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The Prussian Origins of the American Public School System 8 min

The world as her school room ~ AlisonsAdventures.com4 min

Infographic: Homeschooling by the Numbers

Seven Lies About Homeschoolers ~ BlimeyCow - 3 minAlso recommended:You Might Be a Homeschooler If...You Might Be a Homeschooler If...Part 2 You Might Be a Homeschooler If...Part 3 The Twelve Types of Homeschool Moms The Ten Types of Homeschoolers

TED: Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity? - 20 minAlso recommended:TED: Sir Ken Robinson: Bring on the learning revolution!TEDx: 13 year-old Logan LaPlante talks about Hackschooling TED: Gever Tulley: 5 dangerous things your kids should do TED: Sugata Mitra: Building Schools in the Granny Cloud Reason: Is Homeschooling a Universal Human Right?

John Taylor Gatto: The Ultimate History Lesson ~ Hour 1 of 5Hour 2 of 5 ~ Hour 3 of 5 ~ Hour 4 of 5 ~ Hour 5 of 5

Master Ayub's Park School in Pakistan ~3 min

PragerU - War on Boys ~6 min

How school makes kids less intelligent ~9 min

A surprisingly informative video about a large variety of schooling options ~21 min

The End of Play: Why Kids Need Unstructured Time ~30 min

Proverbs 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

Why Homeschool?

Benefits

Flexibility

Whether it's time, vacation, curriculum, or whatever, homeschooling offers a family the ability to make choices that are best for them.

Build Community

Homeschooling can bring families together with other like-minded families to share ideas, resources, and counsel. Homeschool co-ops are a great resource for meeting other homeschool families. When you homeschool and make an effort to find other homeschoolers, you'll find a valuable new circle of friends who, bringing their unique skill sets, are ready to help you succeed.

Learn New Skills

Taking Responsibility

Taking Responsibility for training/educating your children is part of loving your neighbor. The responsibility is yours...take it by the horns! When you rely on the State for your children's education, you're actually coveting/stealing from your neighbor through the agency of a government that is willing to use violence. If you doubt this, try not paying property taxes and see what happens.

Learn What You Didn't Learn The First Time

Customize the Learning Experience for YOUR Child

Education doesn't have to be one size fits all

Limit Indoctrination by the State

When YOU train YOUR children, you're not competing with the world as much as you are for their hearts and minds. If your children are spending 6 - 8 hours a day soaking up other peoples worldview, at some point you're going to have a problem.

For More on "Why Home School"? Watch the documentary film, IndoctriNATION, click here for trailers

School to fool Are schools and educational institutions used as a social tool?[1]

Schools as Tools Has someone used the modern public schools to mold the minds of America for their own purposes. [2] Printable 5" X 8 1/2" Pamphlets Standard 8 1/2"X 11" Print Friendly

School is Meaningless

Resources

Homeschool Laws in Your State
home-school.com - Lots of good information here about how to get started and connected with the homeschool community wherever you are. See the GROUPS link for co-op information.
Alliance for Self-Directed Education - Comprehensive, searchable database that contains listings of SDE-aligned schools, learning centers, co-ops, collectives, books, films, websites, workshops & training, professional services, and more.

General Curriculum Information

Free Homeschooling with Netflix, Amazon, and YouTube

Reviews on various curriculum, all subjects:

Also, check out her top 100 picks - the advantage to something like this site is that she doesn't play favorites w/ one curriculum provider. She chooses the providers who are best at what they do - making it easier to tailor your child's education to their talents & interests.

Critical Thinking Co.

Reviews & Additional Resources

Homeschool Rescource Catalog

Small company that puts together packages of some of the best curriculum, including educational toys, for birth through high school (yes, birth!)

Popular "Box" Type Structured Curriculum

Here's an example of a "box" type curriculum - everything you need to teach comes in a box from the same company....they do some things well & some things are pretty dry.....but sometimes a highly structured, scripted plan can help get you started.

Literature Based Christian Curriculum

Mennonite Inspired

Robinson Curriculum - Self-Teaching

Dr. Robinson K-12 Homeschool Curriculum. Developed by a scientist and his six children.

Classical Curriculum Online Courses Available

Veritas Press Online Courses Available

Tapestry of Grace

Classical Conversations

Sonlight Curriculum

Acton Academy

Prenda Microschools

Online Homeschool Programs

Alpha Omega Monarch program

Accredited Schools Online

List of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) For Homeschool Students

Acellus Academy

Oak Meadow

Steamed

Time4Learning

Breakaway Learning - Tremendous interview with retired World Bank development economist and home-schooling mom, Colleen Mascenik, creator of Breakaway Learning, a computerized program designed to help teens build customized learning plans around the subjects and issues that interest them.

Brilliant.org "Also known as Brilliant, is a website and associated community that features problems and courses in mathematics, physics, quantitative finance, and computer science. Brilliant is intended to discover and cultivate the mathematical and scientific thinking skills of students, professionals, and hobbyists around the world.[2] It operates via a freemium business model." - Wikipedia

Specific Course Curriculum

Mom left her tenured chemistry instructor position so she could homeschool her girls. She put all her content online for free.

Book: The Nature of the Atom: An Introduction to the Structured Atom Model

- Short video showing the shortcomings of the legacy "atomic" model of chemistry and why including electrical considerations is a much more holistic explanation.

Book: Chemistry of Essential Oils Made Simple: God's Love Manifest in Molecules

Makes chemistry easy and relatable by showing its practical value in the world of essential oils.

Economics

Stossel in the Classroom explanation // Stossel Classroom YouTube Channel
The Tuttle Twins book series
- Free Market Rules: Weekly curriculum from the creator of "The Tuttle Twins" to help learn the nuts and bolts of free markets and the ideas of a free society.
Kidpreneur Book and Facebook Group
Acton Children's Business Fair
Secret Millionaires - Entrepreneurial Video Training for Children
FI$H Economics uses vibrant animation and storytelling to bring economic ideas to life
Middle School MBA // Interview with the creator of Middle School MBA

Foreign Language

http://www.rosettastone.com/ Any language you can think of.

http://www.littlepim.com/ Foreign Language for the Little Ones - Get them started early!

http://www.memoriapress.com/ Latin/Classical Instruction

http://www.veritaspress.com/ Latin/Classical Instruction

Geography

Mapping the World by Heart curriculum Students develop a comprehensive knowledge of geography that allows them to map the world entirely from memory. Grades 5-12.

History

Tom Woods' Liberty Classroom

Consider podcasts on the subject...

The Dangerous History Podcast - History with an anarchist point-of-view - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Hardcore History - Dan Carlin is considered THE superstar of history podcasts.

History on Fire - I don't like his accent, but he's still better than any history teacher I ever had.

Martyr Made provides amazing detail about the history of Palestine starting in the early 1900s through the establishment of modern Israel. Totally altered my perception.

Maritime History - World history from the perspective of boats.

The History of Rome - Mike Duncan is the preeminent podcaster on Roman history.

Our Fake History discusses common lies and myths of history.

Books/audiobooks also offer possibilities

MY FAVORITE: Steve Berry is a former lawyer who digs out tons of interesting, forgotten, alternative historical details in his Cotton Malone series

Clive Cussler always weaves intriguing historical events throughout his novels. His protagonists always seem to have high moral codes.

Saxon Tales series by Bernard Cornwell chronicles the epic saga of the making of England.

Pillars of the Earth centers around the building of a cathedral in England during the early Middle Ages. This books starts the hardships and triumphs of several families. Later books follow later generations of those same families as the community around the cathedral develops.

Logic

http://fallacydetective.com/ Really helps your children to develop discernment. Cuts through the propaganda like a hot knife. Teaches children how to debate effectively.

Math

http://www.mathusee.com/ Uses manipulatives and videos to teach math

http://www.mathmammoth.com Math Mammoth: Very effective and affordable. Grades 1 - 12

http://www.TabletClass.com TabletClass: Amazing video math teaching PreAlgebra, Algebra, Geometry & Algebra 2.

Math Bot: Learn math by programming a robot - from counting to calculus.

Brilliant: See math and science in a new way

Reading

Teach Your Child To Read in 100 Easy Lessons I can't say enough good things about this approach. There are over 1000 reviews on Amazon. Rated 4.5

Science

http://www.apologia.com/ Creation Based Science Curriculum

http://www.superchargedscience.com Supercharged Science K - 12

Astronomy - Electric Universe Theory uses demonstrable experiments to overturn mainstream theory that depends upon fantasies like black holes and dark matter to fill the gaps in pure mathematical that have no foundation in reality. As this new understanding of the universe develops, it will completely transform our understanding of things like mythology, biology, geology, medicine, and more. These two interviews provide a good overview...

History - Video - Electricity can cause instantaneous fossilization

Mythology - Video - Symbols of an Alien Sky provides new, concrete foundations

Various Methods Overview

Methods

Excellent overview of various methods & styles of homeschooling w/ links to a few companies that support each.(There are hundreds more in each category though!). We did pretty straight classical for our first 5-6 years but have transitioned to eclectic & self taught as our children entered high school. Our pre-ks are getting more Charlotte Mason & Montessori right now & will probably stay there awhile.

Homeschooling on a Shoestring Budget

Just like the name says, homeschooling on a shoestring! No or low cost ways to educate your children at home....this link is actually more of the above as far as methods but the site has a lot more to explore...more below on free or low cost curriculum

Thomas Jefferson Education is an educational philosophy and a methodology by which great individuals throughout history were educated. Our family has successfully incorporated this philosophy into our homeschool. We started with the book, A Thomas Jefferson Education, and the articles on the TJed.org website.

More Resources

Books for Children

In this video Libertarian author Connor Boyack explains how homeschooling his own kids helped him discover the need for children's books that embrace the liberty/anarchist worldview. His Tuttle Twins series has started with children's versions of Bastiat's, The Law, and Freidman's explanation of the free market through the creation of a pencil.

Also recommended

Cubs to Bears Series

Three Friends Free, shows how we all use voluntary interactions in our every day lives and what happens when violence is introduced.

The Adventures of Jonathan Gullible by Ken Schoolland. It's probably more suitable for early teens. The newest edition is even designed with questions at the end of chapters.

The Uncle Eric Book Series which includes the popular economics lessons Whatever Happened to Penny Candy? and The Money Mystery: The Hidden Force Affecting Your Career, Business, and Investments

Articles

2022

2022-04-29 Home Ed Documentary
2022-01-20 Why This Texas Mom Started a Co-Op to Teach Her Kids

2021

2020

2020-09-18 The Truth Is Out. We Don’t Need The Public School System.
2020-07-13 Microschooling: The new way parents are getting creative about school for the fall
2020-06-29 Discovering the Joy of Homeschooling Because of Covid
2020-04-29 The Myth that Americans Were Poorly Educated before Mass Government Schooling
2020-04-24 High Schooler Builds Fully Functional Wooden Car Model in 300 Hours for Physics Project
2020-03-24 Coronavirus Forces Us to Ask, Is School Necessary?
2020-02-28 Get Children Out of Public Schools, Warns Arizona Education Chief
2020-02-24 Abolish Government Schools
2020-02-27 Low-Cost Private Schools Are Revolutionizing Education for Millions of Children in Developing Nations
2020-02-11 The Time For School Is At An End
2020-02-07 I Had a Gloriously Wild Childhood. That’s Why I Wrote ‘How to Train Your Dragon.’
2020-01-31 93 Vermont Towns Have No Public Schools, But Great Education. How Do They Do It?

2019

2019-11-07 The “Unschooling” Movement Lets Kids Direct Their Learning—And Shocker, It Works
2019-10-23 You can homeschool in less than two hours per day
2019-10-21 Micro-School Network Expands Learning Options
2019-10-17 This Family is Moving Into an RV for Travel and "Road Schooling"
2019-10-13 Homeschooling cuts about $2 million from Harrison School System's funding
2019-09-17 "Developed in the mid-1960s as an alternative to the consolidation of the public schools in Ontario, Amish communities build and maintain their own schools, provide their own curriculum and pay their own teachers. They do not accept any government funding. Some see a direct connection between the development of parochial schools and the very high rate of retention among Old Order groups." See Article
2019-09-06 How “Unschooling” Can Benefit your child and the world
2019-06-05 100 Reasons to Homeschool Your Kids
2019-06-03 Forest school raises free-range, resilient kids and happy moms
2019-04-23 The Value of a Self-Directed Summer for Kids
2019-04-19 I Wanted Unstructured Play Time for My Kids So I Started a Gang
2019-04-15 Homeschooled children are far more socially engaged than you might think
2019-04-01 Why Are Boys Still Attracted to Farming?
2019-03-25 How America Killed Play—and What We Can Do to Bring it Back
2019-03-21 Experts say we need to let kids get dirty and get hurt as part of growing up
2019-03-19 Parents - Stop Worrying and Let Your Children Climb Trees
2019-03-15 Is the College Cheating Scandal the Apex of the Over-Parenting Epidemic?
2019-03-13 How Inuit Parents Teach Kids To Control Their Anger
2019-03-11 How did socialism become okay in America? Through the schools
2019-02-27 Study: Kids Who Spend Time in Nature Become Happier Adults
2019-02-26 The Absurd Structure of High School
2019-01-22 Homeschooling Produces Better-Educated, More-Tolerant Kids. Politicians Hate That
2019-01-21 After Living Abroad, Kids Struggle With American Overparenting
2019-01-11 Sheltered Homeschooler Struggles Through Life And Settles For Marrying Miss Universe

2018

2018-12-10 Mom Entrepreneurs Share How They Homeschool and Grow Their Businesses
2018-12-03 Rage against the machine: programming the human mind
2018-11-25 How Schools Thwart Passions
2018-11-19 Why Kids Need Wilderness And Adventure More Than Ever
2018-10-29 John Taylor Gatto (1935-2018): Remembering America's Most Courageous Teacher
2018-10-12 Parents are giving up on public schools to home-school their kids
2018-10-05 Compulsory Schooling Laws: What if We Didn't Have Them?
2018-09-24 Stay-at-home moms and dads account for about one-in-five U.S. parents
2018-09-03 To Raise Confident, Independent Kids, Some Parents Are Trying To 'Let Grow'
2018-06-21 Our Children's Busyness Is Not A Badge Of Honour (And Why We Need To Change It)
2018-06-18 Learning how to learn: the last excuse for school
2018-06-05 Homeschooling skyrockets as more parents get fed up with Left-wing social engineering and violence in public schools
2018-05-30 Thanks, Google! Homeschool Co-ops Going Hi-Tech
2018-05-21 13 Ways Public Schools Incubate Mental Instability In Kids
2018-05-19 It’s Time to Focus on the ‘School’ in ‘School Shooting’
2018-04-29 What about socialization? The prison-like social dynamics of school
2018-04-26 The Perks of a Play-in-the-Mud Educational Philosophy
2018-04-16 Hard-Won Homeschooling Freedoms Are Under Threat and Must Be Defended
2018-04-15 How Learning Blossoms in a School without Schooling
2018-04-12 The Truth About Homeschoolers in College
2018-03-18 How school ruins kids and how it has probably ruined you too
2018-02-22 7 Reasons to Shut Down Public Schools Immediately and Permanently
2018-02-14 The State weaponizes education to create ignorance
2018-01-31 It Takes Humility to Learn Deeply
2018-01-28 A Thousand Rivers: What the modern world has forgotten about children and learning
2018-01-18 World's first ethnomathematics program offered at UH
2018-01-12 Five ways schools destroy children’s freedom (and what to do about it)
2018-01-05 DANGEROUS Parenting: Tips on Homeschooling from a Hollywood Christian
2017-12-11 Why You Should Encourage Your Kid's Very Specific Obsession
2017-12-16 We are born creative geniuses and the education system dumbs us down, according to NASA scientists

2017

2017-11-25 This is What Will Replace K-12 Schools and Colleges
2017-11-13 Education’s Future: What Will Replace K-12 and College?
2017-11-06 WeWork Wants to Teach Kindergartners to Disrupt Shit Up
2017-10-30 They Dream of School, and None of the Dreams Are Good
2017-10-12 I Teach at a University and I Unschool My Kids
2017-10-08 Reading Doesn’t Need to Be Taught – How Unschoolers Learn to Read
2017-10-08 Schooling Was for the Industrial Era, Unschooling Is for the Future
2017-10-06 Why climbing trees is better academic prep for kids than filling out worksheets
2017-09-14 Why I Don’t Want My Kids Going to Public School
2017-09-06 Compulsory Schooling Is Incompatible with Freedom
2017-09-05 Teen Suicide Rates Spike as Back-To-School Season Begins
2017-08-31 No Homework, No Lesson Plan: Why I’m ‘Unschooling’ My Kids
2017-07-20 How Much Money Each State Saves Thanks to Homeschooling
2017-07-13 Why School Sucks (hint: it’s not because it’s “boring”)
2017-06-29 Homeschooling for Free and Frugal: Teaching Home Economics for Free
2017-05-30 Why Valedictorians Rarely Become Rich and Famous -- and the Average Millionaire's College GPA is 2.9
2017-04-30 The best reason not to home-school your children
2017-03-16 Road Schooling: Ditch the Classroom and Learn from the World
2017-03-04 Several Texas Schools Tripled Recess Time And It Has Been Helping The Growing ADHD Problem
2017-02-23 What If Grocery Stores Worked Like Public Schools?
2017-01-03 Why Americans are Getting Dumber and How to Fix It

2016

2016-12-14 U.S. Kids Keep Getting Dumber; Ranked 31st Of 35 Developed Nations In Math, New Study Reveals
2016-11-12 The Dehumanisation of Children
2016-10-19 Without Self-Education, the West Will Probably Die
2016-09-25 Open Letter to U.S. Education Secretary King Who Says Homeschoolers Would Be Better Off in Public Schools
2016-09-16 These Elementary Schools Tripled Recess Time And Saw Immediate Positive Results
2016-08-20 Homeschooling is the smartest way to teach kids in the 21st century
2016-08-17 This Black ‘Family of Geniuses’ Show off Benefits of Homeschooling
2016-08-03 Wild and Free
2016-07-04 Homeschoolers Creaming Other Students on the SAT
2016-05-24 Are Homeschoolers Overqualified?
2016-05-22 Is Lack of Play the Reason Kids are Depressed?
2016-04-17 9 Elephants in the (Class)Room That Should “Unsettle” Us
2016-04-13 This is why those weird moms homeschool
2016-03-16 The truth about deschooling that will blow your mind
2016-03-07 Could Urban Farms Be the Preschools of the Future?
2016-03-01 Notre Dame Prof: Our Schools are Committing ‘Civilizational Suicide’
2016-02-29 The Truth About Gary North & The Ron Paul Curriculum
2016-02-18 [https://www.intellectualtakeout.org/blog/colleges-are-eagerly-accepting-homeschooled-kids You Are Here

Colleges Are Eagerly Accepting Homeschooled Kids]

2016-02-18 What changed this teacher's mind about home schooling

2015

2015-12-17 We need fewer exams and more wilderness in education
2015-11-11 Stanford researchers show we’re sending many children to school way too early
2015-10-01 The Joyful, Illiterate Kindergartners of Finland
2015-08-11 Why Teachers, Parents, and Society at Large Have Destroyed Kids' Love of Learning
2015-08-08 Amount Of Students Homeschooling Increased 62% In The Past Decade
2015-07-03 Homeschoolers: It's for the Children
2015-06-10 Playing with Legos is More Valuable than Learning Algebra
2015-06-02 Elon Musk admits to “Unschooling” his Children
2015-05-06 THE UNSAFE CHILD: Less Outdoor Play is Causing More Harm than Good
2015-04-07 The Five Tiers of Homeschooling
2015-04-03 Best Educational YouTube Channels for Homeschoolers
2015-03-31 School is a Building, Learning is a Lifestyle

2014

2014-09-29 How to Really Prepare Your Child For The Real World
2014-09-02 How do Unschoolers Turn Out?
2014-08-12 We Don't Need No Education
2014-07-12 What Do Grown Unschoolers Think of Unschooling? IV in Series
2014-07-02 Study: Too Many Structured Activities May Hinder Children's Executive Functioning
2014-06-20 Why Free Play Is the Best Summer School
2014-06-16 Homeschool Family Sends Seven Kids to College — All by Age 12!
2014-06-02 Study: Too Many Structured Activities May Hinder Children’s Executive Functioning
2014-03-19 The Advantages of Homeschooling
2014-02-19 Why schools are failing our boys
2012-04-16 Rewilding Our Children
2010-04-15 Kids Learn Math Easily When They Control Their Own Learning
2010-03-29 The Onion: Increasing Number Of Parents Opting To Have Children School-Homed
2010-01-26 The Decline of Play and Rise in Children's Mental Disorders

2009-09-09 Seven Sins of Our System of Forced Education

2008-09-08 Why We Should Stop Segregating Children by Age: Part I
2008-09-17 Why We Should Stop Segregating Children by Age: Part II
2008-09-24 Why We Should Stop Segregating Children by Age: Part III

Podcasts

Homeschooling Images

The Beautiful Simplicity of Homeschooling

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