Homeschooling: A Family’s Journey

These factors affect everyone, but some of them affect homeschoolers more than most. For example, because so many homeschoolers are entrepreneurial, we weigh a state’s entrepreneurship climate somewhat more heavily than other “Best Places to Live” rankings in the popular press. See the spreadsheets for info on all of the factors used and how the states rank on each factor.

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As readers of Homeschooling: a Family’s Journey may recall, we have always paid close attention to the relationship between homeschooling, economics, and lifestyle. The global financial crisis that began shortly after publication of our book led us attempt to identify the best places to live for homeschoolers. The reason was simple: income was uncertain [...]

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The school systems in CA had been faltering even before the financial crisis. They were faltering because the operated on the same Rust Belt model as the auto companies and the other big, uncompetitive, obsolete institutions that we now see failing all around us… Homeschoolers have built a new model. The homeschooling model builds social capital in co-ops and other grass-roots organizations. The homeschooling model makes excellent and effective use of technology. The homeschooling model is economically efficient, spending far less per pupil than school systems…If the financial crisis breaks the backs of the interest groups that have exploted school budgets for their own economic advantage, and leads to approaches more like homeschooling, it will prove to be a salutary example of what Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter called “Creative Destruction” and the country will be better for it.

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Monday, April 20, will mark the 10th anniversary of the Columbine High School massacre, in which two students killed twelve students and a teacher and wounded twenty-three others before killing themselves
Why? 
Early news reports said that they were maladjusted loners.  But then the U.S. Secret Service and the U.S. Department of Education collaborated in [...]

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We are thrilled to be part of this week’s Carnival of Homeschooling, but have been so busy following the links from the other posts on the blog midway that we haven’t taken time (til now) to pick our favorites. Here they are so far:
Janice Campbell hosts the Carnival of Homeschooling this week. We really enjoyed [...]

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