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The Old Schoolhouse® - A privately held corporation that publishes the industry-leading homeschool education print magazine, The Old Schoolhouse® Magazine, as well as hundreds of books and planning support tools for homeschooling families. SchoolhouseTeachers.com, a division of The Old Schoolhouse® Magazine, supports over 7,000 member families, with more than 400 courses for preschool through high school, as well as educational videos, World Book Online, transcripts, report cards, planning tools, and recordkeeping. Established in 2001, The Old Schoolhouse® Magazine is focused on providing high-quality, encouraging, affordable solutions for homeschooling families.
A Guide to Online Homeschooling - A resource for students and families
considering homeschooling, building a curriculum and philosophy, and
transitioning to college as a homeschooled student. The decision to homeschool a
child is complex, and the reasons for home education are as varied as the people
who choose it. Once considered the province of religious, rural, and white
families, homeschooling is now more diverse. Although white students are more
likely to be homeschooled than nonwhite students, 72% of homeschooled students
live in urban areas, according to the National
Center for Education Statistics (NCES). When asked in a
national survey why they choose to homeschool their children, parents cited
several different reasons that range well beyond the traditional perceptions of
homeschooling families.
BeginningHomeschooling.com is a service of the National
Alliance of Christian Home Education Leadership (the
Alliance). The Alliance is a non-profit organization founded
in 2002 to support Christian statewide home education
organizations. The Alliance represents 48 affiliate
organizations from 45 states, Canada, and Mexico, and has
over 1,000 years of cumulative homeschooling experience.
The best way to begin your homeschool journey is by
contacting your state or provincial organization. Christian
homeschool organizations serve families all year long by
providing state-specific information, support and
encouragement, information on local resources, annual
events, and a watchful eye for legal issues.
Home
School Legal Defense Association
is a nonprofit advocacy organization established to defend
and advance the constitutional right of parents to direct
the education of their children and to protect family
freedoms. Through annual memberships, HSLDA is tens of
thousands of families united in service together, providing
a strong voice when and where needed. HSLDA's mission is to
protect the freedom of all homeschoolers. Although our
officers and directors are Christians, HSLDA membership is
open to all homeschoolers. We trust and respect parents to
make the right choices for the upbringing of their children.
We have no agenda to make all public and home-based
classrooms religious or conservative. Our primary objective
is to preserve the fundamental right of parents to choose
home education, free of over-zealous government officials
and intrusive laws. We do put on a national conference
annually and invite the board members of state organizations
with whom we have worked for many years. Most, if not all,
of those organizations have Christian leaders, but many
serve all homeschoolers regardless of religious affiliation,
as we do.
K12
Online Home Schooling
for Parents & Home Schooling
backed by former Education Secretary William Bennett.
From exceptional online courses, to blended online/classroom
school programs, to full-time online public and private
school programs. K12 has become the largest provider of
online learning for grades K-12, because we know better than
anyone else how to build engaging curriculum that blends
online and offline learning experiences. We also enable
differentiated instruction down to the individual level,
rooted in decades of educational research.
Micro-School Networks
Expand Learning Options (Prenda) The neighborhood school
reimagined In-home microschools led by inspiring mentors. A
blend between homeschooling and private schooling,
micro-schools retain the curriculum freedom and schedule
flexibility characteristic of homeschooling. (See
How Micro-School Networks Expand Learning Options at
Foundation for Economic Education)
Homeschool Resources for Special Needs Students - A
comprehensive homeschooling guide for parents of special
needs children Filled with helpful resources and
information. Our goal is to inform parents and students
about critical information regarding their homeschooling or
distance education and share different resources that will
help set them up for success. Our Resources for Homeschool
and Distance Learning for Students With Special Needs guide
offers in-depth information in several areas, including: How
to choose a homeschool curriculum * Important definitions
that outline what special needs means in a school context *
Advantages and disadvantages of homeschooling and distance
learning * Some fun learning activities and tools parents
can incorporate into their lesson plans * Homeschool
organizations that offer further resources
College Guide for Homeschool Students - offers in depth
information in several areas, including: Steps homeschool
students should take in order to get into college. Tips for
how homeschool students can find right the college. How
homeschool students can navigate the admissions process.
Tips on managing the social transition to college.
Alternative educational pathways for homeschool students.
Teacher Aid Education Resources
Christian Educators Association International CEAI is a leader in promoting the rights of religious persons in public education.
English Grammar - Comprehensive English grammar resource. Here you’ll learn all aspects of the English written language, enabling you to improve your writing skills in both personal and formal communications. Free daily English grammar lessons and exercises
Homeschooling Parents Set Their Own Course Despite Slow-Moving Government
- By Teresa Mull (8/12/2016) - Whatever their particular reasons, a diverse set of homeschooling parents across the nation all have one thing in common: They’re dissatisfied with the status quo, and they’re innovating where the system is failing them. And what homeschooling parents are doing is working. NHERI reports, “The home-educated typically score 15 to 30 percentile points above public-school students on standardized academic achievement tests.” Another recent study shows homeschool students score higher than the national average on the SAT, and NBC reports“many colleges seeking to diversify their student bodies are welcoming them with open arms.”
Why Urban, Educated Parents Are Turning to DIY Education
- They raise chickens. They grow vegetables. They knit. Now a new generation of
urban parents is even teaching their own kids. ...We think of homeschoolers as
evangelicals or off-the-gridders who spend a lot of time at kitchen tables in
the countryside. And it’s true that most homeschooling parents do so for moral
or religious reasons. But education observers believe that is changing. ...Many
of these parents feel that city schools—or any schools—don’t provide the kind of
education they want for their kids. Just as much, though, their choice to
homeschool is a more extreme example of a larger modern parenting ethos: that
children are individuals, each deserving a uniquely curated upbringing. That
peer influence can be noxious. (Bullying is no longer seen as a harmless rite of
passage.) That DIY—be it gardening, knitting, or raising chickens—is something
educated urbanites should embrace. That we might create a sense of security in
our kids by practicing “attachment parenting,” an increasingly popular approach
that involves round-the-clock physical contact with children and immediate
responses to all their cues.
...Says Rebecca Wald, a Baltimore homeschooler,
“Once we had a child and I realized how fun it was to see her discover stuff
about the world, I thought, why would I want to let a teacher have all that
fun?” It’s 12:30 p.m. on a Thursday, and Tera and her daughters have arrived
home from a rehearsal of a homeschoolers’ production of Alice in Wonderland.
Their large green Craftsman is typical Seattle. There are kayaks in the garage,
squash in the slow cooker, and the usual paraphernalia of girlhood: board games,
dolls, craft kits. Next to the kitchen phone is a printout of the day’s
responsibilities. Daisy and Ginger spend about two hours daily in formal
lessons, including English and math; today they’ve also got history, piano, and
sewing.
...he Schreiber girls spend most of their
time out and about, typically at activities arranged for homeschoolers. There
are Girl Scouts and ceramics and book club and enrichment classes and park
outings arranged by the Seattle Homeschool Group, a secular organization whose
membership has grown from 30 families to 300 over the last decade. In a way,
urban homeschooling can feel like an intensified version of the extracurricular
madness that is the hallmark of any contemporary middle-class family, or it can
feel like one big, awesome field trip. Institutions throughout the country have
discovered a reliable weekday customer in urban homeschoolers. “Everywhere you
turn there’s a co-op or a class or a special exhibit,” says Brian Ray, founder
of the National Home Education Research Institute in Oregon. Three years ago,
the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago began to court homeschoolers with
free admission, their own newsletters, and courses designed specifically for
them. Participation has doubled each year. “The more we offer, the more we sell
out,” says Andrea Ingram, vice president of education and guest services.
...Still, you can’t help but wonder whether there’s a cost to all this family
togetherness. There are the moms, of course, who for two decades have their
lives completely absorbed by their children’s. But the mothers I got to know
seem quite content with that, and clearly seem to be having fun getting together
with each other during their kids’ activities. And the kids? There’s concern
that having parents at one’s side throughout childhood can do more harm than
good. Psychologist Wendy Mogel, the author of the bestselling book The Blessing
of a Skinned Knee, admires the way homeschoolers manage to “give their children
a childhood” in an ultracompetitive world. Yet she wonders how kids who spend so
much time within a deliberately crafted community will learn to work with people
from backgrounds nothing like theirs. She worries, too, about eventual teenage
rebellion in families that are so enmeshed. Typical urban homeschooled kids do
tend to find the space they need by the time they reach those teenage years,
participating independently in a wealth of activities. That’s just as well for
their parents, who by that time can often use a breather. And it has made them
more appealing to colleges, which have grown more welcoming as they find that
homeschoolers do fine academically. In some ways these students may arrive at
college more prepared, as they’ve had practice charting their own intellectual
directions, though parents say they sometimes bristle at having to suffer
through courses and professors they don’t like. Tera figures that her daughters
are out in the world enough to interact with all sorts of people. She feels
certain they will be able to be good citizens precisely because of her and
Eric’s “forever style of parenting,” as she calls it, not in spite of it.
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