ISIL Freedom Network: United States > Introductions and FAQs > Homeschooling
- World-Class mentors for your child
Source: Homeschool.com
Country: United States
- What is the best way to educate your child about money? Homeschool.com, a "virtual home school," offers advice from four financial experts. (07/01)
- Embracing quality education
Source: WorldNet Daily
Country: United States
- Geoff Metcalf interviews homeschooling expert and author Isabel Lyman. "With education, Americans seem to have this attitude of delivering the child to the school door and walking away .... Home-schooling parents do have to put in the effort, but the resources are out there." (07/08/01)
- The Seduction of Homeschooling Families
Source: The Foundation for Economic Education
Country: United States
- Threatened by competition, educrats are trying to lure homeschoolers into dependency on public school resources.
- Report card on home schooling in US
Source: Christian Science Monitor
Country: United States
- Homeschooled students are achieving at high levels and defying stereotypes about religious separatists and academic misfits. (3/99)
- Homeschooling becomes mainstream
Source: NCPA
Country: United States
- The ranks of children educated at home have grown to the point that the movement is mainstream and widely accepted. (10/98)
- Restoring parental responsibility for education
Source: The Freeman
Author: Marshall Fritz
Country: United States
- How separating education from the state would "enable schools, teachers, and students to flourish in an environment of educational freedom." (1995)
- The Homeschool Lobby
Source: PrestonSpeed Publications
Country: United States
E-mail: crhoarch@speed.net
- An "unapologetically Christian Web site to aid Christian families in giving their children a superior home education." Offers bulletin boards and chat rooms, as well as how-to articles, legal information, and position papers.
- Why the Government Education Monopoly Will Come Tumbling Down
Source: Free Congress Foundation / Against the Grain
Author: Bradley Jacobs
Country: United States
- Critique of government-run education, and history of public school development in the United States. Considers arguments against home schooling, recommends education tax credits as a preferred instrument of "school choice," and holds that the parental consensus on appropriate educational values is permanently ruptured. Adobe PDF. (9/99)
- Strengths of Their Own
Source: Home School Legal Defense Association
Author: Brian D. Ray
Country: United States
- Students who are taught at home by their parents score significantly higher than their public school peers, according to this study by the president of the National Home Education Research Institute in Salem, Oregon. Data on 5402 students from 1657 families for the 1994-95 and 1995-96 school years. Adobe PDF. (1997)
- No Place (to Learn) Like Home School
Source: Insight
Author: David Wagner
Country: United States
- The popularity of home schooling in the United States is growing and giving rise to real diversity in education. Adobe PDF. (9/97)
- The Education of Thomas Edison
Source: The Freeman
Author: Jim Powell
Country: United States
- Homeschooled Thomas Alva Edison did well enough in life. "Nancy Edison's secret: she was more dedicated than any teacher was likely to be, and she had the flexibility to experiment with various ways of nurturing her son's love for learning."
- Planning and delivering classes for homeschoolers
Source: Education News
Author: Charlotte Monte
Country: United States
- Although most homeschoolers are do-it-yourselfers in the education arena, lots of homeschoolers like the option of taking outside-the-home classes. Here are some tips on how to start and run them.
- The three Qs about college
Source: Homeschool.com
Country: United States
- How to I prepare my child for College? What are colleges really looking for? How I can afford it? (9/00)
- Save the children, save the future
Source: Lost Horizons
Author: Pete Hendrickson
Country: United States
- Article about the value of home schooling to not only educate children, but save them from indoctrination in the anti-liberty culture promoted by the government schools.
- Learning without school
Source: American School Board Journal
Country: United States
- "Homeschoolers believe that parents are the best teachers [and] that only by separating themselves from a cumbersome and, some say, morally corrupt system can they retain control of their children's lives." (08/01)
- Homeschool placement can trigger a special education obligation
Source: Section 504 Compliance Advisor
Author: Perry Zirkel
Country: United States
- A Q&A about homeschooling and "special education" of homeschooled children under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. Is homeschooling the same as "homebound placement"? (08/02/01)
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