Via guardian.co.uk Today, I received a copy of a letter that my local MP sent to the education secretary, Ed Balls. This letter was prompted by my concerns about the Badman report, a review into home-education which was submitted in June and...

From The News Tribune - Seattle-Tacoma: When Anne Marie Semke was a school-aged child, she said she thrived in the public school system. She loved it enough that she decided to become a teacher and taught at both public and private high schools in...

The 201st Carnival of Homeschooling is hosted this week by The Informed Parent with a "Saving Time" theme. “What children need is not new and better curricula but access to more and more of the real world; plenty of time and space to think over their...

People always ask me, “So, do you like home schooling?” And I usually say something like, “Um ... well, um … I mean, I like it, but I just have trouble with the part where you have to learn stuff. But once you get past that ... well, um,...

In honor of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo.org)—an international event where aspiring novelists are encouraged to write an entire novel in 30 days—there is a contest meant to encourage the aspiring YA author to get started on that novel by...