By  Idzie Desmarais, I’m Unchooled. Yes, I can Wtite. I follow multiple grown homeschoolers on Twitter. Most of them are unschoolers who, like myself, had positive experiences growing up without school. But a couple of the people I follow had a very different background, coming from the world of Evangelical Christian […]

By PATRICK FARENGA /  GWS A homeschooling father and a journalist teamed up to write about the current state of homeschooling in America based on published scholarly research. Their effort provides an interesting snapshot about what is going on with politics, educators, researchers, and parents who are interested in homeschooling in […]

By PATRICK FARENGA Homeschoolers are often criticized for depriving their childen, particularly teenagers, of group socialization and for keeping them out of the real world, ensconced in a bubble of parent-controlled choices. This ill-informed opinion has not matched our personal experiences of homeschooling and there is plenty evidence that giving young […]

By PATRICK FARENGA I recently saw the film Being and Becoming with a group of veteran and new homeschoolers and it was a valuable evening in many ways. First, the film is excellent and provided our group with a lot of material to converse about afterwards. The film has a […]

Credit: Kzenon / Shutterstock.com As children head back to school, an increasing number of their homeschooled peers will be starting their academic year as well. Homeschooling in the United States is growing at a strong pace. Recent statistics indicate that 1.5 million children were homeschooled in the United States in […]

For some parents, home schooling helps to focus on a child’s individual needs, rather than just on grades. from www.shutterstock.com More parents in New South Wales (NSW) are choosing to home school their child. There are now around 10,000 registered children who are home schooled each year in Australia. In […]

By Patrick Farenga / John Holt GWS In addition to traveling to speak about homeschooling in Ireland and New York over the last few weeks I’ve been working hard to bring GWS V.1 into print and digital media. I’m happy to say that the print, Kindle, and PDF versions of Growing […]

Marble run by Pat Farenga It is all too easy, particularly in election years, to forget that homeschooling is a wide-ranging social movement, not a party-specific political movement. Conservatives, liberals, lefties, righties, greens, libertarians, and so on all homeschool. Social movements such as abolition, women’s suffrage, worker’s rights, civil rights, […]

Unlink WASHINGTON, D.C. – More parents than ever before are choosing to homeschool their children, driving a movement that’s grown by 62 percent in the last decade. The National Catholic Register reports that recent data from the U.S. Department of Education shows explosive growth in homeschooling among American families, particularly in […]