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…Writer, Take Every Opportunity Homeschoolers are notoriously good at turning everything into a learning experience. (Just ask a homeschooler whether her vacations were glorified field trips, and she’ll have countless…

…power it needs to implement the treaty. Third, there is the declaration designed to protect homeschoolers from the provisions of the treaty that will damage parental rights. The emptiness of…

…years of working with online charter schooling, I concluded that this form of education, particularly for elementary students, only works if the families view it as supported homeschooling. The parents…

…need an extra hour of tutoring after school to homeschoolers. ‘I am the normal personal historically. There’s nothing new about me.’ Gwynne reluctantly welcomes the growth of homeschooling. “It’s not…

…to homeschools and families throughout the pandemic. If you don’t work, you don’t get paid. It’s axiomatic. Public schools needn’t face complete defunding, but I cannot fathom why anyone should…

…a celebrity within the homeschool community: a homeschool graduate, son of a prominent homeschool advocate, and the editor of a magazine for homeschoolers. Harris’s influence expanded thanks to that book,…

…even more ground in 2016. One of those gains was in my district, where my friend and fellow homeschooling mother Patricia Rucker recently became my state senator. Although I’m admittedly…

…one of the girls’ birthday parties. Be creative and purposeful to reinforce the things you want to see, and tackle what you don’t. You chose to homeschool for most of…

…child yourself. National groups such as homeschoolamerica.com can help with locating and starting homeschooling programs. Bottom line: the education of your child or children is your job. Even if you…

…recently at the Great Homeschooling Convention in Cincinnati during the first weekend of April. Homeschool families are a natural constituency because linking the SAT and other standardized tests to a…

…factions: those who want vouchers and those who have opted out of public education entirely and are homeschooling their kids. The homeschoolers oppose any legislation that includes vouchers because they…

…view of homeschooling after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. An unofficial Reason Foundation Facebook poll conducted by Corey DeAngelis suggests that about 15 percent of children could be making…

…liberal homeschooling regulations in the country. Very blue Maryland even allows ministers, rabbis, and imams to substitute for state regulators in the oversight of homeschool families. At the same time,…

…in the bullet points: “[P]ercentage of K-12 parents homeschooling this year has doubled, to 10%.” You read that right. Gallup’s data suggests that, since last year, the home-school community in…

…Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) reports a major surge in homeschooling using U.S. Census Data. Even when compensating for remote learning by “[labeling] students as homeschoolers only if they…

…cannot homeschool or afford private school outright—meaning, most of us. Charter Choices Under Seige; Go Private Financial, demographic, and political pressure has still not moved Texas from being just about…

…the leap. Now I’ve homeschooled for three years and the advantages, for someone in my position, continue to outweigh the disadvantages. Our four-to-one ratio is the biggest boon. I know…

…technology caused me to reflect on why my husband and I moved our family to the country, where we homeschooled them and postponed personal electronics until their teen years. Nearly…

…a home run in these two or three weeks is with a concept often called Morning Time. Some teachers will call it Circle Time, and some homeschoolers call it the…

…has been a marked increase in homeschooling during the past year’s school closures, as well as a huge uptick in positive attitudes towards homeschooling. Parents who are now fleeing online…

…solution? The answer is to think bigger. Conservatives spent most of the 2010s promoting school choice. Charter schools, open enrollment, easier homeschooling. All this was done in the name of…

…the civilization of the home, as well as to those schools that still support the higher and permanent things, is so gravely critical. Whereas at one time, homeschooling could reasonably…

…school, or in a learning pod during the pandemic are still school-aged and need reliable and consistent education.  It is significant, then, that the switch from homeschooling and private schools…

…service clubs, dramatic performances, [and] literary publications.” Despite the district’s obvious disdain for charter schools and its onerous requirements for homeschool students, Pennsylvania law requires school districts to make extracurricular…

…own kids. I’m a happy homeschool graduate who only set foot in public schools to take driver’s ed. The resulting drudgery-free education is something few foreign countries allow for their…

…very compelling idea. Everyone’s Expectations Are Wrong You see, our daughter is smart; really smart. Because we had homeschooled her after third grade through high school, and we had taken…

…meme or two to mark their relief come end of summer. I understand that decision, because the alternative is difficult. Homeschooling is mentally and financially taxing. Private school may be…

My family recently completed our final year of homeschooling. It was a 20-year journey that began when my first child entered elementary school and ended when my last child entered…

…homeschooling as an alternative to handing our children over to schools that are too cowardly to tolerate National Guard t-shirts because of a gun silhouette and too narrow-minded to even…

…especially in the realm of ideas, as revealed by today’s legal and other attacks on Christian colleges, Christian associations and clubs, Christian schools, Christian students, and Christian homeschooling. These are…

…why his family decided to homeschool after discovering their local school district would remain closed for months and what implications prolonged virtual learning may have for the school choice movement….

…to my family’s Catholic beliefs, and teach an understanding of America and its history that I interpret as anathema to our nation’s political and cultural preservation. Despite homeschooling my children,…

…pull her children out of the public schools in Alexandria in favor of private and homeschooling, and she encouraged other parents who feel trapped in school districts that have betrayed…

…its spine among the stacks. As my children grew, I would take them to Barnes and Noble, picking out favorite books or grabbing gifts for friends. When I started homeschooling,…

…which also smeared homeschooling parents as child abusers and denounced the pro-life movement as contributing to “the subjugation of women,” ended with a totalitarian plea that “Children aren’t private property,…

With school starting just this week for so many schools across the country, more students than ever will be in charter, private, or homeschool classrooms rather than traditional public schools….