Our good friend Patrick Farenga has been an activist and an advocate for homeschooling for over 25 years. When the reknowned author and educator John Holt died, it was Patrick who picked up the reins of Holt’s newsletter, Growing Without Schooling, and kept it in print for many more years. Patrick has been an outspoken [...]
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My friend Susan Ryan posts a good explanation of why we are not fruit flies on her always-interesting Corn and Oil blog from the country’s heartland.
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, [...]
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Several of the discussion lists and weblogs which I frequently visit have recently focused on the topic of homeschooling and public charter schooling. It’s not a new subject, by any means, but the conversation this time around seems different in a few ways, and some of those ways are very encouraging.
My fellow bloggers here [...]
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 [...]
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