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Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesn’t help a human being to recognize that humanity is humanity, what is it for? So you can make a bigger salary than other people?

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New York Homeschooling

When you start homeschooling, you have lots to learn. Understanding the laws regulating home education in New York can be a challenge. We help unravel those laws, and provide the support, information, and ideas that parents homeschooling in New York need to successfully homeschool their children. Here you’ll find information on homeschooling methods, online resources, local support groups, events in your area of New York, and much, much more.

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Preschool and Kindergarten Math Games

These math games are designed for ages 4 and 5. Here you'll find pattern matching, counting games, and shape games.

How to Comply with Vermont's Homeschool Law

Vermont law specifically refers to homeschooling in 16 V.S.A. § 11(a)(21) and 16 V.S.A. § 166b. To homeschool under this statute, you’ll need to follow these guidelines. Necessary steps include sending in a written enrollment notice, submitting a narrative describing the content to be provided in each subject area, obtaining acknowledgement of compliance, teaching the required subjects and assessing your child annually.

Homeschooling in the Media

A more complex understanding of homeschooling is emerging in the mainstream media these days. No longer is homeschooling either all good or all bad. Simultaneously, there is a growing appreciation that most homeschoolers do a fine job raising and teaching their children, but that there are a few parents homeschooling children in order to hide abuse.

How to Choose the Right Materials for Your Child

Sonlight Curriculum gives some guidance to choosing the right programs for your child.

Unschooling.com

Get information and support from fellow homeschoolers by visiting this unschooling message forum. Discussions include resource sharing, video and podcast links, and discussion and support for parents who have chosen to unschool their children.

A Homeschooler's History of Homeschooling - Part 6: 1995-1997

This is the final installment of Cheryl Seelhoff's series on the history of homeschooling in America.

Targeting a Message: Homeschoolers and Social Media

Homeschoolers are actually not the easiest marketing targets in general. You might think that we are such a specific subset of the population that we basically have a marketing bullseye on our foreheads, but the truth is that people homeschool their children for such a wide variety of reasons that figuring out where we are coming from can be a full-time job in itself. The one thing homeschoolers DO have in common is their belief that by homeschooling, they are providing a customized education for their child.

Magnum Opus

Raising a large, Catholic, homeschooling family is a great work (Magnum Opus) and a great deal of work! Hopefully this email discussion group will be a place for parents of four or more to help each other with the nitty-gritty details of raising and educating a large, Catholic family.

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Questions & Answers with a Homeschooling Expert

What if you could get into the mind of a mom who has been homeschooling for 10 years and find out what she knows? What if you could get all your biggest questions about homeschooling answered— by her— in just 60 minutes? Now, you can.