This Scouting Magazine article is a pleasant surprise.
Plug Into the Network
Why hooking up with the homeschooled can boost your pack.
Homeschool families can make a great addition to many packs because they’re child-focused, contain involved parents, and often share many of Cub Scouting’s core values. How can you connect with homeschool families in your community? Read [...]
In a blog post titled Children Teach Themselves to Read for the respected journal Psychology Today, author Peter Gray, a research professor of psychology at Boston College who has published research in comparative, evolutionary, developmental, and educational psychology, explains the various approaches to teaching children to read. He revisits the age-old “reading wars” between phonics [...]
The 2010 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race starts the first weekend in March, and for thousands of kids across the U.S. and around the world, it becomes a fun and engaging time to track the teams and learn about math, science, history, geography, language arts skills and much more in the context of an exciting [...]
HEM’s News & Commentary tracks news stories of interest to homeschoolers and the homeschooling community. Recent posts include:
Uplifting the Discourse
Arrest Story Goes Viral
A Tough Read
Misdirected Angst
Couple Arrested for Homeschooling in New York
More Like Homeschooling
Making a Stand for the Traditional Classroom
Getting “Homeschooling” Right
Education Research
Homeschoolers and Achievement Tests
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Eli Gerzon is a grown homeschooler who leads Worldschool Travel Tours especially for homeschooling/unschooling young adults. His current blog post details the amazing three week trip with six homeschoolers he led to Japan in November, with lots of wonderful photos of the trip.
Eli included some new information about his next Worldschool Travel Tour, also to [...]
HEM News & Commentary
HEM’s News & Commentary tracks news stories of interest to homeschoolers and the homeschooling community. Recent posts include:
Certified teacher joins homeschool world
Homeschooling – The Political Football
Experts’ Vision for Future Assessments
Romeike Family Asylum Ctd.
Questioning College Degrees
Zombie Zealots Coming of Age
Home-schooling money divvied up
Utah Senate OKs homeschooled student sports
Webcam Spy Case
Homeschooled Olympians
Check NewsComm, in the middle column [...]
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