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homeschooling

Interview: Dixie Dillon Lane’s book, Skipping School, is under contract

Dixie Dillon Lane and Nadya Williams   |  September 24, 2024

A homeschooling mother, who also happens to be a historian of homeschooling, updates us on her book project and more.

Gift guide: What to give homeschooling parents whose preschoolers are causing mayhem

Dixie Dillon Lane   |  August 29, 2024

Homeschooling preschool doesn’t require a curriculum in a box. It does require a plan.

My reflections on homeschooling in Christianity Today

Nadya Williams   |  August 1, 2024

The modern life is much too compartmentalized. It isn’t good for us.

Susan Wise Bauer on her experience at Liberty University

John Fea   |  March 6, 2024

Some of you know Susan Wise Bauer as a gifted narrative historian and one of the leaders of the classical homeschool movement. I don’t know many homeschoolers who have not read her book The Well Trained-Mind: A Guide to Classical […]

Demystifying the world of (mostly) Christian homeschooling: links roundup

Nadya Williams   |  November 3, 2023

This is a roundup of essays on homeschooling by homeschooling parents at Current, The Arena, and several other publications.

Putting the “home” back in homeschooling policy

Nadya Williams   |  October 17, 2023

A reminder to critics of homeschooling: homeschooling happens at home, and that is important.

Colleges with the highest percentage of homeschoolers

Nadya Williams   |  September 26, 2023

Yesterday on his blog, John Fea highlighted the chart that sociologist Ryan Burge had generated from the study done by FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression) about colleges with the highest percentage of students who had been homeschooled. First, […]

If you were homeschooled, there is a good a chance you attend either Liberty University or Hillsdale College

John Fea   |  September 25, 2023

Here is Ryan Burge, the religion and politics numbers guy, referencing a study at TheFire.org, the website of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression: More from Burge here.

Who’s to blame?

Jon D. Schaff   |  August 24, 2023

Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord,The fruit of the womb is a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior,So are the children of one’s youth. Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them;They shall not be ashamed,But shall speak with their enemies in the […]

Unschooling: homeschooling gone wild(er)

Nadya Williams   |  July 19, 2023

A few years ago, there was a massive row among the parents in one of the local homeschool co-ops we knew about, and it ended with the dissolution of the group. I heard about it a while later from one […]

Ideas in progress: Dixie Dillon Lane on parenting, homeschooling, and writing while juggling

Dixie Dillon Lane   |  April 21, 2023

You are a historian and a homeschool mom of four. What does a “typical” day look like for you? I roll through my day like a boulder careening down an unpredictable hill. I place a lot of structure on my […]

Ivana Greco on homeschooling: today at the Institute for Family Studies blog

Dixie Dillon Lane   |  April 20, 2023

It is strange, but patently true, that young boys often learn best while upside down.  Or if they aren’t upside down, they often need to be moving, or at least doing something with their hands. Their proprioceptive, vestibular, and optical […]