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…any homeschooling parent to discuss the pushback that he’s received from friends and family over the years and he’ll tell you that the need for his children to be “properly…

…former teacher. In addition, my husband and I homeschooled our children for almost 20 years, and during that time there were more than a few stretches when chaos seemed to…

…possibility for herself. ‘Go where I went,’ Tyler said. ‘Go to college.’ I snorted. ‘BYU takes homeschoolers,’ he said. ‘Is that what we are?” I said. “Homeschoolers?’ I tried to…

“But how can you be sure they are getting everything they need?” It’s the question that as a homeschooling parent I have heard more often than any other, even more…

…on $12 million bail each. As the news media began covering the story, it was revealed that the Turpin children were homeschooled. For some, that fact immediately became the story….

…told, until the public schools went to remote in the spring I never seriously considered homeschooling. It didn’t take long for me to realize that remote learning was not going…

…shows homeschoolers whose parents have just a high school diploma still do better than the average public schooler. 4. And the four-pack of pianos. 5. School? What school? By: Ingo…

…charter schools or a wide variety of private schools. Meanwhile, homeschooling has come into its own, and there are zillions of resources and philosophies and homeschooling groups to consider. In…

…the Khan Academy are great resources, and my two favorite educators, Marva Collins and Charlotte Mason, offer wonderful educational philosophy inspiration. This season of homeschooling may be short for your…

…has remained completely under the radar. Either homeschoolers are obscure and absurd, or they’re a “tremendous” motherlode of political power. They can’t be both, Salon. The Duggars Are a Homeschool…

…students since 2020. In my home state of Virginia, homeschoolers now account for almost 60,000 students, which makes homeschooling the fifth largest school district in the commonwealth, as homeschooling advocate…

…to suspect neglect or abuse. The response of homeschooling families was swift. “We live in such a ‘guilty until proven innocent’ culture,” Amy Kwilinski, an Illinois homeschooling mom of six…

…will not occur, and I would rather homeschool my children than subject them to the prisons our schools will have to become in order to reopen. I and other parents…

…private school. One form of school has been growing around the country to address this niche: “hybrid homeschools.” “Hybrid homeschools” is a term of art. These schools might be considered…

…of our kids. The number-one response from people who have participated in the public-school experience, when asked why they hold homeschooling in such low regard, is: “Homeschoolers are sheltered; they…

…Fornshill is director of a Catholic homeschool co-op in Alexandria, Virginia, and has watched the growth of private interest in homeschool clientele. She described the hybrid education that home educators…

…Homeschooling was a huge success for their family. As Gunlock put it, shifting to homeschooling was “a remarkable awakening for me and my son.” He completed 1.5 years of curriculum…

…of approval. Homeschooling is generally not so much an alternative path to education as an outright rejection of the worst aspects of Western-style pedagogy, and homeschooling is the quickest way…

…through the Home School Legal Defense Association’s high school debate league, another major homeschooling network of the era. Although Josh Harris didn’t recommend this, some of the Christian and homeschooling…

…to use for our kids. I would really like to see homeschooled kids allowed to play public school sports. There are many reasons why people homeschool, not just because they…

…education failures. At the time, almost nobody homeschooled except for off-the-grid apocalypse types or Mennonites. Today, of course, practically everyone knows a homeschool family, and homeschooling has come a long…

…at home is extremely engaged in the e-learning process. And if these parents wanted to be homeschooling, they would have been. Online Schooling Isn’t Homeschooling Many parents who homeschooled before…

…homeschooling not just with conservative Christianity, but also with the “segregation academies” of the post-Brown v. Board of Education South. After grudgingly admitting the recent increase in homeschooling “may [in…

…should fall on their parents, and museums need to be aware of the homeschooling trend. Homeschooling is expected to continue growing in coming years, with recent U.S. Department of Education…

…no connection to government whatsoever. Any time something bad happens to a child who was homeschooled, calls go out for more government supervision.” He believes homeschooling families “would be better…

…in enrollment and purchases. Since 1999, federal statistics show homeschooling has doubled. Reports from around the country indicate that homeschooling has surged in the several years since Common Core arrived….

If your family has found yourselves in the sudden position of unexpectedly homeschooling, or if you’re an experienced homeschooler but you’re used to being able to go out and do…

Homeschooling families like mine aren’t as rare as we were just a few pandemic-free years ago. A recent Associated Press article by David Crary reported that according to the U.S….

…even more of a problem for homeschooling families. Whatever homeschooled children learned lacks the parchment from a recognized institution. What to do? Well, according to law professors from Emory, Georgetown,…

Over the past seven years of homeschooling, my husband and I have been surprised that the biggest objection people have to our educational choice for our children is not that…

A provision included in the House’s version of President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 pork spending bill would give federal employees the chance to take extended paid leave if their child or…

At least 19 children and two adults died on Tuesday after an 18-year-old opened fire at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. The shooter, now deceased, previously warned on social…

…the books alone would suffice. Help a Current or Potential Homeschooler If your Christmas list includes a mom or dad homeschooling the little (or not-so-little) ones, a few books for…

With my oldest daughter turning four years old, the age where we begin homeschooling in earnest is looming. One of the biggest obstacles to homeschooling is quite simple: how do…

…for better people to earn leadership posts — and we need that, badly. 2. One In Five Parents Is Homeschooling Right Now Homeschool Legal Defense Association’s research director, Steven Duvall,…

…one-size-fits-none educational system. States would be powerless to object. This Could Ban Private Ed, Including Homeschooling How would this affect homeschoolers? Bartholet writes in her 80-page Arizona Law Review article…