The Bitter Homeschooler's Wish ListBy Deborah Markus, from Secular Homeschooling Magazine, Issue #1, Fall 2007 ( Read more... )

Breaking news from CHN, posted today (3/26):

CHN has been informed that the court of appeals has vacated the ruling and will rehear the case in late April. This means that the current ruling will not apply to any homeschoolers. We will post further information on this to this site as it becomes available.

And from HSLDA: (Note stuff in bold at ( Read more... )

I've read a lot about last week's anti-homeschooling ruling. A LOT, including the actual court brief. And I don't like it one bit. The judges have really overstepped their bounds on this one ( Read more... )

I've been corresponding with a conference organizer in Virginia about speaking at their May conference. No official word back, but she just emailed me & asked about a question about workshop scheduling. Her message started by saying, "We have been plugging your workshops into our proposed schedule..." That sounds really, really hopeful ( Read more... )

Sometimes it's instructive to see what your children pick up at the library. With the advent of the school year, we've limited the boys to three fiction books apiece, with the requirement that they must also read a minimum of two non-fiction books. Here were their choices last time they went ( Read more... )

Yesterday, at the DPS barbecue, I got into a long conversation about homeschooling with the chief of police. He asked all the standard questions: What about socialization? Where do you get your books? etc. etc. He thought it was pretty interesting (even though his kids are grown & gone). The lady who oversees my volunteer work is very pro- ( Read more... )

On Wednesday mornings a homeschool dad brings his daughter over to my house so she can do science with my boys. We take turns presenting the experiment for the week.

Now I know what you're thinking: "You wrote a book on science education and you still need help teaching science?" No, of course not! And ChemBuddy, who has a master's in ( Read more... )