Home School Diploma

Gotta love that book title. Via Homeschooling in Pleasanton: The Benefits and Drawbacks – Pleasanton, CA Patch

As a young mother, Tina Razzell made the difficult choice to school her four children at home.   

It is her 15 years of experience in homeschooling her children that fueled the content for her book Homeschooling Boys-Gaining Maximum Success With Minimum Cooperation in hopes of helping others who also make the decision to educate their children at home.

http://www.amazon.com/Homeschooling-Boys-Gaining-Cooperation-ebook/dp/B005EOAVF6/ref=nttatepdpt1

When school is at home via – IOL Lifestyle, South Africa.

The Pretoria News caught up with some home-schooling moms, who shared their motivation for keeping their children out of mainstream schools and the normal education system, and also told of the long-term and short-term benefits of keeping them at home.

They gave different reasons for choosing to home-school their children, ranging from the inaccessibility of good learning facilities to the lack of proper Christian values in schools and the need to oversee the day-to-day quality of the education and well-being of their children.

Opinion: It’s Really White in Here via Montville, CT Patch

I love homeschooling. I’m a huge advocate of the lifestyle. But when you scope the landscape, there are some glaring problems.

For one, it’s lily white in here.

I’ve rarely met a black homeschooling family. I know they’re out there. There’s the National Black Home Educators, and Black Homeschoolers Magazine, and there are rumors that the number of black homeschoolers is growing rapidly. But there are no hard numbers, and even less anecdotal evidence in my personal experience.

I wasn’t aware that there were such a thing as Influential Homeschoolers.

On Saturday, the Ron Paul campaign issued a statement announcing the naming of several new members of the “Homeschoolers for Ron Paul” coalition.

 The formation of the group was originally announced in August and since then has been very successful in motivating homeschool advocates to rally to Dr. Paul’s campaign for the White House.

 

As the statement released on ronpaul2012.com stated:

 

Today, interest in Ron Paul by this population segment has spilled over to many other states and the national campaign. The campaign’s expanded use of the homeschool and other coalitions is proving itself a useful tool in helping to make Barack Obama a one-term president.

Part Four: of the Why I Homeschool series from the Greene County Daily World:

Of all of the reasons I have for homeschooling, avoidance of public schools is way down near the bottom of the list. I usually prefer to focus on the positives of homeschooling rather than the negatives of public schools.However, I feel obligated to point out that there is a dark side to public schools. History tells us that at times public schools were used for the purpose of brainwashing children. The Communist Manifesto argues for the free education of all children, because Karl Marx believed that children needed to be removed from the influence of their parents so they could be taught how to be good little Communists. Indeed, under Joseph Stalin, public school textbooks in the Soviet Union contained object lessons about ants working together for the good of the colony in order to emphasize the benefits of embracing Communism.

Time 4 Learning is hosting the Carnival of Homeschooling: The Organized Homeschool this week.

So, did you know that January is officially “Get Organized” month? That’s probably pretty timely when you figure just how many of us have created New Year’s resolutions with some form of the word “ORGANIZE” in them. And we homeschoolers – - especially – - have more than a few things lying around the house that we’d like to bring order to, don’t we? So this 316th week of the Carnival of Homeschooling is going to be dedicated to tips and tricks that homeschoolers can use to curb the chaos and get organized for 2012!! Shall we get started???

A friend shared this video. Sure to be viral among homeschoolers.

The Carnival of Homeschooling the Gemstone Edition is being hosted this week at Alasandra’s Homeschool Blog.

Carnival of Homeschooling the Gemstone Edition

Welcome to the Gemstone Edition of the Carnival of Homeschooling.  Below you will find not only the wonderful submissions for this carnival but gemstones commonly used for birthstones and the history behind them.

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I’ve got to hand it to Henry and Janine Cate of Why Homeschool blog. They have kept this carnival alive and active for 6 years now. I’ve made it a point to link to each carnival almost every week since I first became aware of it. If you haven’t been to a blog-carnival, check it out. Better yet, send in a post for the next one.

Welcome to the sixth anniversary of the Carnival of Homeschooling. It is one of the longest running weekly blog carnivals. This is the 314th edition!
My wife and I are very grateful that are so many people who participate, help promote the carnival, and give us encouragement. We are especially appreciative of the several dozen people who take turns hosting the carnival. Read more…

The Carnival of Homeschooling is hosted this week at Corn and Oil.

2011 will be our family’s last full year of homeschooling. Our youngest have steadily moved into their own educational goals and motivations. Their plan was always implanted with great fun such as zoo adventures, jamming with friends and traveling. Definitely not the last our family will see of homeschooling, but our twin boys and their parents will be on a different path come this time next year. Read more…