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18 Reasons Why Doctors and Lawyers Homeschool Their Children |
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Conscious Life News |
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The face of homeschooling is changing. We are not all religious extremists or farmers, and our kids are not all overachieving academic nerds without social skills. This article outlines some of the practical advantages of homeschooling. |
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5 Ways Moms Benefit From Homeschooling Their Kids |
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Michelle Maffei |
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While many debate the kid-centered advantages of homeschool, teaching your kids at home comes with a bundle of benefits for stay-at-home moms too. Discover five ways real moms benefit from homeschooling their kids.
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Benefits of Homeschooling |
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This article addresses some of the reasons why homeschooling is good for a Jewish family in the 21st century.
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Benefits of Homeschooling: How It Could Make Kids Smarter |
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Many parents choose to teach their children at home, instead of enrolling them and making them study within the formal settings of public or private schools. With homeschooling, the parents take full responsibility of their children’s education. It is intense parenting, as parents spend more time with their children, doing the hard work and having the patience to educate their kids.
Mitchell Stevens, a Stanford professor who wrote Kingdom of Children, a history of homeschooling, reveals that homeschooling, which was used to be popular in rural areas, is now being practiced widely in America’s cities as well, with children of secular, highly educated professionals as students. Advances in digital learning and availability of resources over the internet also make homeschooling easier and more effective than ever.
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Research Shows Benefits of Homeschooling |
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Dr. Raymond S. Moore |
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Home education at its best, is seldom well understood by writers and even by many within the homeschool movement. As the one whose research is generally credited for the founding of this fast-growing educational phenomenon, Dr. Moore clarifies a few crucial points about homeschooling.Although it plays a key role among most homeschool families, religion is no longer the overriding reason for it, but rather quality education and family togetherness. |
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Teacher of the Year Acceptance Speech |
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John Taylor Gatto |
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This is the text of a speech by John Taylor Gatto accepting the New York City Teacher of the Year Award on January 31, 1990. From the speech: "Family is the main engine of education. If we use schooling to break children away from parents...we're going to continue to have the horror show we have right now. The curriculum of family is at the heart of any good life. We've gotten away from that curriculum--time to return to it...Time for a return to Democracy, Individuality, and Family." |
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The 3 Biggest Social Benefits of Homeschooling |
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Alexandra Martinez |
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Without fail, telling someone you are homeschooling your children will promptly be followed by the question, "Aren't you worried about socialization?" Here are three social benefits to homeschooling. |
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The Benefits of Homeschooling: Top Ten Reasons for Homeschooling |
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Homeschoolers are often asked about why they homeschool. This veteran homeschoolers has come up with her top ten reasons for homeschooling: education, freedom, family and love, morals and values, independence, socialization, health, passion, creativity and imagination, and play. |
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The Home-School Advantage |
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This New York Times articles is written by a veteran homeschooler who believes that home-schooling has a significant advantage in combating the pressure schools place on children.
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What Are the Advantages of Home Schooling? |
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Dr. Brian Ray from NHERI provides another great study of the advantages of homeschooling and the research that shows that students in structured homeschooling academically outperform conventional-school students, and there is no evidence that the difference is simply due to the family’s income or the mother’s educational attainment. |
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Why I Homeschool |
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Amy Thornton-Kelly |
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There is a lot of pressure to encourage children to be independent when the school bus arrives, but often our children are too young to force separation. Many children can discover their independence in their own time. |
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