Helen on July 23rd, 2005

HEM’s News & Commentary changes editorship today: outgoing editor Ann Lahrson Fisher hands the reins over to incoming editor Valerie Bonham Moon! Click on over for some great reading from two of my favorite writers!

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Helen on July 20th, 2005

The Albert Lea Tribune
A wonderful article from a Minnesota newspaper about a second-generation homeschooling family:
Homeschooling has been increasing in popularity for the last decade. But for many families it’s been a way of life for a much longer period of time.
“It’s a lifestyle. We don’t fit our life around school, we fit learning around life,” [...]

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Continued from July 15:
We have a big red spiral-bound notebook, one of those 200 page, college ruled notebooks divided into five subject areas. Written across the cover in black marker are these words: Home Education Magazine, Issue 1, Volume 1 (putting it together). This notebook was literally the blueprint for the first issue of the [...]

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Helen on July 16th, 2005

Longtime homeschooling mom and activist Valerie Moon is our new HEM News & Commentary editor!
Which means… yes… Ann Lahrson Fisher is retiring after two years of outstanding reporting on news affecting the homeschooling community. I know many readers will miss her always on-target commentary.
Ann left a large hole when she stepped down as [...]

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Helen on July 16th, 2005

It has been brought to our attention that someone has created a site with the URL www.americanhomeschoolassociation.com, which is obviously designed to be mistaken for the American Homeschool Association site, which ends in .org, not .com.
We hope people will take care to link to the real AHA site and not the mere wanna-be.

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