Homeschooling: A Family’s Journey

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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An oldish article from the Economist.   Lots of parents stress out about getting their kids into good preschools.  Turns out this may be the worst thing for their long-term education.  
Dimming: Disturbing Evidence of a Decline in Youngsters’ Brainpower
 Both sexes now do worse than before, but boys’ scores have fallen more, suggesting that a [...]

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When I was applying to college I considered Rutgers, the NJ state school, in part because I qualified in test scores and GPA for their merit scholarship. I soon discovered that these were only available for school kids (public and private). I knew a couple of homeschooled kids who dealt with this issue–one of them [...]

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Although research shows that homeschooling gives children a better education than public schools, many families think that they can’t afford it. They worry about losing the paycheck of the parent who stays home to homeschool the kids. But giving up that paycheck could be a smart money move. Here are three reasons why.

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In economic terms, a large part of the cost of homeschooling is opportunity cost — the amount a homeschooling parent can earn in the job market. Combine a lower opportunity cost with an increasingly undesirable public school alternative, and homeschooling becomes a much more attractive economic proposition. Click the “Resources” tab at the top of this page for information on free homeschooling resources. You can cut costs without sacrificing the quality of your homeschool curriculum.

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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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New York’s Village Voice finds homeschooling getting more popular among the city’s African Americans:
In the 2006–2007 school year, the city’s Department of Education says that 3,654 students in New York were homeschooled. Most are white, but a growing number are African-American. Black parents tend to take their children out of the schools for other than [...]

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