Helen on December 13th, 2009

The Book Arts Bash is a writing contest for homeschooled authors. The Book Arts Bash celebrates untrammeled creativity, and promotes the integration of writing across the curriculum. We put homeschooled students’ best work on the desks of literary agents, best-selling authors, and other industry professionals, to encourage young writers and connect great minds.
The first Book [...]

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Helen on December 11th, 2009

Of all possible homeschooling resources – after, of course, such pipe-dream unobtainables as unlimited time and money – next-best is a library card. Kids vary certainly, but there’s no doubt, as Neil Postman said, that a magnificent education can be obtained solely through reading; and even for the reading-resistant, the library has a lot to [...]

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Helen on December 10th, 2009

The Home Education Magazine Back Issue Index spans a twelve-year period of HEM online, and a sampling of articles and columns from each issue are available free in these archives. You can quickly find specific topics with the search feature.
Home Education Magazine consistently publishes the best articles, interviews, columns, resource reviews, political commentary and [...]

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Helen on December 9th, 2009

A couple of weeks ago we wrote about Linda Dobson’s new web site, Parent at the Helm, and shared her primary question for parents:
“Will the majority of your time and energy go elsewhere in the hope that a giant institution is giving your child the best, one-shot at education s/he can get? Or can you [...]

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Helen on December 8th, 2009

Have you ever gone to a homeschool convention and wished that you could have picked the workshops that were offered? A simple way to have that decision-making power is to organize your own homeschool convention. Did I say simple? Well, if you have a computer, are a fairly determined person (what homeschool mom isn’t?), [...]

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Helen on December 4th, 2009

“Just after lunch, one Monday each month, there is an audible buzz in the children’s room of our local library. The hubbub begins at the door as a group of five enthusiastic homeschooled boys race one another into a much anticipated book club meeting. They are an eclectic group, but the chattering is nonstop and [...]

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