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Despite the occasional protest, more and more schools are embracing yoga as part of their physical education curricula. And just as mainstreamed schools are flocking to yoga, so too are home-schoolers, looking to supplement their own P.E. programs with a...

Technology and kids.  Seems like they were made for each other!  Watching my young children easily navigate an electronic device or techno-gizmo makes me wonder if they were born with some innate knowledge or skill.  Point-and-click seems to come as naturally as...

Sometimes you may need Teacher Support for just a course or two.... Global Student Network (GSN) has a solution for you! NOW YOU CAN HIRE A CERTIFIED TEACHER FOR 3 MONTHS PER COURSE! That means if you need teacher support for a particular course, from any of our 6...

Any person who has ever purchased clothing knows this: One size does not fit all. What fits well on me will look ludicrous on my 6'1" neighbor, won’t fit my curvaceous friends, and certainly won’t do much for Daniel, my partner. There is no standard human, and to...

Is your son or daughter interested in a career in the U.S. Armed Forces? In 2011, HSLDA worked with Congress to include an amendment in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) to ensure that homeschool graduates could enlist in the military. Congress included...

The nation got to hear Taylor Beckham’s beautifully rich voice on TV’s popular “The Voice.”  Getting on the show with her blind audition selection of “I’m Going Down,” Taylor went on to perform “Can’t Help Falling in Love” and “Russian Roulette.”  She had the...

“Do we ignore the gifts God has blessed our kids with, and stay in our comfortable way of life, or do we step out on faith and see where God takes us?” It takes a lot of courage to ask that question and even more courage to follow wherever the answer may lead.  But...

Happy Mother's Day to the many homeschool moms out there!

HENDERSON, NV, April 26, 2013 – International Virtual Learning Academy, an online school for grades K-12, is welcoming students from Ablaze Academy, now debunked.  IVLA uses the same courseware as Ablaze did, making the transition possibly seamless. Parents of Ablaze...

By Kathleen Berchelmann at ChildrenMD.org I’m going public today with a secret I’ve kept for a year—my husband and I are homeschooling our children.  I never dreamed we would become homeschoolers.  I wanted my kids integrated and socialized.  I wanted their eyes...

Sounds too good?  Well on closer investigation, this claim actually proves true!  There really are colleges that offer programs at no cost to students.  One college even pays its students a stipend to cover living expenses!  Of course free tuition is mostly for the...

The Department of Justice is seeking to force the Romeike family to leave the U.S. and return to Germany. They fled Germany because they were persecuted for homeschooling their children which is illegal in Germany under a Nazi-era 1938 law. Germany is the only country...