Helen on February 1st, 2010

Back issues of Home Education Magazine are available individually or in annual sets for the last ten years, from 2000 through 2009, but further back in our 27 year publishing history the available issues start getting a little thinner, and some issues can no longer be ordered. Only single issues are available for 2001, 1999, [...]

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Helen on January 19th, 2010

A collection of articles by and about fathers who homeschool their children includes some insightful writing and thoughtful perspectives on the subject of dads helping their kids learn. From Gary Wyatt’s observation that “Children need more of their fathers and fathers need more of their children,” to Earl Gary Stevens’ “For me the adventure turned [...]

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Helen on September 15th, 2009

The American Homeschool Association has been collecting and compiling good quotes about education since the organization first took shape in 1995. The AHA site includes a page dedicated to quotes relating to homeschooling, learning, children, families, freedoms, personal responsibilities and more.
Among those quoted are David and Micki Colfax, Earl Gary Stevens, Isaac Asimov, Margaret [...]

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Helen on July 29th, 2009

In his debut My Word! column for Home Education Magazine, the Sept/Oct 2000 issue, author and homeschool advocate David Albert chose to write about “A Flat Universe and the Nature of Science“:
About a month ago, a homeschooling mom with an obviously precocious ten-year-old, wrote to me with a problem:
“We read in The New York Times [...]

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