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Free Folly: Five Reasons Black Families Should Resist Free Virtual Charter Schools
Homeschooling, as I have written before, is one of the best educational options for black families in America today. This is so primarily because it places responsibility back on parents to provide a stellar education for their own children as opposed to blindly relying on others to do so. In this ..

Part I: Home Schooling
Without Strings
This is the first installment of the article: Free Folly: Five Reasons Why Black Families Should Resist Free Virtual Charter Schools

Since the passage of Brown vs. Board of Education over 50 years ago, black families have long held high repute for America’s educational system. Although many have openly expressed dismay ...

Part II: Taking a Hold of History: How Black Families Can Provide the Best Heritage-Based Curriculum
This is the second installment of the article: Free Folly: Five Reasons Why Black Families Should Resist Free Virtual Charter Schools

Black parents who home school cite several reasons why they do so. Some home school for religious and social reasons. Others home school merely for academic reasons. While others home ...

Part III: Supply Strain: Why Virtual Charters Cannot Ensure Equal Resource Distribution
This is the third part in the series: Free Folly: Why Black Families Should Resist Free Virtual Charter Schools

It goes without saying that urban schools in America receive less monetary school funds than suburban ones. Researchers and educators continue to cite unequal resource allocation as one of the primary, existing reasons

Part IV: Virtual Racism
According to a recent report from the Motherhood Project, the number one concern for black mothers is the education of their children. Without an exceptional education, black mothers know their children’s prospects for a promising future are diminished. That is why an increasing number of black mothers and fathers have decided....

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A Reading Genius : How My Five-Year-Old Read Harry Potter All the Way Through
Those who know me best know that there is one accomplishment in my life as a homeschooler that always makes me smile – teaching my oldest daughter to read at four. In actuality she was reading small words like cat, bat, and rat at three, but she was really a bookworm ...

Learning: Not Always In Books
When parents decide to become ho

meschoolers, one of the very first things that immediately comes to their mind is the amount of book work they will accomplish with their children. This can mean the amount of lessons their child will read, the amount of workbook exercises their child will complete and ...

Why Black Children Benefit From Home Schooling
With the educational landscape becoming more diverse in America, black parents are looking for better ways in which to teach their children. Although black children have statistically lagged far behind their peers of other races in various school settings; be it public, private, or charter schools, statistics show that they fare ...

The Choice To Homeschool: A Quick Primer For Black Families
A new movement is brewing in the African-American community and it is inciting scores of families across the country to make the transition to home education or consider it as the first educational option for their pre-kindergarten children. Citing cultural, educational, religious as well as social reasons, thousands of African-American parents ...

But What If I Can't Homeschool!
There’s no question -- not every family is able to homeschool. Every family’s situation is unique and sometimes that means it is impossible for some families to school at home. If you find yourself presently in a situation not conducive to homeschooling here are some easily adaptable suggestions and ideas for ...

Beyond Statistics: A Real Look At Black Homeschoolers
In the past couple of years the news has been inundated with national, international and local articles reporting the dramatic rise of homeschooling in the African-American community. From small community newspapers to national television networks, the media has done its share of highlighting the growing numbers of African-American families who are ...

Home School Mom Creates Multicultural Educational Products That Celebrate Differences
It's no secret. Mothers will go to extraordinary lengths to ensure that their children are happy in today's world. As best they can mothers shield their little ones from the negativity that adults are all too aware of.

Entomology For Kids
On any given day, our kitchen can instantly be transformed into a science lab and my preschooler and toddler love it. They particularly enjoy the days when I conduct our entomology lessons and I have to admit it is one of my favorite lessons to teach as well.

How To Juggle Being a Home School Mother and a Home School Leader
There is nothing more fulfilling than to witness your child excelling at the highest academic levels possible. It is equally rewarding to see your home schooled child immersed in an active, socially-sustainable home school organization or support group. To achieve this, moms oftentimes assume roles as both home school teachers as ...

Black Families Online
If you are a Black parent looking online for multicultural educational tools, where do you go? Google? Yahoo? MSN? Those were the correct answers and only resorts until today. Instead of searching through irrelevant site after irrelevant site, all you need to have is a copy of <b>Black Families Online: Directory ...

Web Presence for African-American Homeschoolers
Creating a web presence of African-American home school support groups will do much to organize and network families across the country and internationally. What word of mouth did five years ago today the Internet can do in five minutes and that is precisely why websites and online groups are so vital ...

Creating African-American Home School Support Groups
Currently, one of the biggest obstacles facing the African-American home schooling community is the lack of support groups geared toward African-American homeschoolers on the local and state levels. Arguably, there are a variety of valid reasons for the near absence of organized African-American support groups ranging from the newness of the ...

Trends in African-American Home Schooling
It’s 7:30 on a typical Monday morning and thousands of African-American children are not headed to the bus stop or being dropped off at school, but rather, they are headed to their kitchen table or to their in-home classroom. These children are home schooled and today there are more African-American home ...

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