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An annual report released by the North Carolina Department of Administration's Division of Non-Public Education says the state had a record total of 38,367 home schools for the 2007-2008 school year serving 71,566 students statewide.
The numbers represent an educational system that has grown steadily since the state began allowing home-schooling in 1985. Read more...
About the school
# No tests, grades, report cards or mandatory classes.
# Staff will not judge student work unless asked.
# Students will be offered a menu of courses, contacts, guest speakers and off-site activities.
# Students will choose their own schedules and activities.
# School will be run like a democracy with students and staff having equal vote in school decisions like setting rules.
# Students are not separated by age. Read more...
Labels: homeschool, unschool
If the word "homeschooling" drudges up images of denim jumpers and rural living, then you haven't met Rom Impas and Stacy Lewis. Rom and Stacy homeschool their two sons, Orlando, 5, and Mica, 21 months, right here in Seattle's Leschi neighborhood. Read more...
Hello home educators! Welcome to the NBTS edition of carnival of homeschooling. Today, we are celebrating our non-adherance to the traditional school year by lightly poking fun at those who do. Right this way to the bus stop... Read more...
It's a small plastic thing, resembling a guitar in basic appearance only.
But Blake Peebles brings energy to the room when he slides the strap over his skinny shoulder and steps atop the wooden box that serves as a stage.
As the music begins, Blake quickly presses buttons on the guitar in time to a speed-metal tune blasting from the giant TV. It is an odd sensation, to watch a young man control the sounds of a rock song with a toy instrument, but this is "Guitar Hero," one of the most popular video game franchises in recent memory. Blake is one of the better players in the country. Read more...
"These people know that they're not doing anything wrong, and they're following their consciences to educate their children at home -- and they're doing a very good job of it," he contends. "And they're [going to] fight this. They're [going to] appeal this. They've got lawyers and they're going to take this as far as they can," says Donnelly.
However, Donnelly reports that the prospects of winning are very, very slim. "The German state has continued to make it difficult for parents who want to home school their children," he adds. "In fact, they persecute them by fining them thousands of dollars, and in this case try to put them in jail. In other cases they take the children away." Read more...
Homeschooling parents in the nation's capitol must now be approved by the state board each year in order to be allowed to teach their children.
If parents fail to meet a new list of requirements drafted by the Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE), they could lose their right to homeschool until changes are made. Read more...
Homeschooling families are everywhere these days. They’re on television, giving interviews after winning national spelling bees. They’re in the paper, profiled after making Olympic trials. They’re on the radio, talking about the growing popularity of homeschooling as an educational choice.
And they’re definitely in your library.
According to a 2003 study by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), when homeschoolers were asked about their primary source of books and/or curriculum, 78 percent named their public library. Read more...
Labels: homeschool
I know I'm always curious about the unique ways parents have found to home-school their children. Coming from diverse geographical and ethnic traditions, so many families have carved out unusual pathways to learning.
One Internet blog describes the everyday adventures of one such family. At http:// lapazfarm.homeschooljournal.net, you'll find the online journal of a Fairbanks, Alaska, family (identified only by first names and nicknames, perhaps to maintain privacy) Read more...
In case you were wondering what happens to all those letters that kids mail every Christmas addressed to Santa: North Pole, Mrs. Claus as second in command sorts and helps Santa answer them. And now she's published, "Mrs. Claus Explains it All", using this bright and lively large hard-cover picture book to answer some of the most common questions they receive every year. Read more...
In this egg-citing new series Humpty Dumpty Jr. is a wise cracking trench coat sporting detective. He's the egg to call when you need help cause he always "cracks" the case. His office walls in New Yolk City are framed with notes of thanks and awards for his previously solved cases. We got the three little pigs thanking him for saving their bacon, and a Royal Proclamation from Dorothy granting him Emerald Knight of Oz status. Read more...
Rime to Read is a virtual reading program for beginner readings. It consists of 20 books that use "rime" (words that rhyme and look alike, such as sit, hit, lit). Only single syllable short vowels are introduced, along with 46 popular sight words. The books can be read on-line, or printed out, or both. It is a very convenient method for those who have young learners that are just starting on their reading pathways. Read more...
When I was making my way through my own pregnancies, I was never far from the essential “What to Expect When You’re Expecting” manual to guide me from stage to stage. So when I was presented with an opportunity to review this parody I thought it might be fun. Read more...
Molly, a Jewish girl, and her family have moved to America from Russia. Her mother says that the reason was to escape religious persecution and find freedom. First they lived in a tenement house in New York and Papa worked in a factory. Then they came to Winter Hill where Papa works in Mr. Brodsky's store and they live in the apartment above. However, the children in Molly's third-grade class make fun of her accent and clothes. Molly even thinks about going back to Russia. Read more...