September 15, 2022 Culture Watch, Education, News
Kindergarten may be valuable for some children, but it shouldn’t be compulsory – and the studies prove it. This back-to-school season, many parents are eager to drop-off their kindergarteners to begin the ...
Read More » May 10, 2022 Education
The 2022 graduating class of Midwest Parent Educators. Julia Aubrey Cameron Barnes Kallie Brown Tanner Casto Lawrence Clark Emerine Cochran Megan Collins Noah Costlow Isaac David Ashley Fields Grace Fineout Sage Friedline ...
Read More » January 27, 2022 Education, National, News
School restrictions and closures during the Covid pandemic continue to fuel a rapid rise in the prevalence of homeschooling. In the spring of 2020, around 5.4 percent of households in the United ...
Read More » December 5, 2021 Education, Local, Missouri News, News
School choice remains a hot topic in the Missouri Legislature, with the new session starting in early January. Republican state Rep. Phil Christofanelli of St. Peters recently wrote an opinion piece for ...
Read More » November 18, 2021 Education, K-12 Education Guide, National, News
Researchers at Harvard University just released findings from their new study showing positive outcomes for homeschooled students. Writing in The Wall Street Journal last week, Brendan Case and Ying Chen of the Harvard Human Flourishing ...
Read More » November 11, 2021 Entertainment, Movies
The movie “God’s Not Dead: We The People” is another very bad entry in a very bad franchise. But after watching the film and speaking to its star and producer David A.R. ...
Read More » October 26, 2021 News
Condoleezza Rice, former secretary of state for President George W. Bush, said making “white kids feel bad for being white” is not the way to empower black children. Her comments came during ...
Read More » August 24, 2021 Education, National, News
Students are not the only ones feeling nervous as schools reopen. Many parents also may question themselves as they try homeschooling for the first time. Sam Sorbo offers encouraging words in an ...
Read More » August 4, 2021 News
Back-to-school sales are a sure sign that summer vacation is winding down. Many parents, however, will not be sending their kids back to traditional schools this fall. They’ll be homeschooling. “In Virginia ...
Read More » July 16, 2021 Education
Christ Prep Football seeks to build godly men for the next generation. We accomplish this by teaching core values such as confidence, courage, humility, and self-discipline. We use the disciplines that football ...
Read More » April 24, 2021 Education, Missouri News, News, Politics & Policy
Education bills pending in the Missouri Legislature address charter school expansion, public funding of private schools and homeschooling. The effort comes as the state nears banning the New York Times’ uber-controversial 1619 ...
Read More » January 27, 2021 Culture Watch, Lifestyles, News
A new Pew Research Center analysis finds more fathers are satisfied with the amount of time they spend with their kids. The survey comes as the coronavirus lockdowns required millions more dads ...
Read More » December 31, 2020 Columns, Education, News
When I was a kid, my parents let me play. I grew up homeschooled, so I had more time than other kids—the bulk of which was spent running wild. I did do ...
Read More » November 12, 2020 Education, National, News
According to a recent Gallup poll, the rate of homeschooling has doubled since last year to nearly 10 percent, while the rate of children enrolled in a public school declined seven percent ...
Read More » May 19, 2020 Culture Watch, Education
Many parents who are homeschooling out of necessity during the pandemic are finding that they actually prefer it. Forty percent of families surveyed are more likely to homeschool or virtual school after ...
Read More » May 2, 2020 Education, National, News
Homeschooling parents are “extreme religious ideologues” with “authoritarian control” of their children, according to an article in the May/June issue of Harvard Magazine. The piece, “The Risks of Homeschooling,” was written by ...
Read More » May 1, 2020 Education, News
The 2020 graduating class of Families for Home Education. Joslynne G. Adams Hannah G. Y. Alexander Keelin M. Anzalone Hannah G. Austin Daniel W. Berends Auttumn G. Blair Madalynn E. Boehner Rachel ...
Read More » April 15, 2020 Culture Watch, Education, News
Many parents are homeschooling now out of necessity instead of choice. Experts encourage them to give some grace to both their children and themselves. “As you start out, trying to juggle all ...
Read More » January 21, 2020 Columns, Education, Event, Missouri News, News
We each make thousands of decisions in our lives, from large (Should I get married, and to whom?) to small (Should I have that extra slice of pie?). But one of the ...
Read More » December 8, 2019 Education, Missouri News, News
Proponents of school choice again will have an ally in Jefferson City during the 2020 legislative session. The new Missouri House education committee chairman is focused on educational choice and says the ...
Read More » November 26, 2019 Education, Local, News, Sports
For the second year in a row, Christ Prep Academy, of Lenexa, Kansas. has won the National Homeschool Football Association Championship. Going in to this years’ tournament with a No. 1 ranking ...
Read More » September 12, 2019 Education, News, Persecuted Church
After refusing to send their daughter to a communist school where she was bullied for her faith, a Christian couple is now serving a prison sentence. The husband and wife, both pastors ...
Read More » July 2, 2019 Education
A german couple has regained custody of their children after a German court removed them from the home in 2013 because the kids were homeschooled. The victory in family court in Darmstadt ...
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