Home Schooling News

The new Indiana budget passed by legislators this week includes a pilot program for virtual charter schools, which provide more than half of a child's instruction online.

While the freedom to home-school in America continues to expand, the opposite is true in Europe.

Under the program, youths under 18 arrested for robbery will work with cops from Police Housing Area 5, who will visit their homes and teach their families how to prevent them from falling into a life of crime, police said.

Fundamental changes to the law affecting the rights and the freedom of about 80,000 children may be sneaked into a bill going through parliament, after the review into home education by Graham Badman .

Parents are hitting back at plans for what they believe are Big Brother-style powers to inspect home schooling.

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Comments In my ongoing search for information and studies on the impact of home-schooling, I found an interesting study by John Wenders and Andrea Clements called "Homeschooling in Nevada: The Budgetary Impact." This study, sponsored by the Nevada Policy Research Institute, an independent research organization that neither seeks nor accepts any ...

It was interesting to read from a home-schooler's perspective the Argus Leader report about the increase in home-schooling. Making generalizations in order to lump individuals into labeled groups is easy when statistics are involved, but this distracts from what actually is happening.

It is often derided as a 'hippie' alternative, but for many the decision to home school a child is the right one.

Web-exclusive commentary Not so fast: Home schooling trumps full-day kindergarten Research shows home-schooled kids outperform their public-school peers.

Comments From 1999 to 2007, the number of home-schoolers nearly doubled, from about 1.7 percent of school-aged children to 2.9 percent in 2007.

"We made the decision to home school because we really felt like we could give them a very good education," said Pamela Bump.

PARENTS who want to home-school their child will have to register with their local council, it has been announced.

Recently, tucked in the inner pages of The Herald Bulletin, there was a short news blurb regarding how to compute the "teaching" days in Indiana public schools.

Speaking personally, I find it hard to imagine a worse way of educating my children than trying to do it myself, at home.

The number of home-schooled children in the United States almost has doubled in the past decade, according to a new federal government report.

For many, home schooling is a poor choice because the parents fail to provide an atmosphere that is truly conducive to learning.

A recent blog on teacherrevised.org inflamed the passions of already-passionate home schooling parents by explaining why the author disliked home schooling parents, concluding we were arrogant, home schooled students were geeky, and that "home schoolers kind of piss me off." As a writer and a home schooling parent, I was annoyed and offended, but I ...

Home schooling has become an attractive alternative to public or private school.

Three female foreign aid workers, including two Canadians, were slain in a a oesenseless, heinous attacka by Taliban insurgents south of Kabul, a senior official of the aid agency said Wednesday.