Helen on August 29th, 2006

Trying to catch up with some of my favorite blogs and came across this from Spunky, which I thought deserved excerpting here (I strongly advise clicking over and reading her entire post):
SpunkyHomeSchool: The Online Charter Homeschool Myth
“For the record, I don’t care what curriculum Dan or anyone else chooses to homeschool their children. It’s your [...]

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Helen on August 27th, 2006

Anyone interested in this important topic will want to visit the informative AHA Focus: Charter Schools site/blog, maintained by our good friend Annette Jurczak, of the National Charter School Watch. There’s a wealth of articles, essays, letters, resources and more available on the subject.

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Helen on August 24th, 2006

This time of year always brings a landslide of inquiries about homeschooling, and over the years we’ve developed a wide selection of resources to help you learn more about homeschooling – many available free right here on our HEM website!
For starters we have a whole section devoted to the questions and concerns people have [...]

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Helen on August 22nd, 2006

“…Who should be educating and caring for our young? Who should be setting the standards by which we raise and teach our children? Should that be families, moms, and dads – or the governments of the world?”
These questions are from an important interview with Judy Aron, Research Director for National Home Education Legal Defense, posted [...]

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Helen on August 22nd, 2006

A new discussion list has been created to facilitate contributing to and editing the new book on Emergency Homeschooling now being compiled. For complete information about this book see the post just below this one; to join the list click here: Emergency Homeschooling List.

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