Codie's Featured ArticlesDuring the past 20 years, increasing numbers of families have decided to pursue homeschooling as their educational option of choice. Here are some articles to help navigate through the various topics associated with homeschooling, including: the benefits of homeschooling, homeschooling methods, homeschooling curriculum, and homeschooling resources.

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Explaining Economics? – Q&A May-June 2010

HEM’s Questions & Answers – May-June 2010 “The financial meltdown has caused my daughter (11) to panic and hoard every penny but caused my son (14) to figure there’s no use saving and just spend anything he gets. Any time I explain economics it makes it worse. Any ideas?” – unemployed in Pittsburgh Your responses must meet [...]
 

Homeschooling History

Back issues of Home Education Magazine are available individually or in annual sets for the last ten years, from 2000 through 2009, but further back in our 27 year publishing history the available issues start getting a little thinner, and some issues can no longer be ordered. Only single issues are available for 2001, 1999, [...]
   

HEM on Facebook

There’s a new feature on this page, the HEM Facebook fan page – check it out in the middle column, under Around the Site. Home Education Magazine was one of the earliest homeschool companies on the Internet, going online in 1997. Beginning with one of the very first Internet forums, HEM has contributed immeasurable support [...]
   

Buccaneer-Scholars

HEM columnist Laura Weldon shares a beautifully-written post about an interview from a recent issue. In Calling Out the Buccaneer-Scholars she writes: I’ve been ruminating every which way about buccaneer living ever since reading a remarkable interview in Home Education Magazine between publisher Helen Hegener and James Marcus Bach. Bach, an internationally recognized expert in [...]
   

Homeschool Alien Births Elvis Clone

Okay, it is not true, but it has been an ‘inside’ joke for years at HEM. I ran across the headline just yesterday while adding a number of older issues from 1996-1989 to our Back Issue Sale. Reading through those issues is a glimpse at the history of our homeschooling community both politically, and in our [...]
   

Iditarod Curriculum

The 2010 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race starts the first weekend in March, and for thousands of kids across the U.S. and around the world, it becomes a fun and engaging time to track the teams and learn about math, science, history, geography, language arts skills and much more in the context of an exciting [...]
   

Homeschooling Dads

A collection of articles by and about fathers who homeschool their children includes some insightful writing and thoughtful perspectives on the subject of dads helping their kids learn. From Gary Wyatt’s observation that “Children need more of their fathers and fathers need more of their children,” to Earl Gary Stevens’ “For me the adventure turned [...]
   

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