From Voice of America’s News USA, an article titled Education Begins at Home in Many US Households and subtitled Homeschooling has broadened to include parents of all faiths:Before 1918, when Mississippi became the last U.S. state to require that school-age children attend public or private schools, many children were taught by their parents at home [...]

From KYTX in Tyler, Texas: Homeschooling on the rise in Texas:Some parents are taking it upon themselves to ensure their children get a good education, which is why Texas is seeing an increase in homeschooling.New research says the percentage of kids homeschooled jumped 75 percent in the past eight yearsContinue reading at the link above.

Holly Craw, the Phoenix, Arizona Homeschooling Examiner, asks a question we’re hearing more and more often these days in her article Arizona loses out on Race to the Top Funds: Is this a new opportunity to strengthen homeschooling? A couple of excerpts:The Arizona homeschool community may need to gear up for an increase in its [...]

Huffington Post blogger Kate Fridkis writes about the New York Style Magazine article on upscale New York homeschool cooperatives:The New York Times Style Magazine piece about the trendy Brooklyn homeschoolers, “School’s In,” both did and didn’t remind me of my own pre-college education. My family called it unschooling, because we didn’t have any classes. We [...]

In an article for the New York Style magazine, an article titled School’s In explores the trendsetting approaches to homeschooling being taken by Brooklyn hipster parents (including fashion photographers, a cinematographer, a dancer-choreographer and a sculptor among them) when the local schools didn’t quite pass muster. …is this a school, or artists trying to render [...]

An interesting and enlightening article on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s website, StLToday.com, titled Adventures in Public Schooling, Homeschooling, and Living in Both Worlds by Sharon Autenrieth: Twelve years ago my husband and I had dinner with friends. They were homeschooling their youngest child, then in fifth grade, and at some point in the evening the [...]

CBS News’ Political Hotsheet has an article about the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child:31 GOP Senators Oppose U.N. Children’s Rights Convention by Brian Montopoli – 36 comments Thirty-one Republican senators are cosponsoring a resolution opposing the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, according to the conservative group [...]

From the Southtown Star, an edition of the Chicago Sun-Times, an article by Fran Eaton titled Homeschooling taught lessons for both children and parents:Any day now, we’ll all be hearing those familiar sounds of school buses and young voices shouting out as the kids head back to school. That first day marks a fresh beginning [...]

As her always-homeschooled children enter public school for the first time, Andromeda Romano-Lax, an Alaskan writer, author of The Spanish Bow and more than 10 travel and natural history books, shares her perspective on lessons she learned while homeschooling her children. Andromeda’s post is at 49 Writers, a blog for Alaskan authors:They were giddy this [...]

ParentDish, a new weblog launched by AOL and dedicated to parenting, asks Would You Homeschool Your Kids? and the lengthy comments are as interesting as the well-written pro and con commentaries about homeschooling, penned by Amy Hatch and Crystal Paine.