From New York State’s Linda Aragoni:
Here’s a link to an editorial about one district’s attempt to find ways to include homeschoolers in extracurricular activities. It is from the October 1, 2009 Canandaigua (NY) Daily Messenger.
Editorial: These kids don’t have to be forgotten
Many of them are fine young athletes, but you won’t read their name in the [...]
Blake Boles has adventures.
Blake Boles realized halfway through an astrophysics major that school and education are not the same thing. Blake is the co-founder of Unschool Adventures, a company that leads innovative trips for self-directed teens, and the founder of Homeschool Leadership Retreats. He is the former acting director of Deer Crossing Summer Camp, an [...]
Word was passed along to the Illinois Homeschool Freedom Watch list that HSLDA lawyer, Chris Klicka, is in hospice care in Colorado. Mr. Klicka represented the HSLDA members in Illinois.
More information from his wife and other loved ones is being passed along at the Caring Bridge site. Sympathy and prayers are extended to the Chris Klicka [...]
By Mike F-W Your man in a hammock
www.home-education.org.uk
http://HomeEducationUK.ourtoolbar.com
Earlier in the year I was a speaker at a conference in the Netherlands
and was asked to speak about home education and Europe. I wrote the
following.
I’m sorry that its so very long but I thought people might be interested.
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Europe
If, like me, you welcomed the development of children’s [...]
From Homel Educator’s Family Times:
Book Excerpt: The First Year of Homeschooling Your Child
INTRODUCTION
Are your palms sweating? Are you shaking in your boots? Welcome to Your First Year of Homeschooling! And relax. Here it’s understood that you’re at least a little – or perhaps a lot – apprehensive about your ability to enjoy and succeed in [...]
