Homeschooling: A Family’s Journey

Homeschooling delivers a superior education that does not depend on owning pricey real estate in a rare, good school district.  Break the two-income trap!
From the NY Times:
ROBERT H. FRANK An economics professor at the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University.
WHY do many middle-class families now struggle to get by on two [...]

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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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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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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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Insight into (British) government’s perspective on education. It’s disturbing that forcing 16-18 year olds back into school is Gordon Brown’s knee-jerk response to worries about hordes of unemployed and under-educated teens roaming the streets. The article cites a study by King College researcher Alison Wolf that finds these under-educated teens are making a sound financial [...]

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Some of the biggest battleground states in this election are also among the biggest homeschooling states, such as Florida, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia. So, it’s probably worth noting that a lot of homeschoolers are liberal Democrats, and their party is kissing them off.

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Barry Lynn, host of the radio show Culture Shocks interviewed us today. In a forty minute segment, Lynn disputed the notion that people can homeschool without teaching credentials, insisted that public schools are doing just fine for most kids, and challenged homeschoolers who don’t like something about their school system to stay in the system and change it instead of homeschooling.

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The California appeals court that, in February, ruled that parents do not have a right to homeschool reversed itself today and unanimously ruled that they do. One attorney close to the case phoned us today and said with relief:
“The unthinkable has happened — we won. Private homeschooling is on a better footing [...]

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Sometimes it’s just good to be alive. First, I read last week about graphic novels profiling the candidates, i.e. comic books by some of the top artists depicting McCain and Obama as superheroes: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/herocomplex/2008/07/mccain-and-obam.html
Now we have Dover’s paperdolls:
http://store.doverpublications.com/by-subject-mccain—obama-election-paper-dolls.html
Does this bridge the gender gap or create one? At least we can’t say that we [...]

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Earlier this year, a California appellate court ruled that parents without teaching credentials had no right to homeschool in that state, then, a few weeks later, vacated the decision and said it would re-hear the case. With the rehearing scheduled for June 23, suspense is building over what the court intends to [...]

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