Saturday, March 20, 2004
Schoolhouse rocked
No longer just for the religious fundamentalists, home schooling has gone main stream, especially in Massachusetts. It's estimated that as many as 20,000 children here have abandoned test-crazy public schools and high-priced private schools for the comfort of the living room couch. But most surprising of all is that Harvard, BU, Brown, and other colleges are welcoming home-schoolers like all other students.
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Friday, March 19, 2004
Home is where the school is: A study in trends in home schooling
Rodney and Rebekah King�s five children surround the kitchen table � each busy at their tasks. At one end of the table, 9-year-old Alessandro practices his handwriting while his sisters � 6-year-old Victoria and 5-year-old Maria � choose crayons for their coloring books. At the other end, 10-year-old Evander and 11-year-old Rodney Jr. study textbooks as they work on their penmanship.
School is in session again at the King household.
The Orr family is one of a growing number of Minnesotans that are choosing to school their children at home. According to the state Department of Education, 16,300 students across Minnesota are now being home schooled, or about 1 percent of all students. The number has been growing steadily since 1987-88 when 2,322 of the state�s children were being home schooled.
Read more...Posted by gary at 3/19/2004 08:38:00 AM | 0 comments
Home-school sports proposal rejected by South Carolina High School League
The South Carolina High School League�s legislative assembly overwhelmingly rejected a proposal Thursday that would have allowed home-schooled children to play public school sports.
Home-school supporters, however, predicted the next battleground would be the state legislature.
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Thursday, March 18, 2004
Homeschooling Mom Publishes Mother-Daughter Mentoring Guide
Bob and Shelley Noonan are the third generation of the Noonan family that have lived and worked on a grain farm in Northeast Nebraska. Through the heartaches and hardships of life on the farm, God molded and guided them both in the direction of homeschooling their three children for the past thirteen years. The experience of those years has lead Shelley to publish a book to help others raise Godly daughters.
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Statewide prom for homeschoolers
In an effort to close the gap on the socialization myth, California Homeschoolers today are announcing plans for a statewide homeschool prom scheduled for this April. At present, there are an estimated 800,000 to 1.2 million homeschoolers in the U.S., and the number is growing.
Read more...Posted by gary at 3/18/2004 07:37:00 AM | 0 comments
Haddonfield NJ BOE approves pilot home-school program
The Haddonfield Board of Education last week approved a pilot program that involved home-schooled students participating in extracurricular activities.
Under the program home-schooled students can participate in elementary bands and orchestras, and any middle school activity that is deemed 'non-athletic' and that does not require participation during the school day.
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Wednesday, March 17, 2004
Soap Lake speller gives it all to God
Andrew Kaleohano, 12, holds onto his dictionary prize for placing first in the North Central Washington Spelling Bee on Friday. �����Andrew Kaleohano murmured a little prayer before spelling the award-clinching word at the North Central Washington Spelling Bee.
He asked to win, but only if it was God's will.
The Soap Lake seventh-grader placed first in regional competition in Chelan on Friday. But it doesn't end there. Andrew will compete against students nationwide and internationally from June 1-3 in Washington, D.C.
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SC Home school students hope for chance to play on public school sports teams
(Lexington) March 16, 2004 - The Midlands Home School Resource Cross-Country team thinks they have what it takes to compete.
They have determination, a coach and even some Gatorade. The only thing they're missing is actual competition.
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Posted by gary at 3/17/2004 07:17:00 AM | 0 comments
Tuesday, March 16, 2004
Expert Hails Home Schooling As American Family's Great Hope
(AgapePress) - An expert on the family is crediting the home schooling movement with helping to re-establish the traditional family in the United States.
Dr. Allan Carlson of the Howard Center for Family, Religion, and Society, is offering high praise for the home schoolers of the nation. Carlson says the American family was being eroded by feminism, no-fault divorce, and the growth of day-care. But then, he says, along came the home schooling movement and much of that has started to change.
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Monday, March 15, 2004
Homeschool student wins Alabama spelling bee
BIRMINGHAM ---- Laura Ann Brown had eyed the state spelling bee title for some time. 'Poliomyelitis' finally brought the prize home.
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New regulations prompt complaints from NY home-schooled students
ALBANY, N.Y. -- State education officials say they are trying to provide more ways for home-schooled students to prove their worthiness for college, but advocates for the estimated 25,000 youths being educated at home in New York argue that proposed new regulations fail to correct injustices and may make them worse.
At issue is the state's decision last year to begin enforcing rules that students have to have a high school diploma or its equivalent to get into public colleges. For home-schooled students already matriculating at SUNY, CUNY or at community colleges, the diploma requirement must be met for them to remain on track to get degrees.
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Sunday, March 14, 2004
The Home School Revolution: Towards Rational Education
Most people agree there has been a severe decline in the moral character and quality of our population. Most still in the dating pool will tell you there is a shortage of marriageable mates. Employers will tell you there is a shortage of employable employees � including many that can�t even read or write. Professors will tell you there is a lack of serious students. People put the blame on all sorts of places, but usually fail to ask: what are we being taught?
In the latter half of the 20th century, the education system has been influenced heavily by one man: John Dewey, father of �Progressive Education.�
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Home-schooled Eighth-grader wins county spelling bee
EAST PEORIA - The spelling style that home-schooled Samuel Vigue has developed over the last four years earned the eighth-grader his first appearance in the central Illinois spelling bee finals, the last step before national competition.
Each time a word was presented by pronouncer Mike Dimmick on Friday, Vigue asked the limit of three questions: for the word to be used in a sentence and its definition, as well as its origin or whether there was an alternate pronunciation.
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