
Home Education Magazine Wonderful new blog from Linda Dobson:
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One of our strongest and most respected voices for homeschooling, our longest running HEM columnist and the author of many of homeschooling’s most beloved books, steps out on a new path for families with a new blog titled Parent at the Helm:

Home Education Magazine Wednesday's the deadline to answer the Jan-Feb issue's Question and Answers:
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Deadline is Nov. 25th for replies to these questions, which will run in the January-February issue of Home Education Magazine. You can reply to either or both questions in the comments section below:

Dr. Yvonne Fournier answering questions from a homeschooling family which moved to a testing state. Some highlights about the inherent tension between homeschooling and achievement tests: Hassle-Free Homework: Achievement Tests Contribute To America’s Decline By Dr. Yvonne Fournier, U.S. ...

Home Education Magazine 'Secrets of a Buccaneer-Scholar' describes “…how I found success in a highly technical field without the benefit or burden of a conventional education.”
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The Nov-Dec issue features an interview with James Marcus Bach, who writes of being “dedicated to a certain lifestyle of mind. I call it intellectual buccaneering. I call myself a buccaneer-scholar. Just ...

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In the November-December issue of Home Education Magazine our featured writers address homeschooling children of different ages, helping children become interested in and respectful of the natural world, ...

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Homeschool support groups and the individuals who build networks between homeschooling families are the glue which holds the homeschooling community together. Through their newsletters, conferences, websites, ...

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“When our kids were younger, Ken and I had a long discussion that really boiled down to this question: Where do you want the sandbox?

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As teenagers, our kids seldom did grammar exercises and never wrote reports and term papers. According to some in the educational establishment, they ought to be poor writers. Not so. Both got “A’s” in their college freshmen English classes. ...

Homeschoolers compete in a lot of different kinds of contests: From the Lincoln County Record, Pioche, NV – Established September 12, 1870 Panaca’s Cookie Crumb Trail Contest By Angela Musser The Christmas Tree Ornament Contest for Panaca’s Town Tree is now open to public and home school stude...

Nothing directly impacting homeschoolers yet, but.. But what really? There are powerful forces at play with a vested interest in the institution of education...

Home Education Magazine Can't load the classic original cartoon image here, but it's worth a click to see:
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“If the state took our children from us when they were 5 or 6 and fed them until they were 16, giving them nothing but potato chips, we know what we’d do. We’d fight. We’d sue. We’d do anything we had to do to get them the nourishment their lives depend on

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Every day now I spend many hours driving to work. This leaves me with as many hours to reflect, to think, to feel. The subject so often on my thoughts and in my heart is exactly that which I have so recently left behind — my family. ...

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Arithmetic, computation or mathematics … no matter what it’s called in school, the subject often adds up in a child’s mind as plain old boring. Kindergarten worksheets display clusters of objects for children to color and count. ...














