Homeschooling News

Holly Craw, the Phoenix, Arizona Homeschooling Examiner, asks a question we’re hearing more and more often these days in her article Arizona loses out on Race to the Top Funds: Is this a new opportunity to strengthen homeschooling? A couple of excerpts: The Arizona homeschool community may need to gear up for an increase in its [...]

Huffington Post blogger Kate Fridkis writes about the New York Style Magazine article on upscale New York homeschool cooperatives: The New York Times Style Magazine piece about the trendy Brooklyn homeschoolers, “School’s In,” both did and didn’t remind me of my own pre-college education. My family called it unschooling, because we didn’t have any classes. We [...]

In an article for the New York Style magazine, an article titled School’s In explores the trendsetting approaches to homeschooling being taken by Brooklyn hipster parents (including fashion photographers, a cinematographer, a dancer-choreographer and a sculptor among them) when the local schools didn’t quite pass muster. …is this a school, or artists trying to render [...]

An interesting and enlightening article on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s website, StLToday.com, titled Adventures in Public Schooling, Homeschooling, and Living in Both Worlds by Sharon Autenrieth: Twelve years ago my husband and I had dinner with friends. They were homeschooling their youngest child, then in fifth grade, and at some point in the evening the [...]

CBS News’ Political Hotsheet has an article about the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child: 31 GOP Senators Oppose U.N. Children’s Rights Convention by Brian Montopoli – 36 comments Thirty-one Republican senators are cosponsoring a resolution opposing the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, according to the conservative group [...]

From the Southtown Star, an edition of the Chicago Sun-Times, an article by Fran Eaton titled Homeschooling taught lessons for both children and parents: Any day now, we’ll all be hearing those familiar sounds of school buses and young voices shouting out as the kids head back to school. That first day marks a fresh beginning [...]

As her always-homeschooled children enter public school for the first time, Andromeda Romano-Lax, an Alaskan writer, author of The Spanish Bow and more than 10 travel and natural history books, shares her perspective on lessons she learned while homeschooling her children. Andromeda’s post is at 49 Writers, a blog for Alaskan authors: They were giddy this [...]

ParentDish, a new weblog launched by AOL and dedicated to parenting, asks Would You Homeschool Your Kids? and the lengthy comments are as interesting as the well-written pro and con commentaries about homeschooling, penned by Amy Hatch and Crystal Paine.

From the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Las Vegas, Nevada: DUAL ROLES: Networking, resources make it easier for parents to teach their own children: It’s impossible to say just how many children are currently home-schooled in Clark County, Goldman says, because parents are required to inform the school district of their intentions only once. They file a [...]

An article in the Frederick News-Post, from Frederick, Maryland, titled Students go to head of the class with homeschooling: If there is a common myth or misconception about homeschooling, it’s that people believe homeschooled children are being educated in a vacuum. “I wish people would stop asking me about socialization,” she said. “My answer is always, ‘What [...]

Waldorf? So last semester. A writer learns that home schooling is suddenly chic.

A Tennessee judge granted asylum to a German couple who said they feared persecution in their home country because they wanted to home school their five children.

Although alternative schooling is not new to junior athletics, tennis is perhaps the only sport whose full participation requires it because of year-round competition and travel.

The Glory for Christ Football League, which emphasizes faith and fellowship, came into being because school teams were not an option in Georgia.

A community of like-minded parents is opting to enrich rather than formally educate their not-yet-school-age children.

WHEN her son, Ricky, entered elementary school in the Katonah-Lewisboro district, Joy Drummond spent hours every evening helping him learn what his teachers had presented in the classroom. But Ricky, who has a learning disability, was not able to absorb the lessons. “I was reteaching him everything,” Ms. Drummond said.

A new State Department of Education rule will restrict support services for children with disabilities who are educated at home.

Across the United States, Muslims who find that a public school education clashes with their religious or cultural traditions have turned to educating their children at home.

Home-school basketball players are now tracked by scouts, and some have accepted scholarships to leading colleges.

Half a million American children take classes online, and many attend virtual public schools that compete with districts for financing.

WHEN Heidemarie Ratje of East Patchogue received a letter from the South Country Central School District last June saying that all students turning 11 would be required to get an immunization shot, she thought it did not apply to her daughter.

A lack of regulation of the home schooling process may have contributed to the abuse and murders of the children of Banita M. Jacks in Washington.

Evangelical proponents of home-schooling form a kind of miniature political machine, and they appear to be backing Mike Huckabee.

WASHINGTON DEPOT.

Seven letters repond to Nov 26 article about newest wrinkle in home schooling called unschooling, which rejects most conventions of modern education system; Mary Kalamaras says children should not have to make decisions about something so vital to their future welfare; Sue Smith-Heavenrich relates experience of home-schooling her young son until he decided to continue in conventional school system; Margaret Marrin Spencer does not understand why parents home school; Jerry Mintz, director of Alt...