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| *January 19, 2013 HOMESCHOOLER'S NEIGHBOR SPARKS SOCIAL SERVICES CASE "A Colorado homeschooling mother has won a social-services case sparked by a neighbor’s complaint about the family that escalated when a social worker did a “drive-by” and concluded they were planning to flee." >>read more>> *December 17, 2012 COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS INITIATIVE: TOO CLOSE TO A NATIONAL CURRICULUM "Due to laws prohibiting the creation of national tests, curriculum, and teacher certification, governors and state legislatures are the only policy makers who can actually decide whether or not to adopt the CCSS. While the federal government has encouraged the states to adopt the CCSS through federal incentives, the states are completely free to reject the CCSS." >>read more>> |
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| September 28, 2012 JUDGE OKS SOCIAL WORKERS' INVASION OF HOMESCHOOLERS "The HSLDA has noted in court papers: 'For 40 terrifying minutes, this homeschooling couple had asserted their Fourth Amendment right to be free from an unreasonable search of their home. The two investigative social workers were eventually joined by six uniformed sheriff’s deputies who were called because the social workers considered the Loudermilks to be ‘uncooperative.’ ' " >>read more>> |
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Our thanks to WORLD Magazine for this article: September 22, 2012 |
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| August 27, 2012 HOME SCHOOLING ON THE RISE IN NEW YORK CITY “According to the New York Department of Education’s special home school division, which monitors the children enrolled in home school education, the number of parents who choose to educate their children at home rose from 2,350 in the 2008-2009 school year to 2,766 in 2011- 2012.” >>read more>> |
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| March 14, 2012 HOME SCHOOLING: WHY MORE BLACK FAMILIES U.S. ARE TRYING IT “The number of inner-city parents choosing to educate their children at home, for educational rather than religious reasons, has been growing for a while.” >>read more>> |
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| January 11, 2011 NO EXTRA RULES REQUIRED “A federal income tax credit for educational expenses would help all parents provide greater resources for their children. Tax credits are superior to vouchers because the family keeps its own money and is not the recipient of federal funds. This eliminates any First Amendment concerns if a family purchases religious educational materials, or any danger of federal control coming along with the money.” >>read more>> |
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| November 18, 2011 TURNING BACK ON 'TRADITIONAL' EDUCATION "Traditionally – throughout history – parents have educated their own children; or at least, selected the type of education they wanted their children to receive. Many children became apprentices, learning a specific skill or craft starting at a young age. Other children simply learned what they needed to get by in life by working side by side with their parents. But since the advent of public education, children have been separated from their parents for a good portion of the day, learning things away from the guidance of the people who love them most." >>read more>> |
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| November 2, 2011 OBAMA ED AIMS AT U.S. TAKEOVER "Home School Legal Defense A's federal relations staff have read this 868-page bill, and we believe that while it does not directly impact homeschool freedom, the bill will 1) increase the federal role in education at the expense of state, local and parental control, and 2) will greatly increase the pressure on states to align their curriculum and standards, resulting in de facto national education standards...While some specifics that could be included in a final bill remain unclear, 'the trend of national standards could lead to homeschoolers losing the freedom to choose the curriculum for their children.'...national standards would remove control from local boards and districts and allow 'unelected bureaucrats, not parents' to decide what subjects should be taught." >>read more>> |
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| October 3, 2011 HOME CLASSROOMS STEADILY GROW IN POPULARITY “Allegheny County had 970 home-schooled children in the state in 2007, fifth-most of any county, according to the latest data from the Pennsylvania Department of Education. That year, 565 students were home-schooled in Westmoreland County. Statewide, there were 22,136 home-schooled children, down from 24,415 in 2003.” >>read more>> |
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| Thanks to WORLD Magazine for this article: September 24, 2011 AFRICAN AMERICAN HOMESCHOOLING ON THE RISE "Colenburg has learned that homeschooling is difficult but doable. She almost gave up during her first year, after months of exhaustion. Her children fluctuated between enjoying learning at home and wanting to be back with their friends—but Colenburg urges first-time homeschool parents not to give up. In Harlem, Baker agrees: 'It's a really intimate experience with your child. ... I wouldn't have it any other way.' " >>read more>> |
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March 15, 2011 DANVILLE'S EVAN O'DORNEY WINS INTEL SCIENCE TALENT SEARCH "At 17, Danville's Evan O'Dorney already has won the National Spelling Bee and a gold medal at an international math Olympiad, meeting two presidents along the way. On Tuesday, he claimed the triple-crown: the coveted Intel Science Talent Search's $100,000 top prize....He's a home-schooled." |
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| Winter 2010 ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT & DEMOGRAPHIC TRAITS OF HOMESCHOOL STUDENTS: A NATIONWIDE STUDY “The body of research on home-based education has expanded dramatically since the first studies and academic articles of the late 1970s that dealt with the modern homeschool movement. Numerous researchers have examined the academic achievement of home-educated children and youth, their social, emotional, and psychological development, and their success into adulthood, and various aspects of homeschool families in general. Researchers have also explored myriad other aspects and issues related to home education in disciplines such as philosophy, sociology, and law. Only a handful of studies, however, have looked closely at a large nationwide sample of home educators and their children in the United States, and the last one of this nature was conducted about a decade ago.” >>read more>> |
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| September 8, 2010 CLASSICAL APPROACH TO TEACHING "More and more parents are taking advantage of...options to customize an approach that suits their children's needs and gifts....There's no limit to creative solutions when we encourage and empower parents to pursue them." >>read more>> |
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| September 4, 2010 JUDGE CITES HOMESCHOOLERS FOR VIOLATING U.N. MANDATE “HSDLA previously has warned that the U.N. effort, which has not been adopted by the U.S. but has been embraced by most other nations, ‘opens the door for judges to make sweeping determinations about how children are educated.’ “ >>read more>> |
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August 12, 2010 HOMESCHOOL EDUCATION LEVELS WELL ABOVE NATIONAL AVERAGES |
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| August 12, 2010 THE BENEFITS OF A CLASSICAL EDUCATION “No school system, no matter how good, educates all of its students to their potential. Parents whose children attend classical schools are often amazed by how their children thrive: kindergartners who know what atoms and molecules are; first-graders comparing spilled milk to the Nile River during breakfast conversation; fourth-graders figuring out an unknown word by recognizing its Latin roots; eighth-graders conducting mock trials with real local cases and a real judge.” >>read more>> |
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Commonwealth Education Organization . 3830 Saxonburg Blvd. Cheswick , Pa. 15024 . (412) 967-9691
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