In the November-December issue of Home Education Magazine our featured writers address homeschooling children of different ages, helping children become interested in and respectful of the natural world, learning history by producing a short drama, helping older kids and young adults learn about financial management, using writing contests to encourage kids to write, and how [...]
Are you always finding interesting stories, news items, websites and resources that you think other homeschoolers would enjoy? The AHA is looking for people to write for the American Homeschool Association’s Open Online Journalism project, or Citizen’s Journal. Your contribution can be a sentence or a paragraph, a single link or an entire page, a [...]
“The most common – and tragic – misunderstandings related to the questioning of these public school programs have always spiraled around the underlying intentions of those concerned about homeschooling freedoms. Accusations and attacks have derailed many discussions of the issue, and have repeatedly stymied attempts to hold meaningful conversations on the topic. As a result, [...]
We noted the passing of author and unschooling advocate Ned Vare last week, and we’re still coming across reminders of the good work Ned and his wife Luz Shosie did for homeschooling families, like this interview with Luz and Ned which Mary Nix did for HEM last year:
“Homeschooling does not need to be schooling-at-home. Real [...]
At the HEM News & Commentary, Mary Nix addresses Escalating Home Visits by Authorities in Japan and elsewhere. In Japan, longtime homeschooling advocate Kyoko Aizawa has legitimate concerns, and there are alarming comparisons in the United States.
