Matthew Hauck/Flickr Alison Davis doesn’t see homeschooling as some strange alternative to traditional school. If anything, says the mum from Williamstown, New Jersey, when it comes to raising her two children, she’s doing the sensible thing. “You’re not going to be put in a work environment where everybody came from…
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Head Start Programs Are Setting Children Up for Failure
In recent years, support for preschool education has grown by leaps and bounds. After all, who wouldn’t want to help adorable little kids get an early jump on success? But the enthusiasm for Pre-K dampened a bit with the release of two studies, one from 2012 which studied children in…
Why Dr. Gordon Neufeld Believes Children Learn More At Home
This TED video is a must for every parent to watch – I highly recommend it Learning follows attachment Why Dr. Gordon Neufeld Believes Children Learn More At Home. In his recent Rethinking Education TED Talk ‘Relationship Matters’, Dr Gordon Neufeld, Developmental and Clinical Psychologist explores the role close and…
2015 Homeschooling Statistics in NZ
The 2015 Home Schooling Statistic for 2015 are now on the MoE website. Homeschooling “This index page provides links to data on homeschooling. “As at 1 July 2015, there were 5,558 home schooled students recorded in the Ministry of Education’s Homeschooling database. These students belong to 2,916 families and…
NCHENZ Survey – please consider filling it out
From NCHENZ – National Council of New Zealand The NCHENZ would like to hear from all Home Educators not just members. The 2015 Home Education Survey February 2015 As you may remember we ran our first Home Education survey in November 2013. We chose to do this because there were very…