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I caught up with the mom from my previous post — the one whose family chose cyber-schooling. Her kids are now in college, and she shared...

In my dissertation population, one of the families did some Cyberschool. The dad was a pilot with a very unpredictable schedule. The mom...

Homeschooling in the United States has deep roots reaching back to the first families arriving on the eastern shore. Often children...

We need to make this affordable. Community College is the way to do it. As homeschooling children approach college age, the question...

When Eva’s phone rang, she was surprised to find it was Michael. He was at the local community college taking his first math test that...

Selecting or building a curriculum is not everyone's favorite chore. Kim, however, had a tremendous love of curricular content. She was...

Donna’s family lived on a goat farm. She had a pragmatic approach to schooling and was very adept at taking from school and from...

Ravenous Butterflies “Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this:...

This article, Is Real Educational Reform Possible? If So, How? , by Peter Gray, PhD, was published in Psychology Today and referenced on...

This is the way I see it. The biggest problems we face, other than COVID 19, is that schools had become food sources for poor families...

Money is often a concern in schooling. Public schooling is probably the cheapest. Private school is expensive. Homeschooling costs vary...

For moms worried about whether they can homeschool, I’d love them to hear Molly’s story, in Molly's words: We just had a book sale and a...

As I finished up my first round of analyzing the data from five years of research I was profoundly struck by how different each...

Molly began homeschooling her oldest child using online Cyber school and then a Calvert Curriculum that was quite comprehensive. But...

Traditional school learning is very driven by curriculum. I taught 4th grade for eleven years and curriculum played a critical role in...

Sofie and Michelle are two parents who used no curriculum at all and both of them had always homeschooled their girls. Their backgrounds...

Once, when homeschooling, I decided that for a whole week we were only going to study pirates! And that’s what we did. It was amazing. We...

Curriculum played a varied and interesting role in Nina’s homeschooling story. When Nina began homeschooling her girls, she immediately...