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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When the teacher is in the home, children learn better.  When tests are puzzle games, children excel. Who’d have expected to read this in the NY Times:
AS Department of Education officials consider how best to spend billions from the economic stimulus plan, they would be wise to pay attention to which programs actually help children’s [...]

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It’s April 15 — dies irae, tax day. But many school teachers will be able to smile at least a little as they take a $250 deduction for what they might have spent on school supplies and such. If you’re new to homeschooling, you may wonder whether you can, too. The [...]

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As Artemus Ward said, “It ain’t so much the things we don’t know that get us into trouble. It’s the things we do know that just ain’t so.”

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