Homeschool mom and author Mary Potter Kenyon wrote an enthusiastic review of a history book for kids, The Smart Aleck’s Guide to American History by Adam Selzer, and her excitement is contagious:
“This book, this children’s book, has me enraptured. It is this irreverent style of writing that I have searched high and low for that [...]
“As homeschoolers we need to find ways to reach out to teachers and parents who don’t want to see childrens’ 12 years of compulsory schooling reduced to skills training for big business. Nurturing the human capacity to learn through love and intrinsic motivation is as important to life — to me, more important — as [...]
As 2009 draws to an end, this is a good time to review all the wonderful articles and columns which have appeared in Home Education Magazine over the past year! In 2009 we ran interviews in every issue, with interesting people such as Kathleen McCurdy, Rachel Barton Pine, Rain Perry Fordyce, Lauri Rogers, Barb Lundgren, [...]
In these last few days before the end of another year, I find myself thinking about a Learning 101 column, by Tamra Orr, which we ran in our May-June issue, Capturing Time , in which Tamra explored the concepts of learning, schooling, and mostly, capturing time… “What could be taught in those eight hours [...]
