July 22, 2009, 3:26pm EDT
    by Susan

  • Indiana-”The Home-School Effect”

    A new pilot charter school has been approved in Indiana. “The home-school effect” came up in the Journal Gazette, just as it often does in much of this educational trend’s media coverage, potential vendors’ marketing points, along with many legislators’ concerns. Charter schools set for online trial run The Journal Gazette by [...]
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    Posted: July 21, 2009, 12:53pm EDT
    by Susan

  • Virginia-Homeschoolers eligible for higher education financial aid

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    State council approves plan for home-school grads to get student aid The Virginian-Pilot By Denise Watson Batts The State Council of Higher Education for Virginia approved new criteria Tuesday that will allow home-schooled graduates to qualify for state financial aid that they were previously barred from receiving. More below on the Organization of [...]
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    Posted: July 15, 2009, 8:24am EDT
    by Susan

  • Connecticut-On being a “self-learner”

    Woodbury teen (un) schooled in ways of the world REPUBLICAN-AMERICAN BY MATT JOHNSON “I really got a sense of being a self-learner,” he said. “When you’re unschooled, you never stop learning just because you leave the classroom. I know how to seek the information that I want, and that’s huge in college.” But [...]
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    Posted: July 14, 2009, 12:58pm EDT
    by Susan

  • Missouri-Homeschooling and Divorce Court

    A Missouri divorce case has been discussed at length within the homeschool blog community.    Dana at Principled Discovery has one discussion: Homeschooling mother may be ordered to send children to public school Today, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch has an article about the situation. Home-schooling at issue in St. Charles County divorce case By [...]
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    Posted: July 12, 2009, 9:56am EDT
    by Susan

  • Early Start on Big Dream

    This violinist is following his passion with a big smile and great global adventures.  Seems to set up ideal peer relationships for this 11 year old: Music sends Marion boy on great adventure By Tara Fasol-Chambers , The Southern Shortly after auditioning, he found out he had been chosen and was not [...]
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    Posted: July 08, 2009, 9:38am EDT
    by Susan

  • Kentucky-The Flexibility of Homeschooling

    Summer breaks are different for home school families The News-Enterprise By KELLY R. CANTRALL Ingalls began home schooling her children because of her husband’s job in the military, which necessitated several moves for the family, she said. The accommodating nature of home schooling made the moves easier, including this past school year, [...]
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    Posted: July 08, 2009, 8:33am EDT
    by Susan

  • Western Australia Cracking Down

    Father to face court for letting kids miss school The West Australian 5th July 2009 A father of six who believes youngsters should be set free from schooling has become the first parent in WA to go to court and face a fine for not sending his children to school. Mr Meier, [...]
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    Posted: July 07, 2009, 10:19pm EDT
    by Susan

  • HSLDA Slips in the Back Door….Again

    Number of comments: 1
    Many homeschoolers are on the watch for back door legislation or other attempts to limit our families’ freedoms. “Universal” anything often gives us a heads up. Politicians discuss the potential advantages. Interested lobbyists look to see what they can get out of the deal. HSLDA (a homeschool member financed organization) often [...]
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    Posted: July 06, 2009, 5:21pm EDT
    by Susan

  • 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 [...]
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    Posted: July 01, 2009, 9:06am EDT
    by Susan

  • Florida: Homeschooling is “Rich Soil for Learning”

    Great looking “home-grown” veggies in the pictures Homeschooling offers a rich soil for learning Tampa Bay Times By MINDY RUBENSTEIN, June 27, 2009 They [homeschool support group] go on field trips to local parks and to the zoo. And they work together to tend a large, thriving garden at one member’s Zephyrhills home. They [...]
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    Posted: June 29, 2009, 10:26am EDT
    by Susan

  • Going Mainstream

    I thought this article below was interesting, in that it came from business media in Dubai.  But the piece covered a Maryland homeschooling family, and the usual (not necessarily accurate) rendition of  modern homeschool history. Homeschooling goes from fringe to mainstream in US Emirates Business 24/7 - June 25, 2009 At the height [...]
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    Posted: June 25, 2009, 4:36pm EDT
    by Susan

  • Home-schoolers embrace Free Minds

    Encouraging to read this piece about homeschooling in PA. Home-schooling is not about staying at home, a misperception that makes many home-school parents roll their eyes. In fact, home-schooled children are usually out exploring the community, or attending classes designed for home-schoolers at Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Carnegie Science Center, [...]
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    Posted: June 25, 2009, 1:01pm EDT
    by Mark

  • Living and Learning on the Farm

    My daughter Sophia, the one who wears a princess dress to pick slugs out of the woodpile so she can feed them to the chickens, seemed content with Brian’s answer about meat. She was curious enough, too, to come out on the morning when Tom the butcher came to visit. [...]
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    Posted: June 25, 2009, 7:58am EDT
    by Susan

  • IL School Authorities Give Credit Where Credit is Due

    Naperville area homeschoolers negotiated with school authorities, and common sense prevailed. A potential district policy revision demanding that a “district-approved external accrediting agency” certified any homeschool credits and grades transferred onto a public high school transcript was dropped. The Naperville Sun reports this news from Indian Prairie School District 204’s school [...]
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    Posted: June 24, 2009, 10:17am EDT
    by Susan

  • Kansas City Mayor Plans Education Summit ‘for All’

    He envisions the conference attracting 1,000 to 2,000 people from every school district as well as private, charter, home-school and faith-based schools in Kansas City to the Sprint Center. Funkhouser told students at Metropolitan Community College - Penn Valley the education summit would double as an economic development confab in [...]
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    Posted: June 24, 2009, 8:43am EDT
    by Susan

  • Home-schooling twisted into the public school debate

    The off-handedness of the “home-school” reference in this AP piece on the New Jersey’s gubernatorial race caught my eye. More promises that increasing educational standards will lead to a quality education and a “home-school program” is in the mix. A twist in education stances in NJ governor’s race CAMDEN, N.J. - As [...]
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    Posted: June 23, 2009, 4:53pm EDT
    by Mark

  • What Educational Studies don’t say…

    Not so fast: Home schooling trumps full-day kindergarten Jun. 18, 2009 The Globe and Mail Amira Elghawaby Research shows home-schooled kids outperform their public-school peers. So why so is there little or no financial encouragement for parents to take it on? Seated beside a mom with coiffed hair, polished nails and an [...]
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    Posted: June 19, 2009, 1:02pm EDT
    by Susan

  • Louisiana: Bill Amended for Homeschool Participation in Public School Sports

    Some Senators managed very localized exemptions in this state bill. Senate passes amended bill for home schoolers to play public school sports by Bill Barrow, The Times-Picayune June 18, 2009 BATON ROUGE — The Louisiana Senate today approved a measure to allow home-schooled youths to participate in public school sports, though several [...]
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    Posted: June 19, 2009, 9:42am EDT
    by Susan

  • Family Friendly Libraries

    Number of comments: 1
    Our family has visited a few libraries through the years.  We have scoped out our favorites, and with gargantuan book check out lists and our sometimes unfortunate home tracking system, we pay our overdue fines without regret at those establishments.  (We’re already overflowing our bookshelves, so borrowing a good read [...]
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    Posted: June 17, 2009, 11:01am EDT
    by Susan
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