Helen on October 30th, 2009

“Homeschooling lifts a burden from schools and taxpayers. Whether we bond or not, the schools and the legislature should be encouraging parents to become self-reliant in the education of their children.
If elementary schools are going to experience 16% growth in the next five years, that need could be met if 16 children out of every [...]

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Helen on October 21st, 2009

A story picked up by the the Associated Press yesterday highlights a situation in which homeschooling is referenced, if not being actually done:
EBENSBURG, Pa. – The Pennsylvania Department of Education is investigating whether children in a conservative Amish sect are being educated since their western Pennsylvania school was padlocked in a dispute over the [...]

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Helen on October 5th, 2009

An article titled Home-school vs. Public School for news station KAUZ in Wichita Falls, Texas, opens with this comment from the President and the question it ostensibly raises:
“President Barack Obama sparked controversy earlier this week with the announcement that he believes American kids don’t spend enough time in school. He said by having kids spend [...]

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Helen on September 29th, 2009

Follow-up opinion piece to an Anchorage Daily News article we covered Sept. 14th:
In a sense every child is home-schooled, by Mary Kancewick, Published: September 28th, 2009 07:23 PM
The recent Daily News article about home schooling sets up a dichotomy between “home-school advocates” and “others,” or, as she later characterizes it, between “traditional bricks-and-mortar educators” and [...]

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Helen on September 21st, 2009

An editorial from the March-April, 2004 issue of Home Education Magazine:
Over the last twenty years we’ve written many editorials which have explained the virtues of homeschooling with enthusiasm while describing the problems with public schooling somewhat gingerly. We’ve found ourselves in the unenviable position of homeschool advocates who don’t want to alienate readers who may [...]

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Helen on August 19th, 2009

Earl Gary Stevens discusses making the decision between homeschooling and public school in this column from the March/April 1997 issue of Home Education Magazine:
“…Several parents have told me that they have enrolled children in public schools after having practiced home education, in some cases for many years. Some of them speak in a matter-of-fact way [...]

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