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Education Next added homeschooling to this year’s poll on school reform. Forty-five percent of respondents supported homeschooling, while 34 percent opposed. To further break down these numbers, 26 percent strongly…

The Heartland Institute recently hosted an event on the Parental Rights Amendment (PRA). Heidi Holan, Illinois state coordinator for ParentalRights.org, described court decisions that make necessary a constitutional amendment protecting…

As we approach one year of Homeschool Monthly, I would like to hear your ideas on topics you would like to see covered. Here are a few questions to jump…

Five-year-old homeschool student Edith Fuller became the youngest winner of a regional spelling bee, spelling 37 words correctly, including the final word, “Jnana.” Fifty elementary and middle school contestants competed…

A report from the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) shows the number of students who are homeschooled more than doubled between 1999 and 2012 to more than 1.8 million students. The data show homeschooling…

Students’ desire to participate in sports is often cited by parents as a reason for not homeschooling. Two recent stories provide evidence homeschool students can not only participate in sports but excel. In the Spartanburg County…

Heartland Institute Executive Editor Justin Haskins writes in his New York Post op-ed: “Hillary Clinton’s college-tuition plan is perfectly in line with her general economic outlook. That means it would…

On this edition of the Heartland Institute’s education podcast, your host, education research fellow and managing editor of School Reform News, Teresa Mull, spoke to Heartland’s own Lennie Jarratt, project manager for education transformation.

Welcome to the inaugural issue of Homeschool Monthly. I want to thank you for keeping up-to-date on developments that could affect your efforts and right to homeschool. I enjoyed meeting each of you at recent homeschool conventions and learning why you choose to homeschool your children.

Two recently released studies, both analyzing research from impartial sources, have come to the same conclusion education reformers have been pronouncing for years: School choice benefits not only children but society as a whole. It’s not surprising the Friedman Foundation for Education Choice (FFEC)—an organization whose mission it is to promote “school choice as the most effective and equitable way to improve the quality of K–12 education in America”—would release a study showing school choice is beneficial, but the data used by FFEC in its fourth edition of A Win-Win Solution: The Empirical Evidence on School Choice come from a variety sources, including many that are not tied to or in favor of the school choice movement.

The Northwestern University College Republicans and the Young America’s Foundation co-sponsored an event featuring author John Stossel on Tuesday, May 24, at 8:00 p.m. at the Leverone Auditorium in Evanston, IL. The topic of Stossel’s speech, “Freedom and Its Enemies.” In keeping with Stossel’s professed political affiliation, a sizable number of Libertarian college students were in attendance at the free event.

That was not what the power elites intended when they concocted standards and assessments intended to apply to all students, teachers, and schools. Their objective was centralization. But their arrogance has activated a hornets’ nest of angry parents intent on reclaiming control over their children’s schooling.

In today’s edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast, we listen in as Project Manager for Education Transformation Lennie Jarratt speaks in front of the Great Homeschool Convention in Cincinnati, Ohio. He discusses Common Core and its effect on homeschooling.