Helen on February 1st, 2010

There’s a new feature on this page, the HEM Facebook fan page – check it out in the middle column, under Around the Site.
Home Education Magazine was one of the earliest homeschool companies on the Internet, going online in 1997. Beginning with one of the very first Internet forums, HEM has contributed immeasurable support [...]

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Helen on January 29th, 2010

HEM columnist Laura Weldon shares a beautifully-written post about an interview from a recent issue. In Calling Out the Buccaneer-Scholars she writes:
I’ve been ruminating every which way about buccaneer living ever since reading a remarkable interview in Home Education Magazine between publisher Helen Hegener and James Marcus Bach. Bach, an internationally recognized expert in [...]

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Mark on January 29th, 2010

Okay, it is not true, but it has been an ‘inside’ joke for years at HEM. I ran across the headline just yesterday while adding a number of older issues from 1996-1989 to our Back Issue Sale.
Reading through those issues is a glimpse at the history of our homeschooling community both politically, and in our [...]

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Helen on January 28th, 2010

The 2010 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race starts the first weekend in March, and for thousands of kids across the U.S. and around the world, it becomes a fun and engaging time to track the teams and learn about math, science, history, geography, language arts skills and much more in the context of an exciting [...]

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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 January 8th, 2010

“I stand at the threshold of an alien subculture-the sorority of homeschool moms. Although I’m pretty sure there’s no secret handshake, there is much for me to learn. You see, I fell into homeschooling overnight, making the decision just days before my son’s first tuition payment was due. Now with one year under my belt, [...]

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