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Richard A. Boyd, former Mississippi superintendent of education claims homeschooling won’t work in Mississippi. He cites demographics apparently from the recent NHERI Study . Boyd, writing to the Jackson Clarion-Ledger, looked at the research promoted by the homeschooling movement itself. It shows, according to Boyd, that almost all homeschooled children are in married-couple families (98 percent); most homeschool mothers don’t work outside the home (81 percent); and most homeschool parents h

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Homeschooling can’t educate the masses?

The Carnival of Homeschooling #197 is hosted this week at Walking Therein . She shares a lot of insight into how they teach their own. Jacque is also hosting the Homesteading Carnival this week. Carnival of Homeschooling How Did October Get Here So Quickly? All of a sudden school officially started, the leaves started turning orange and red, and the temperatures dropped too cold for and Indiana Fall. I surely don’t know how time flies by us so quickly, but I am already longing for warmer tem

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Carnival of Homeschooling: Our Home School

I get emails all the time asking me to mention things on this site. Sometimes, they’re worth telling you about. A few came along recently. Free Printables A website filled with Free Printables : Calendars, Cards, Worksheets, Games, Puzzles, etc. Hey, it’s free. Check it out . Nick Hotel I’ve never been to a Nickelodeon Hotel but it sounds like a good off-season deal

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Some Homeschool Deals

Via NaplesNews.com Florida. Soon, kids from across Collier County will be back in school. Back to dragging themselves out of bed at an ungodly hour. Back to riding on the big yellow bus. Back to pencils, books and teacher’s dirty looks. The Sands sisters – Rhianna, 16, Jennifer, 14, Jessica, 11, Cassidy, 5, and Miranda, 3 – will also be going back to school.

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Homeschooling six daughters

New Life Christian helps kids who ‘fall through cracks’ Sue Ewing discovered her greatest gift lies in problem-solving and designing homeschool curriculum. She helps students who struggle to learn with New Life Christian School. She and husband Thom Ewing founded a homeschool for their daughter Amy and son Jesse in 1986 while living in Indianapolis. By 1990, they accepted outside students who needed the environment to succeed. Read more…

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Homeschooling leads to helping others’ children

Monsters, government-controlled assassinations and mysterious cops aren’t on the minds of most teenagers, but they are Jonathan Creasy’s passion. Jonathan, 16, is a homeschooled up-and-coming writer from Maryville. His writings have sparked quite the following. “I started out writing on a homeschool blog, but it had no traffic,” said Jonathan. So he moved to one of the most populated Web sites on the Internet, Facebook. Once he began posting his writings there, people of all ages started to pa

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Welcome to the LOLCATS edition of carnival of homeschooling. Above: an early and very famous lolcat If you never heard of lolcats, I intend to enlighten you using examples to introduce topics. The name lolcats comes from the Latin “lol” (which has been co-opted by internet geeks to stand for “laugh out loud”) and “cats” which is Middle English for “cats.” Lolcats aren’t always cats but usually picture some expressive or bizarre animal with a funny caption. As you will notice the s

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Carnival of Homeschooling: Lolcats Edition

Homeschooling: from fringe to mainstream? Via Yahoo News COLUMBIA, Maryland (AFP) – When Elizabeth Dean was four, her mother took her out of kindergarten to teach her at home because she could already read the children’s classic “Charlotte’s Web” while the other kids were just learning how to write the letter “C”. That was 10 years ago and homeschooling was “still on the fringe of acceptability”, Elizabeth’s mother Lisa Dean told AFP in between classes in the family home on the history of an

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Homeschooling: from fringe to mainstream?

The Carnival of Homeschooling: Summer Transition Edition Hosted this week at Our Curious Home . Welcome to the Summer Transition Edition of the Carnival of Homeschooling. Summer may have started two days ago, but my routines have not caught up. I feel pulled in two directions at once! Last month at the standardized testing co-op, I asked the Moms (and a few Dads) how they transitioned to Summer. Many told me, “Testing is the end of the year,” some adding, “If we’ve finished the math book!”

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The Carnival of Homeschooling: Summer Transition Edition

HSLDA—USA Today Gets Homeschool Story Wrong HSLDA has some interesting facts on the mis-reporting by USA Today. USA Today depicted a profound shift in homeschooling demographics. The report they were quoting however, shows no such thing. Perhaps the writer was just in a rush to be first, since his story was published on the day the NCES report was released online, or perhaps he has an agenda to falsely paint homeschoolers as rich and white, thereby dismissing the full range of people who are ma

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