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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Continue reading about The Blogs of My Friends #4 – Patrick Farenga
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 [...]
Continue reading about The Blogs of My Friends #3 – Valerie Bonham Moon
