Helen on February 26th, 2010

HEM’s News & Commentary tracks news stories of interest to homeschoolers and the homeschooling community. Recent posts include:

Certified teacher joins homeschool world
Homeschooling – The Political Football
Experts’ Vision for Future Assessments
Romeike Family Asylum Ctd.
Questioning College Degrees
Zombie Zealots Coming of Age
Home-schooling money divvied up
Utah Senate OKs homeschooled student sports
Webcam Spy Case
Homeschooled Olympians

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Helen on January 13th, 2010

HEM’s News & Commentary tracks news stories of interest to homeschoolers and the homeschooling community. Recent posts include:

Uplifting the Discourse
Arrest Story Goes Viral
A Tough Read
Misdirected Angst
Couple Arrested for Homeschooling in New York
More Like Homeschooling
Making a Stand for the Traditional Classroom
Getting “Homeschooling” Right
Education Research
Homeschoolers and Achievement Tests

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Helen on October 5th, 2009

Writer and researcher Milton Gaither, author of Homeschool: An American History, did a very interesting round-up piece on homeschool-related news articles and stories in his Sept. 28th post titled, appropriately, Current Events Round-Up. He summarizes at the end: “Being news items, these stories are of course sensationalistic and atypical, but they do remind us that [...]

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Helen on September 2nd, 2009

In an opinion piece for the Holland, Michigan Sentinel-News, Jennie Woehl offers commentary about an unfavorable piece which had earlier appeared in the paper, noting “I am stunned with the antipathy Boyce has toward home-schooling and would like to present a unique perspective that I have on home-schooled children.” Jennie continues:
“As a family nurse practitioner, [...]

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