A story on the NewsObserver.com site by correspondent Diane Morris is just a nice story.Thanks, partner, for making my life worth livingIn the years since our two sons were diagnosed with autism, I have discovered Greg is kinder and more generous of heart than I could have imagined back when we were first married. He [...]

The Garner Area Homeschoolers are still at work trying to save their Southeast Regional Library in Garner, NC. They have produced a number of videos to help get the word out:Interested in a bit edgier version of the protest video?View more videos on the Garner Area Homeschoolers Facebook Page

The editorial, “Home school – The Europeans don’t like it,” on the Las Vegas Review-Journal nudges the Romeike family’s asylum into immigration reform territory.Immigration has long been a wedge issue and the any reform effort is assured to be hotly debated, with rounds and rounds of emotional pleas by those on all sides. And, now [...]

Top home-school texts dismiss Darwin, evolutionThe article itself is a throw-away piece which builds itself on too many assumptions to be taking seriously. The fight being picked is real, and a losing one for homeschoooling. Culture wars do us no good because homeschooolers need a broad base of support to maintain our ability to raise [...]

In a short piece in the Daily Herald we learn the Central Unit District 301 school board is revising its policy for homeschoolers participation in public school sports. Of note is this comment from Superintendent Todd Stirn:“We live in an age of greater accountability all the time. I fully support a family’s right [...]

Mommy Life – Growing outrage at Michael Pearl and his response to child’s deathI think it’s a scandal when a man who last year raked in 1.8 million from Christian parents sincerely seeking to improve their parenting skills is revealed to be a man of pride, arrogance, and contempt for others.Michael Pearl himself escalated this [...]

Most reader know I have strong opinions about how the term ‘homeschooling’ is used – it is a matter of maintaining our distinctiveness. This piece from the Little Rock Homeschooling Examiner fumbles around with ‘homeschooling.’ The Arkansas Virtual Academy, located in Little Rock, is accepting lottery applications for the 2010-2011 school year.~~~This is a huge [...]

Science as Homeschool Culture.Jenny Lynn schmidt writes the “Adventures in Homeschooling” blog on Psychology Today’s website. Her March post is a story about science in her homeschool:I am exhausted. Today was Science Co-op. Science Co-op tends to wear me out, but I love it. I confess that I am an artsy-fartsy science geek posing as [...]

Thirteen year-old Sarah Prater has her “web Letter” published:I think people need to know more about home schooling because of the unfounded stereotypes that seem to label every child who is home-schooled. While some people do home school primarily because of their beliefs, special needs children or other reasons, it does not mean that all [...]

You have probably read the text of Michael Pearl’s Laughing Note on Facebook, “It has come to my attention that a vocal few are decrying our sensible application of the Biblical rod in training up our children. I laugh at my caustic critics, for our properly spanked and trained children grow to maturity in great [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

“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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]