Helen on September 21st, 2009

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 [...]

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Helen on August 7th, 2009

“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, [...]

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Helen on August 1st, 2009

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 [...]

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Helen on July 24th, 2009

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.

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Helen on July 24th, 2009

In the July/August 2009 Home Education Magazine, Mary Nix interviews long-time Texas unschooler and founder of the international Rethinking Education conference, Barb Lundgren

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Helen on July 20th, 2009

Mary Nix has collected a delightful mix of articles from past issues of Home Education Magazine under the heading ‘Homeschool Seasons,’ and it includes writings on children and learning by Amber P. Keefer, Helen Hegener, Linda Dobson, Larry and Susan Kaseman, Barbara Theisen, Joyce Kurtak Fetteroll, Karen Vogel, and Tamara Orr. As Mary notes, “…as the seasons passed, I learned to relax as if it were summer all year and I enjoyed seeing what the freedom to learn, live and explore offers a child…”

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