Helen on November 21st, 2008

Washington Post columnist Kathleen Parker wrote an essay which presents a perspective for anyone seeking to understand the history of homeschooling. I’m not going to paraphrase the writing or pull choice quotes out of context. You just need to go read the whole thing for yourself. Then, if anyone’s so inclined, I’ll be happy to [...]

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Helen on November 17th, 2008

One of my long-time favorite bloggers is Karen Braun, known in the homeschool blogging world as Spunky. Her Spunky Homeschool blog has often made me think, many times made me laugh, always provided thoughtful and inspiring reading in one capacity or another.
Today Spunky writes about an upcoming documentary and shares her thoughts about the message [...]

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Helen on August 4th, 2008

A friend and I were discussing homeschooling recently and she mentioned an editorial I wrote many years ago titled “On Jumping Through Hoops,” and said that although it’s still available on the HEM site, I should make it more easily available for new readers, especially as we were headed into the “not-back-to-school” end of summer [...]

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Helen on April 10th, 2008

For as long as I can remember, Patrick Farenga has been a good friend and ally, not only to we at Home Education Magazine, but to homeschoolers and unschoolers everywhere. So it was with great dismay that I read the essay this morning at his website, PatFarenga.com. Pat wrote, in part: “It has come to [...]

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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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