Plans to force home-schooling families to register their children with local authorities are “not a good use of public money”, according to a member of the Local Government Association’s Children and Young People Board.

 HOME educators in South Lakeland are battling controversial Government proposals to monitor how they teach their children.The Children, Schools and Families Bill, headed by children’s minister Ed Balls, had its second reading in the House of Commons last week.

 A federal immigration judge in Tennessee has awarded political asylum to a German couple that was threatened by the German government with having their children forcibly removed from their home because the couple chose homeschooling instead of sending them to state approved schools.

 A US judge has granted political asylum to a German family who said they had fled the country to avoid persecution for home schooling their children.

 Ever flipped over an Iowa quarter and taken note of what's on the back? In case you don't have one handy, I'll describe it for you. There is a Grant Wood-style picture of a one-room schoolhouse and the words "Foundation in Education." Within one year of becoming a state, we'd started our first public university.

Sailor Abby Sunderland, 16, leaves Marina del Rey (California) in an effort to be the youngest person to circumnavigate the world alone.

In the hours before the 2010 legislative session opened last week, the presence of home schooling parents on the State House lawn was matched only by that of gun enthusiasts.

It's one of the more laughable attacks upon homeschoolers ever concocted. And it came courtesy of a handmaiden of the mainstream media, a feminist legal theorist affiliated with the Georgetown University Law Center.

Children's Secretary Ed Balls has defended plans to force home-educating parents to register with their local council as "very light touch indeed".

 Five months ago, Rebecca Arms joined an army of parents pulling their kids out of school to teach them at home.In Florida, home schooling is seeing its biggest increase since 2005. And in Central Florida, its growth is even more pronounced

 Kathleen Rubio has been a teacher for more than 15 years, but she has only had seven full-time students.

 The case of a Montgomery County couple charged with endangering the welfare of their four children for failing to file paperwork with the school district turned into a cause célebre nationally among home schoolers.

 It wasn’t easy for Michele Patton to make a decision to keep her children out of the public school system.Friends had warned her that the kids wouldn’t get the crucial social and educational skills they would need to succeed later in life and why a stigma against the practice should be all she needed to remain pro-public.

 Adam Caller, founder of Tutors International, a leading provider of full-time private tutors for home schooling families, has spoken out in support of government plans to reform home schooling in the UK with a compulsory registration process.

 A St. Charles County mother now has the final say in whether she continues to home-school her children, but a judge's ruling in a divorce case also suggests she find work to support herself.

 Legislators on Tuesday passed two education reform bills, including a cutting edge proposal that allows parents at failing schools to force wholesale changes.

A Montgomery County (NY) couple has been arrested on child endangerment charges for failing to register their children with the school district as they were home-schooled, the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office said Monday.

Someone once said that statisticians are the worst form of liars. In fact, that someone said it in a way much too colorful for a family publication!  Nonetheless, demographics and surveys sometimes give us a glimpse into the life of the body politic, and 2009 provided no shortage of such glimpses. Here are a few of them:

With time running out, Anchorage Archbishop Roger Schwietz has called all Catholics to actively rally behind a ballot initiative that would require abortion practitioners to obtain permission from -- or at least inform -- parents before performing abortions on minor girls in Alaska.

Parents who educate their children at home gathered in Sheffield city centre as part of a national protest against proposed 'big brother' reforms which could become law next year.

Imagine sitting on a plane with your wife and child beside you. Tickets in hand, bags packed and stored in the plane's cargo hold. A new life stretched out before you.Your plans are to move to the home country of your wife, India. Why? You want to allow your wife to be closer to her parents and your son to grow up knowing his grandparents. As a Christian, you have been led to work closely with Indian orphanages teaching them how to run more effectively and efficiently. The future appears satisfying and full.

Two Indiana women have been sentenced to probation after giving up their fight against charges that they weren't adequately educating their home-schooled children.

 When 7-year-old Annabelle Kirkpatrick studies fractions and converting pints to quarts, she and her mom go into their kitchen and start cooking.

The two women believed they were adequately home-schooling their children – using age-appropriate books and a computer with Internet access.  But according to the Allen County Prosecutor’s Office, Lila M. Ferguson, 38, and Molly M. Williams, 42, committed a crime...

 It's 1 p.m. at the CHEMinistry High School Co-op and 14 students are busy dissecting sheep hearts as part of their anatomy and physiology class.They're working at regular tables, sharing four microscopes, and if they need to heat anything up they'll have to use the stove in the kitchen. No laboratory, no state-certified highly qualified teacher, no MEAP testing.

 Home schooling is moving into the future. Parents now have a whole new way to teaching their children from home.

 A Montgomery County couple has been charged with four counts each of endangering the welfare of a child for allegedly home schooling their children improperly.

For the most part, Alex Jaeger, rural Cherokee County, is a normal boy. He loves computer games, swimming and karate class. On the other hand, not too many youngsters his age — he’ll turn 11 in January — are college freshmen. Alex will start a full schedule of classes Jan. 14 at Pittsburg State University.

Despite what many might believe, a vast majority of home-schooled children say they have plenty of opportunities for socialization with other children and, as adults, come to excel in all measured areas of adult life, according to a new study.

In a series of articles published December 17, 2009, by Detroit News writer Ron French, the case is made for curtailing a parent’s right to homeschool in Michigan.  Fortunately, these types of media attacks on homeschooling are increasingly rare because most people today recognize that parents have the right to educate their own children and that homeschooling is the most successful education movement in the country.  So when an article emerges from a major newspaper which advocates for significant changes in Michigan’s homeschool law, it warrants a response.