Helen on November 18th, 2007

Our January-February, 2008 issue will mark the beginning of our 25th year of publishing Home Education Magazine.
A quarter of a century!
A couple of years ago I started writing a history of how we started the magazine, and those posts can still be found in the blog archive, under the category History of Homeschooling. To make [...]

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Helen on August 17th, 2007

This is only a little off-topic, since this blog is supported by a magazine whose publishers are grappling with ever-increasing postal rates. This postal rate hike is a concern because postal regulators have accepted a proposal from media giant Time Warner that would stifle small and independent publishers in America. The plan unfairly burdens smaller [...]

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Helen on August 17th, 2007

Almost a year ago, in October of 2006, homeschooler Rebecca Ward, of Beaverton, Oregon, became the new world champion of women’s sabre at the World Fencing Championships in Italy.
At the age of 16, she became the youngest fencing world champion and became the first fencer in history to hold the cadet, junior and senior [...]

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Our News & Commentary editor, Valerie Bonham Moon, is a master blogger, and she has an entire collection of them on which she shares her keen perspective and her razor-sharp wit. For me, Valerie is the very definition of the word pundit.
My favorite Valerie-blog is Happy as Kings, and maybe I just like it best [...]

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Helen on August 6th, 2007

Our long-time friend Jan Hunt, whose interview (by Mary Nix) appeared in our July/August issue, wrote recently to tell me they’ve added more bumper stickers to their selection, including these:
• Ask me about unschooling!
• If it matters to a child, it’s important!
• Life is the school – love is the lesson.
• Teaching interferes with learning. [...]

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