Features
Homeschoolers Threaten Our Cultural Comfort By Sonny Scott
(Viewpoints)
You see them at the grocery, or in a discount store.
It's a big family by today's standards - "just like stair steps," as the old folks say. Freshly scrubbed boys with neatly trimmed hair and girls with braids, in clean but unfashionable clothes follow mom through the store as she fills her no-frills shopping list. Read more...
Homeschool Experience:Dump Truck Days By Jennifer Fink
For three days, my nine-year old son has been dragging himself around the house in a toy dump truck. He kneels in the dumper, hunches forward and uses his knuckles to propel himself. For three days. Around and around. Over and over. Three days, and it’s driving me crazy! Read more ...
Homeschooling: Parents Must Decide by Shirley M.R. Minster, MS. Ed.
Wherever parents send their children is where the children will assume it’s best for them to be. Parents who do not take the time to think through the type of educational program they want for their children miss out on an integral decision for their children. Read more ...
|
|
Royal Academy
Each Royal Academy program is individually designed around the strengths, interests, and unique qualities of each student and their family.
Parents choose Royal Academy because they desire an educational experience which encourages and stimulates their children to strive for the best in all areas of academic life. Students appreciate this solid yet flexible approach because it gives them the opportunity to explore personal interest areas in-depth.
Read more...
|
|
|
HomeEducators
WorldPoints® Reward
MasterCard
Apply Today
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
In the News
June 23, 2009
When it comes to social networking, we're all homeschoolers
by Lisa Hoover (Computer World Blogs)
Ironically, as a homeschooling mother of three boys scarcely a day goes by that I don't see a reference to how homeschooled children are at risk for becoming socially disadvantaged because they aren't in a formal school setting with their peers. Fair enough but, as parents of homeschoolers often point out, our kids have a whole buffet of social opportunities to choose from that teach them how to interact with others. Read more...
Stop the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child Treaty
The CRC gives this Committee an unlimited mandate to dictate the affairs of a nation regarding child rearing. The Committee’s reach will extend into demanding changes to a country's legal system, education system, and social-welfare institutions in order to bring the country’s laws into compliance with the Convention. Read more...
UN Treaty Jeopardizes Homeschool Freedom in Britain
Contact: Rebekah Pizana, ParentalRights.org, 540-751-1200
MEDIA ADVISORY, June 23 /Christian Newswire/ -- British homeschoolers may no longer be able to teach independently. Children's Secretary of Britain accepted a report in full last week that could change the face of homeschooling in Britain indefinitely. In the report, the author, Graham Badman, Chair of the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (BECTA), argues for an end to homeschool freedom.
"While it's disgraceful that the British government would even entertain this report it's particularly troubling for American parents because the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) was used as the justification for this action," Read more...
Current Issue
Homeschoolers, What Does Success Mean To You? by Judy Aron
David Brooks, senior editor of The Weekly Standard, once posed this question: "If your kid was accepted at Harvard, but you secretly thought he or she would be happier at Bennington, would you have the guts to turn Harvard down?" This to me is a really intriguing question, as it highlights the very reasons why we homeschool. Read more...
What Kind of Homeschooler Are You? by Barbara Frank
It’s interesting how people categorize themselves. When I began homeschooling, there were homeschoolers. Before long, they morphed into two groups: Christian homeschoolers and secular homeschoolers. Over the years we’ve seen a transition into homeschoolers defining themselves by their method of homeschooling: traditional, unschooler, Charlotte Mason method, etc. Read more...
By the Cover: Finding Books Your Child Will Read
When Apple introduced the first iMac computer, I bought one. I had no idea how much disk space it came with, or how much RAM it had. Frankly, I didn’t care. It was small and blue; I loved it for that. Let’s face it appearances sell. And when it comes to young readers, the same is true for books. Read more...
Book Corner
Midnight Rider for the Morning Star by Mark Alan Leslie is the remarkable story of Francis Asbury. The first chapter begins in Maine when Asbury is galloping for his life over the Scarborough marshes. This is a true story of high adventure about a man who traveled mainly by horseback from Quebec to Georgia spreading the gospel wherever he went. Read the Critical Reviews ...
|
