Home Schooling News

Since the release of the May 21 issue of Time magazine - the one with an attractive if rather indignant-looking young mother breast-feeding a nearly 4-year-old child on the cover - much of the country has been abuzz with both admiration and condemnation of the child-rearing philosophy called "attachment parenting." Known for its ... (more)

Between deciphering college financial aid awards and settling into a shoe-box sized dorm room with a perfect stranger or two, making the move from high school to college can be a shock to the system for even the most put-together teenager.

For a year, New Brunswick teen Jordan Grondin has been lobbying to get a statue of former Conservative prime minister R.B. Bennett erected on Parliament Hill, and he is anything but deterred.

Are educators looking at school absenteeism in the wrong way? A recent report says 15 percent of children are chronically absent.

A parents group is working to gauge support for a new charter school in Buncombe County for middle and high school students.

Four years ago, that was the happy dilemma presented by Denna Good-Mojab - who is now 15 and a senior by credits at the University of Washington.

Shouryya Ray, a 16-year-old German boy of Indian descent, solved a math puzzle Saturday that had baffled mathematicians for 350 years.

This story is contributed by a member of the Ventura community and is neither endorsed nor affiliated with Ventura County Star Danielle Rios and Kealee Reynolds have been awarded scholarships of $1,000.00 and $2,000.00 respectively by the Ventura County Educators' Hall of Fame.

Editor's note: This is part of a series of profiles of students graduating from Kalamazoo-area high schools this spring.

The Columbia Virtual Academy is a public school system offering Washington students that opportunity.

Bobbie Bouma, 12, listens to her coach during swim practice Wednesday. Bobbie's parents hoped to enroll her in online classes, but because Everett schools don't have an agreement with the district that offers the courses, she wouldn't be able to attend her local school.

Joanne Johaniuk-Milliman, right, of Rochester, plays chess and shares a laugh with her son Ben, whom she homeschools.

Corinne Griffiths, a retired sixth-grade teacher from the Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District, covers our students' accomplishments.

HISD's 2011 "Grads Within Reach" drive was able to reach former Austin High School dropouts like Javier Herrera, 19, right.

Young visitors and seniors in care centers benefit when they interact. For two home-schooled families, monthly meetings at an Inver Grove Heights residence have become much more than a service project.

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TEACHERS at their annual general meeting are looking for some guarantee distance-education technology won't lead to a loss of teaching jobs -- they fear one teacher could broadcast to several classrooms in the same school, with only a teacher's aide to supervise the additional classrooms.

Longtime Libertarian activist, Barbara Howe , will face Democrat Walter Dalton and Republican Pat McCrory this November in her bid to move into the Governor's Mansion.

It makes national headlines all the time, tragic endings as a result of bullying.

The Pleasant Valley School District and a former district high school teacher have won a new trial after being sued by the parents of a former female student who claimed the teacher created a sexually hostile classroom environment.