“This past fall many homeschool advocates noticed an increase in media challenges to homeschooling laws, regulations, and long-accepted practices, not only in many parts of the U.S., but around the world, in countries where homeschooling is also popular.”
“In the Washington Post, education columnist Jay Mathews called homeschooling “the sleeping giant of the American education system.” [...]
“I am sure my children learned to read by osmosis. I certainly didn’t teach them. It wasn’t for lack of materials, understand. I had phonics books and some anthologies accompanied by thick spiral bound teacher’s guides detailing ways to incorporate literature into science, math, and social studies. What I didn’t have was time enough to [...]
No grades in the first year of a three-year pilot course at Augsburg…
“Grades get in the way,” said Lars Christiansen, a sociology professor who is researching grades and five colleges that decided to do without them. “They become this extrinsic goal that … can be in conflict with trying to cultivate students’ intrinsic interest in [...]
One of our strongest and most respected voices for homeschooling, our longest running HEM columnist and the author of many of homeschooling’s most beloved books, steps out on a new path for families with a new blog titled Parent at the Helm:
Hi. By way of introduction, I’m Linda Dobson. In a nutshell? I’m a [...]
HEM’s Questions & Answers – January-February 2010
Deadline is Nov. 25th for replies to these questions, which will run in the January-February issue of Home Education Magazine. You can reply to either or both questions in the comments section below:
Teaching Grammar?
I haven’t found any way to teach grammar that keeps the interest of my ten-year-old son. [...]
The Nov-Dec issue features an interview with James Marcus Bach, who writes of being “dedicated to a certain lifestyle of mind. I call it intellectual buccaneering. I call myself a buccaneer-scholar. Just as the original buccaneers would not submit to authority in their pursuit of worldly riches, neither do us modern buccaneers yoke ourselves to [...]
