As a grandmother of the early home education movement in North America, naturally I was concerned about the recent court ruling in California which basically criminalized about 200,000 home schooling parents lacking teaching credentials. Hopefully, if it is not overturned by the Supreme Court, Governor Schwarzenegger has promised legislative remedy: "Parents should not be penalized for […]
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Criminalizing Home Education - California
Published by March 12th, 2008 in Blog, Home Education and Parent Rights. 1 CommentHome Education Endorsed as Reducing Socio-economic Disadvantages
Published by November 15th, 2007 in Blog and Home Education. 0 Comments
“Canadian and American Policy makers should recognize the ability of parents to meet the educational needs of their children at home, without government involvement,” says Claudia Hepburn in the 2nd edition of Home Schooling: From the Extreme to the Mainstream (Fraser Institute, Oct. 2007).
The 24 page research document is worth downloading free from:
http://www.fraserinstitute.org/COMMERCE.WEB/product_files/Homeschooling2.pdf
I was a […]
Education: Let technology do the teaching?
Published by February 14th, 2007 in Home Education and Education Reform. 0 CommentsEducation Advisory, the service providing “consumer advice” to parents, sponsored 5 Home Learning Fairs in the 80’s to show how technology and parents could prepare students for the future. The following newspaper article was published in the Vancouver Province, Nov 03, 1985. From this article you will see how Education Advisory was involved in […]
Libraries are a terrific resource for parents, whether just starting or already long-term.
1) The children’s librarian can usually determine your child’s reading level, and recommend appropriate materials and books.
2) The reference sections have clipping files which you can access. There will be newspaper clippings, brochures, and other items on topic, probably with local stories.
3) The […]
Home education: the third option
Tunya Audain - April 1987, The Canadian School Executive
Tunya Audain is Co-ordinator of Education Advisory, West Vancouver, B.C.
An advocate of education in the home lays out the rationale–and forces us to think again about how children’s needs might best be served.
Home education is as old as the hills, yet it has […]
CBC online has a discussion of home education. Beatrice Ekwa Ekoko wrote the articles with reader responses added. Since people are asking me for my original article of 1987 which helped launch the movement I decided to open a blog to get the article out without having to mail out countless stuff.