- Boost Your Pack
This Scouting Magazine article is a pleasant surprise.Plug Into the NetworkWhy hooking up with the homeschooled can boost your pack.Homeschool families can make a great addition to many packs because they’re child-focused, contain involved parents, and often share many of Cub Scouting’s core values. How can you connect with homeschool families in your community? Read [...]
- Interview with Jake Nix
The March-April, 2010 issue of Home Education Magazine features Mary Nix interviewing her youngest son, Jake, home from college on his first year living away from home. Jake tells us homeschooling, and more specifically interest based learning, helped him to realize that his education was his own responsibility: “Following my own interests from a young [...]
- Commentary
HEM’s News & Commentary tracks news stories of interest to homeschoolers and the homeschooling community. Recent posts include:Certified teacher joins homeschool worldHomeschooling – The Political FootballExperts’ Vision for Future AssessmentsRomeike Family Asylum Ctd.Questioning College DegreesZombie Zealots Coming of AgeHome-schooling money divvied upUtah Senate OKs homeschooled student sportsWebcam Spy CaseHomeschooled OlympiansCheck NewsComm, in the middle column [...]
- Children Teach Themselves to Read
In a blog post titled Children Teach Themselves to Read for the respected journal Psychology Today, author Peter Gray, a research professor of psychology at Boston College who has published research in comparative, evolutionary, developmental, and educational psychology, explains the various approaches to teaching children to read. He revisits the age-old “reading wars” between phonics [...]
- Homeschooling Re-Affirmation
“I have read many books about homeschooling, unschooling, the perils of early academic education and how children are hurried and forced to grow up too soon while being deprived of knowing and savoring the richness and specialness of childhood, how stressed out today’s kids are, Howard Gardner’s theory of the seven intelligences humans possess and [...]
- Broader Issues
Homeschooling father and essayist Earl Gary Stevens wrote with rare common sense when he advised, “Whatever our individual circumstances, whether or not we have children in schools, we must still be able to express our misgivings about schooling in general and to offer support and encouragement for those who are searching for a way out. [...]
- A May-June 2010
HEM’s Questions & Answers – May-June 2010“Our oldest daughter is stubborn and acts lazy even though she’s smart. She’s the reason we got into homeschooling in the first place after a lot of difficulty in school. And it was much better for awhile but now that she’s close to 13 she’s worse than ever. She [...]
- A May-June 2010
HEM’s Questions & Answers – May-June 2010“The financial meltdown has caused my daughter (11) to panic and hoard every penny but caused my son (14) to figure there’s no use saving and just spend anything he gets. Any time I explain economics it makes it worse. Any ideas?” – unemployed in PittsburghYour responses must meet [...]
- Homeschooling History
Back issues of Home Education Magazine are available individually or in annual sets for the last ten years, from 2000 through 2009, but further back in our 27 year publishing history the available issues start getting a little thinner, and some issues can no longer be ordered. Only single issues are available for 2001, 1999, [...]
- HEM on Facebook
There’s a new feature on this page, the HEM Facebook fan page – check it out in the middle column, under Around the Site. Home Education Magazine was one of the earliest homeschool companies on the Internet, going online in 1997. Beginning with one of the very first Internet forums, HEM has contributed immeasurable support [...]