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Educating Your Child at Home is a great introduction to home education for new home educators and families enquiring into home education. It clearly explains what home education is and how it differs from school education. It also outlines the different methods [...]
Archive for May, 2008
Educating Your Child at Home
House with Study
This article appeared in The Sunbury Telegraph and was reproduced in Otherways 115.
House with Study: A New Meaning
Class in, it’s home sweet school
For Sunbury’s Brown family, the world is their classroom and every minute is a chance to learn.
The 10 children, who range in age from one to 18, have been home-schooled by mum Karen [...]
News from America
In Otherways 116 we reported that a Californian court recently ruled that parents have no constutional right to homeschool their children. The court decision was based on this ominous quotation from a 47-year-old case, “A primary purpose of the educational system is to train schoolchildren in good citizenship, patriotism and loyalty to the state and [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Otherways – Issue 115 – February – April 2008
Home Education and Divorce
When to Do a Homeschooling Journey Comes to an End
Teaching a Foreign Language
The Invention of Childhood.
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Read the rest of this entry »Don’t Quake, Conjugate!
Teaching a Foreign Language
By Danielle L Schultz
Home-educators are a confident bunch, but a lot of us quake when we think about teaching a foreign language. After all, most of us don’t speak another language ourselves, even if we put in time during our own school years. Even if we’ve managed to avoid foreign languages, maybe [...]