• Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA)
• National Home Education Research Institute (NHERI)
• TeenPact: "Changing Lives to Change America"

Curriculum Options

• A Beka Academy - DVD/Video School
• American School of Correspondence: High School Education through Distance Learning
  Read a review by Jennifer Straw
• Christian Liberty Academy School System (CLASS)
• Christian Liberty Press
• ChristianBook.com Homeschool Mall
• Sonlight Curriculum

Articles

• Homegrown Education (by Gretchen Glaser)
• Home School Humor (by Josh Carden)
  when you need to see the lighter side
• Homegrown Success (from the Washington Times)
  reflecting on the nationwide study "Homeschooling Grows Up"
• Remember the "Why" (by Mike Farris)
• Crosswalk.com Homeschool Channel
• Homeschooling from Kindergarten to High School (by Jana Baldridge and Timothy Baldridge)
• Home Sweet School (by Jana Baldridge)
• Home Sweet School (by Melissa Howard)
• Home Sweet School (by Alisa Kolene)

 

Articles for Further Reading

• Homeschoolers in the Trenches (by David Limbaugh)
• Public Education vs. Home Schooling (by Jonathan Taylor)
• How to Spell Achievement: H-O-M-E-S-C-H-O-O-L
• Survey: Homeschoolers new political force (Art Moore)
• Four Types of Education (diagram showing why private home
  educators should not be regulated just because virtual charter
  schools or other public school at home programs take public money)

 

Homeschoolers at College

• College for Homeschoolers is Shaping Leaders for the Right (New York Times)
• Patrick Henry College - "For Christ and Liberty"

 

Miscellaneous

Worldwide Guide to Homeschooling 2004-2005:
Facts and Stats on the Benefits of Home School
by Brian Ray

 

 

Quotables

“You don't put baby tomato plants in the hot sun;
you keep them in a greenhouse until they have roots.”
-Mark Glaser's philosophy of raising children

"What parents teach stays with you always. 
What they fail to teach can never be learned from others."
-Family Circus Comic

“It is never ever possible to impart knowledge without imparting values. …Education can never ever be separated from its underlying values. I don't believe that you can even teach mathematics without betraying underlying values.”
-Rabbi Daniel Lapin, April 24 th , 2000 Focus on the Family Broadcast, “Reclaiming Traditional Values”

"Why do people who believe in and teach their children about God at home and in church put them in government schools that often undermine those beliefs? If parents would not put their children in a religious environment that does not reflect their faith, why do they send them into a school system in which faith and secularism so often collide, often to the detriment of faith?"
- Cal Thomas

"Were it not for the new counterculture--the millions of families attempting to raise moral and idealistic kids despite the deluge of decadence --I'd be in doubt about our future."
- Mona Charen

"Home-school teens could become one of the most powerful forces in American politics, rivaling the labor unions in effectiveness. The best way to train the leaders of tomorrow is to have our young people help to elect the leaders of today."
-Michael Farris

"Just how bad are American schools? And how deeply do conservative Americans distrust their government? One answer to both these questions is provided by the growth of homeschooling. As many as 2 million American students—one in 25—may now be being taught at home. The growth of homeschooling is all the more remarkable when you consider two facts. The first is the commitment of the parents. They give up not just a free public education, but also often the chance of a second income as well, because one parent (usually the mother) has to stay at home to educate the children."
-The Economist

"Concerned parents are wasting their time trying to reform a corrupt system. Parents should reassert control over their children's lives by pulling them out of the government schools. They should see that their children are educated according to their values and beliefs, teaching them the truth about history and every other subject the schools once taught but have now mostly abandoned."
- Cal Thomas

"In a homeschool environment the parents assume the direct responsibility for educating the children and preparing them for society. The focus is on the immediate family, which will last a lifetime, rather than a continually changing classroom of children."
-J. Michael Smith in the Washington Times

"In Texas we view homeschooling as something to be respected and something to be protected. Respected for the energy and commitment of loving mothers and loving fathers. Protected from the interference of government."
-George W. Bush

"No matter how good a public schoolteacher, he or she will always be required to teach the state's values and the state's perspective on subjects from sex to history and biology."
-Cal Thomas in The Wit & Wisdom of Cal Thomas

"The homeschool method offers parents the right incentives to produce high quality citizens, while other systems fall short of this ideal. The public school is free to continue its path, and taxpayers, who include homeschoolers, are free to continue pouring money into a fundamentally flawed system. Eventually, the truth about homeschooling will become common knowledge, and America will be able to regain its place of educational leadership as it moves away from the public school model."
-J. Michael Smith in the Washington Times

"The homeschool movement will likely exert influence in society
that is disproportionate to its size. Why? A key reason is its successes...
Mark Twain, Agatha Christie, Pearl S. Buck, George Bernard Shaw,
Thomas Edison, C.S. Lewis, Charles Dickens, Mozart, and Mendelssohn
are just a few of those in the homeschool hall of fame.
This list of famous home schoolers is just beginning."
-Christopher J. Klicka, 1992

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