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. [...]
This article on The Greenville News’ site points to the economy as a reasons for an increasing number of families choosing to homeschool.
With 345 students enrolled this school year, the Upstate Homeschool Co-op has seen its numbers swell dramatically since it first began as a small study group in Suzanne Brown’s Taylors home for her [...]
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Reports: Home school trend on the rise in N.C.
By Brock Letchworth The Daily Reflector August 05, 2009
State reports indicate that more parents are placing their kids in home schools, and some officials don’t think the trend will end soon.
The annual statistical report released earlier this week by the North Carolina Division of Non-Public Education [...]
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State council approves plan for home-school grads to get student aid The Virginian-Pilot
By Denise Watson Batts
The State Council of Higher Education for Virginia approved new criteria Tuesday that will allow home-schooled graduates to qualify for state financial aid that they were previously barred from receiving.
More below on the Organization of Virginia Homeschoolers‘ February legislative updates [...]
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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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