Should You Homeschool Year-Round?HOME-SCHOOLING While other Midlands high schoolers cherish the quickly fading days of summer vacation, 14-year-old Elise Porter is well into her sophomore year of high school.

Eugene’s HomeSource and other publicly funded programs that serve home-schooled students may suffer a severe financial blow in the upcoming school year because of a new interpretation of how the state should be paying for them.
In a memo issued last month, state Department of Education officials said school districts must apply a different per-pupil funding [...]

A recent news article from The York Daily Record that describes a Pennsylvania homeschool graduation ceremony…
21 homeschool students became grads Saturday
by Theresa McMinn
Most high school graduations have similar programs. There’s usually a guest speaker, and final words to class members from a salutatorian and valedictorian. The graduating class is often presented as a whole [...]

According to The Post & Courier, homeschoolers are encouraging conservative denominations (i.e. Southern Baptists, Free Methodists) to pull their children out of public schools and homeschool them. This is partly due to religious reasons, but also because of concerns over violence and negative behavior patterns that children develop in a public-school setting. The [...]

A very good article about the importance of staying organized when homeschooling. If you find organization tough, this article will help you get organized…and most importantly, stay organized!
Organizing Your Home School
by Holly Williams Urbach
Because being organized allows me more freedom to teach my children in greater depth, I have found it necessary [...]

Interesting editorial article on homeschool myths, statistics, and the effects of home schooling on the public educational system. Originally published on 8/11/05.
Home Schoolers Are Challenging the Education Monopoly
By Nathan Tabor
It is a fundamental tenet of capitalism that free market competition is good for the people and the country. That’s why Congress wisely [...]

Homeschool styles are changing, according to a recent article published by The New York Times. A growing number of families are hiring tutors to school their children at home, instead of teaching the children themselves. Many years ago, hiring private tutors to educate one’s children was standard practice among the elite. Today, however, [...]

Mary Joyce has some helpful advice for choosing lesson plans…

Homeschool Lesson Plans
by Mary Joyce
Homeschool families have an abundance of homeschool lesson plans and programs
to choose from. As a homeschooling parent, whether you want a tightly knitted
curriculum package or prefer to be [...]