In addition, it has generated so many questions that it now has an ancillary homeschooling Q&A page.

If you prefer a resource page, try the excellent Homeschool Support on the Internet, by M. Tanis--or Karl's book list. They're linked at the bottom of this page.

If you know of an article or essay on the net related to homeschooling or problems with traditional schooling that you think should be here, please let us know.

• Love, A Big Table, And a Library Card
  Originally appeared in Minnesota Parent (January 1997).
  An argument against ... what else?
• Keeping a Homeschooling Perspective at Work
  Originally printed in September 1996 Home Education Magazine.
  Sometimes even homeschoolers long for the occasional luxury. Taking a part-time job poses special problems for a homeschooling mom.
• A Commuted Sentence
  Originally printed in Minnesota Libertarian.
  Compulsory education is no less than incarceration of our children.
• Dinosaurs vs. R.O.P.O.D.S.
  Originally printed in The Grapevine, the newsletter of the Minnesota Homeschooler's Alliance.
  This essay discusses the perversity of standardized achievement testing for the very young. R.O.P.O.D.S. is my acronym for required orderly progression of developmental skills.
• N. S. Gill's comments on state schooling
  Comments on the evolution of the American public school system and the absurdities we take for granted.
• Minnesota Homeschoolers Alliance At The State Fair
  From the March/April 1996 issue of Home Education Magazine.
  
  Edited versions of the following three articles appeared in Home Education Magazine. These are the verbose originals.
• Homeschooling From Birth
  This article was originally written in response to a request from a Twin Cities glossy magazine. Unfortunately, the editor didn't have final approval. According to the rejection letter, her boss said the article makes me sound like an overly controlling mother who doesn't care about her son's health. Go figure!
• Evolution of a Support Group
• Computer Learning

The stock argument in favour of popstponing the schooling leaving-age and prolonging the period of education generally is that there is now so much more to learn than there was in the Middle Ages. This is partly true, but not wholly. The modern boy and girl are certainly taught more subjects--but does that always mean that they are actually more learned and know more?
--Dorothy Sayers' The Lost Tools of Learning an essay in A Matter of Eternity (1948)

List of Authors

• Family Unschoolers Network
• California HomeSchooler
• California Homeschool Network News
• Eclectic Homeschool
• Homefires - The Journal of Homeschooling
• Homeschool Digest
• Homeschool Gazette
• Homeschool Headlines
• The Kossor Education Newsletter
• The Link
• Maranatha Christian Journal
• Practical Homeschooling
  lots of excellent pieces, but my favorites are:
  Joyce Swann's College at Home is a Bargain
  Douglas Wilson's Classical Education
• The Education Liberator
• Phyllis Schlafly Report
• Quest - The Canadian Home Educator's Digest
• TEACH a Publication To Encourange and Challenge Homeschoolers
• The Teaching Home

Has it ever struck you as odd, or unfortunate, that to-day, when the proportion of literacy... is higher than it has ever been, people should have become susceptible to the influence of advertisement...?
--Dorothy Sayers' The Lost Tools of Learning (1948)

Homeschool Support on the Internet
Karl Bunday: Bibliographies on Education Issues
Education Reform Writing
Of all the homeschool sites on this page, Karl's pages are the ones to which I refer most often. His references make research a breeze. Karl's site has recently been revamped. A TREMENDOUS improvement.
Photojournalist's website and essay
on one homeschooling family interspersed with rabid NEA sentiments
Rantings of Michael Shearer
See anonymous response: A Defense of Homeschooling.

I will say at once, quite firmly, that the best grounding for education is the Latin grammar. I say this not because Latin is traditional and medieval, but simply because even a rudimentary knowledge of Latin cuts down the labor and pains of learning almost any other subject by at least 50 percent.
-- Dorothy Sayers writing in the National Review.