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 [...]
Unschooling Blog: A Weapon of Mass Instruction in The War On Toddlers
The weblog for the Unschooling.com site summarizes why this article in the current issue of HEM is important reading:
Why is there a drive to institutionalize preschoolers in government schools? Here are some of the reasons for this “war on toddlers†and some of the [...]
I received a letter via email this morning from Susan Mule, whose daughter Elizabeth raises tarantulas for medical research. Susan wrote:
Hi, I was once asked, after my homeschooled daughter’s appearance on Oprah Winfrey, to let your magazine know about her future accomplishments (Yahoo or Google search “Elizabeth Mule tarantulas”) This past weekend Elizabeth was inducted [...]
HEM September-October 2005 – Selected Content
In the second part of an interview with Deborah Stevenson of the National Home Education Legal Defense (NHELD) about the threats facing homeschooling parents, Judy Aron asks, “Why do state Departments of Education and government want to encroach on homeschooling issues?”
Deborah Stevenson starts her long reply with this: “Follow the [...]
A biography of photographer Ansel Adams
Charles and Olive Adams gave their son, Ansel, the freedom to grow and become whatever his intellect and talents would allow him to be. At twelve, unable to stand the confinement and tedium of the classroom, he utterly disrupted his lessons with wild laughter and undisguised contempt for the inept [...]
