Check out this week’s blog carnival with some great submissions from all around the homeschooling community. Can be read here: … Continue Reading
Category Archives: Motivational
Homeschooling Goes Mainstream and Here’s Why
Studies show homeschooled kids, on average, are better educated than public school children. Susan Schaefer from the East Hampton-Portland Patch wrote this article about her encounter with a homeschooling mom and daughter in a Panera. The encounter is eye opening not only for Ms. Schaefer, a former school teacher, but also for all of us to… Continue Reading
Achiever | Homeschooled teen aces ACT
Written by Elaine Rooker Jack Article first published on Courier-Journal.com Taking the ACT in April kicked off a period of intensity for high school junior Connor Brooks: big tests, big speeches, vacation, and SAT subject tests. But he started it with a bang. The 17-year-old who’s been homeschooled his entire academic career, scored a 36 on… Continue Reading
Homeschooling Goes To College
Thanks to Kristen Blair, N.C. Education Alliance Fellow, for allowing me to publish this article. RALEIGH — Twenty years ago homeschooling was relegated to the fringes of K-12 education — the spurned stepchild in a newly blended family of schooling options. Today homeschooling is a credible, viable educational choice that is garnering respect, even admiration,… Continue Reading
Homeschool Domination Infographic
Comparing Homeschooling versus Public Schooling Created by: CollegeAtHome.com… Continue Reading
Sir Ken Robinson: Bring on the learning revolution!
Homeschoolers already have been, but thanks for joining the party! From TED: In this poignant, funny follow-up to his fabled 2006 talk, Sir Ken Robinson makes the case for a radical shift from standardized schools to personalized learning — creating conditions where kids’ natural talents can flourish. This seems a lot like a good reason to homeschool.… Continue Reading
Reasons to not homeschool that are actually misconceptions about homeschooling.
Reason to not homeschool #1: You are not qualified to homeschool your child If you are planning on homeschool your children up to high school and someone questions your qualifications I would take that as an insult and I would let them know. Yes, elementary teachers have to be certified and take classes. However, teachers… Continue Reading
The Worst Reason to Homeschool
Inspiring words One of the things I love about writing is when I read something in the news or on another blog and it inspires me so much that I have to stop everything and write about it myself. That’s what happened when I read an article by Jaime on the Simple Homeschool blog about… Continue Reading
An analogy comparing Public School vs. Homeschooling and which is better for your children
Michael Phelps I was commenting on the homeschooling blog Throwing Marshmallows (love that name) and I wrote something that I felt warranted its own post in terms of comparing Public Schooling and Homeschooling. In her post she was discussing how Michael Phelps struggled in school with behavior and focus and was just “one of… Continue Reading
Interesting infographic of how homeschool students compare to public school students
Check out this very interesting infographic comparing homeschool students to both public and private schools. What numbers that stood out to me was not the higher scores of the students but rather the education level of most of the parents. If your compared these levels of education to the national average home school parents are far more… Continue Reading
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