Homeschoolers compete in a lot of different kinds of contests:
From the Lincoln County Record, Pioche, NV – Established September 12, 1870
Panaca’s Cookie Crumb Trail Contest
By Angela Musser
The Christmas Tree Ornament Contest for Panaca’s Town Tree is now open to public and home school students.
Argus Leader – Sioux Falls, SD
Home-school team wins annual quiz bowl
For the [...]
If you are concerned about homeschooling your kids you can find encouragement in this story from The Ukiah Daily Journal:
Mathematics, Meyer Style
By Carole Brodsky
Ukiahan making waves in academia and cyberspace
For the Daily Journal
Holiday shoppers can thank Dan Meyer and his Ukiah High instructors for helping them shave precious minutes off their waiting time in crowded [...]
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In an article titled If School Is Cool, We Win, Author John Lewis takes us through his family’s first day of the school year through their approach to homeschooling. A few enlightening takes on the usual questions. Why we homeschool:
My wife Anne and I have been homeschooling our children for the past two years. [...]
While homeschoolers will continue to live their lives according to their beliefs and convictions, public perception of homeschooling can make life easy or much harder.
With that in mind, NBC’s Housewives series has written homeschooling into their script. From this week’s online summary:
Reading, writing and respect: When Juanita lets a swear word fly in her school [...]
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A Fordham Institute’s report, Stars by Which to Navigate: Scanning National and International Standards in 2009, has brought The Common Core State Standards Initiative back into the news.
Proposed National Academic Standards Sidestep Debate
By Nick Anderson
The Common Core State Standards Initiative, as it is known, is an attempt to fashion de facto national standards for math [...]
In Different Perspectives: The Daily Illini Opinion Blogs, homeschooler turned college student, Colleen Lindsay addresses longer school hours, improved test scores and the lives of our children.
Lagging far behind the rest of the world academically, American schools have been struggling to catch up. Now, we take action!
The proposed solution is longer hours of schooling per [...]
Woodbury teen (un) schooled in ways of the world REPUBLICAN-AMERICAN
BY MATT JOHNSON
“I really got a sense of being a self-learner,” he said. “When you’re unschooled, you never stop learning just because you leave the classroom. I know how to seek the information that I want, and that’s huge in college.”
But while he was able to [...]
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A Missouri divorce case has been discussed at length within the homeschool blog community. Dana at Principled Discovery has one discussion:
Homeschooling mother may be ordered to send children to public school
Today, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch has an article about the situation.
Home-schooling at issue in St. Charles County divorce case
By Jessica Bock and Shane [...]
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Summer breaks are different for home school families The News-Enterprise
By KELLY R. CANTRALL
Ingalls began home schooling her children because of her husband’s job in the military, which necessitated several moves for the family, she said. The accommodating nature of home schooling made the moves easier, including this past school year, when the Ingalls thought they [...]
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Maryland- Unschooling “research needed in order to justify it”
From home schooling to ‘unschooling’
By Joe Burris of the Baltimore Sun
If most [people] think back to their own school experiences, how much of the information you were expected to learn do you know today?” added Conner, an unschooling parent. “We cannot know beyond the shadow of a doubt precisely what our children will need when [...]
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