Homeschooling News Links

Loudon Times-Mirror
School Board debates letting home-schoolers take PSAT

The LaPorte Herald Argus
Home schoolers may soon sit in LaPorte classrooms

NewsNet5 (Cleveland)
Home-Schooled Girl Kicked Off Volleyball Team

Sun Herald
Lit class registration to begin

Modesto Bee
Truancy ruling on home-schoolers creates confusion

Worldnet Daily
Parent-directed education

Houma Courier Today
HOME & FAMILY: Homeschoolers find their niche

Miami.com
Home school to high school

Houma Courier Today
More parents opting for homeschooling

Pantagraph.com
Academy supplements home schooling efforts

Cape Cod Times
From classroom to living room

MidValleySunday.com
Who watches the home-schoolers?

Nunatsiaq News
The Homeschool Experiment

NorthJersey News
Cancer patient, high school at odds

Vancouver Sun
Community hall an alternative to long bus ride, homeschooling

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Houston Chronicle
Teens making the grade in medical school

Christianity Today
The little school in the living room grows up

Tech Central Station
Teach the children well

The State
Homeschooling new niche market

femai.co.uk
The Class Divide

The Dominion Post
Pennsylvania school board denies sports to home-schoolers

Daily Herald
Home, school one in same

The Republican Journal
Home-schooling up, SAD 3 enrollment down

The Washington Times
Online Instructors Conduct Classes

Herald Times Reporter
Students plug in to regional virtual school

Press Democrat
Simon Stumps in Sonoma

Newport News Times
Early enrollment shows loss of Eddyville Students

The perils and pitfalls of definitions

It is the nature of definitions that they limit.

How ironic, it seems, that trying to pin down a definition of homeschooling could impinge on our freedom to homeschool. But that is, in fact, exactly what defining it in law does.

Let's examine, for a moment, the alternative. If we don't define homeschooling, then anyone and everyone can call themselves homeschoolers. It seems a little silly to invite that possibility, yet trying to prevent it by defining homeschooling in law brings certain regulation.

If a state does not allow homeschoolers to self-identify — and by self-identify, I mean that they decide for themselves that they are homeschoolers, rather than having the state determine for them whether they are or not — then the state is regulating homeschooling in some way. In other words, if the state is not simply taking a homeschooling parent's word for it that they are educating their children, then the state is requiring homeschoolers to jump through one or more regulatory hoops to demonstrate or prove that they fit the state's definition of homeschooling.

We can't have zero regulation if homeschoolers are not allowed to self-identify. It's a messy reality.

More Homeschool News Links

Los Angeles Daily News
Home school issue unclear

The Claremont Institute
Home school backlash

Rocky Mountain News
Home schooling on growth spurt

Rocky Mountain News
Q&A: State reveals how to get started at home schooling

Times Record News
Learning curve

World Net Daily
Home-school battle heats up in California

Daily Camera
Women open store for home schoolers

WorldNetDaily
Public education vs. homeschoolers

Cincinnati Post
Home-schoolers worried about online academy

Pacific Business News
Maui-based virtual community targets home-school families

Abilene Reporter-News
Flexibility, control keys to homeschooling

Gates Chili-Post
Home schoolers hit hard by library cuts

Sun-Herald: Moms
Homeschool benefits outweigh public school experience

Education Guardian UK
Opting Out

Ames Tribune
Learning at home

Nevada Daily Mail
Learning in the living room

Greenville Herald Banner
Home school programs mark progress locally

Enlightened path
New school counters MCAS-based mentality

St. Petersburg Times
No place like home

Washington Times
The challenge of cyber schools

Tallahassee Democrat
Remy Shand at home on Motown

Anchorage Daily News
Murkowski speaks on education

Globe and Mail
Edmonton board embraces choice to fight cutbacks

Sun Sentinel
Parents in school groups will help

Modesto Bee
Private schools grow

Boston Globe Magazine
Encounter: Joe Perry