HEM News & Commentary Editor Valerie Bonham Moon posted a note to her blog about a new research paper which is raising waves in homeschooling circles. Valerie gives a nod to homeschooling dad Chris O’Donnell for unearthing this find, and I likewise send appreciation to Chris for being right on top of things.
The paper, [...]
Continue reading about Illiberal Education: Constitutional Constraints on Homeschooling
In her latest post to the HEM Guide to Homeschooling Resources Mary Nix notes that three of HEM’s blogs have been nominated for the 2006 Homeschool Blog Awards!
Mary shares information about the history of the blog awards and posts links to each of the five HEM nominations. Voting for favorite blogs is happening until Friday, [...]
Our HEM-Networking discussion group is where HEM readers and other interested people gather to talk about whatever’s on their minds. One post which captured my interest recently came from a mom in Texas, Susan Smylie, proudly describing the awesome achievements of her teenage son and his friends, who comprise a team for the Odyssey of [...]
by Pat Montgomery
Melissa Busekros is a fifteen-year-old girl, the oldest of six children in the Busekros family. She lives in Erlangen, Germany. Melissa attended the Christian Ernst High Gymnasium until the summer of 2004 when she was told that she would have to repeat the grade because she was failing in Latin and [...]
Continue reading about Guest Editorial: Appalling Event in Germany
For the past couple of days there’s been an interesting discussion about the history of homeschooling laws and regulations taking place on the HEM-Networking list.
The discussion started with this post on Monday, in which the writer asked, in part: “…in the history of homeschooling, before we had laws (home education, homeschooling, home instruction, etc/) what [...]
