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Indiana’s Post-Tribune: Home-schooled children enjoy games, food, fun
By Donna Rettew, Post-Tribune correspondent
VALPARAISO — Jennifer Vanderstar of Valparaiso has fond memories of field-day competitions during her elementary school years.
The positive experience prompted her to stage a similar event this year for children, including her own, who don’t attend a traditional [...]
Home school in the Willamette Valley
By Therese ONeill WillametteLive
If there remains one way to shock friends and family in an open-minded 21st century society, it is to tell them that you are considering home-schooling your children.
Home education is a burdened concept, calling to mind the odd classmate from high school that couldn’t make eye contact [...]
I thought this article below was interesting, in that it came from business media in Dubai. But the piece covered a Maryland homeschooling family, and the usual (not necessarily accurate) rendition of modern homeschool history.
Homeschooling goes from fringe to mainstream in US
Emirates Business 24/7 – June 25, 2009
At the height of the hippy culture [...]
Encouraging to read this piece about homeschooling in PA.
Home-schooling is not about staying at home, a misperception that makes many home-school parents roll their eyes. In fact, home-schooled children are usually out exploring the community, or attending classes designed for home-schoolers at Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Carnegie Science Center, the zoo, libraries or nature [...]
My daughter Sophia, the one who wears a princess dress to pick slugs out of the woodpile so she can feed them to the chickens, seemed content with Brian’s answer about meat. She was curious enough, too, to come out on the morning when Tom the butcher came to visit. We got an anatomy lesson [...]
That quote in the header was from a Cook County (Chicago) Circuit Court summary judgment in favor of the Chicago Virtual Charter School (CVCS). Why were they talking about homeschooling in a virtual school judgment? This week, the Chicago Teachers Union lawsuit claiming Chicago Public School/IL State Board of Education authorization illegalities was [...]
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Choice to homeschool children not a matter of money, experts say Bloomington Pantagraph
By Phyllis Coulter
“I personally don’t know anyone who home-schools — or not — based on the economy,” said Shelly Nelson, coordinator of a homeschooling network in McLean County. “The economy plays little or no part in the decision to homeschool.”
Twin City school [...]
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On Sunday, CBS aired another program on homeschooling, this one less strident than the network’s last memorable foray into homeschooling reportage.
The ABCs Of Home Schooling, 14 September 2008, CBS News (video report with full-screen function at site)
Despite the change in CBS’s attitude towards homeschooling parents, the report still reflects an institutional-default as the reporter’s standpoint. [...]
Home schooled due to bullies, 13 July 2008, Courier Mail, Bowen Hills, Queensland, Australia
Parents of both bullying victims and expelled bullies are turning to home schooling in a bid to salvage an education for their children.
There are now an estimated 22,000 students learning from home in Queensland, double the number counted by a government working [...]
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Review-’WRITE THESE LAWS ON YOUR CHILDREN’
WRITE THESE LAWS ON YOUR CHILDREN: Inside the World of Conservative Christian Homeschooling By Robert Kunzman
The book was released in August of 2009 and published by Beacon Press of Boston.
A Review by Susan Ryan, Illinois Homeschooler
In one of Robert Kunzman’s interviews with six “strongly conservative” Christian homeschooling families, a California homeschooling mom related her kids [...]
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