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Other Homeschooling/Learner-Centered Support Groups
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Homeschooling Support Groups
- NHEN
"The National Home Education Network exists to encourage and facilitate the vital grassroots work of state and local homeschooling groups and individuals by providing information, fostering networking and promoting public relations on a national level. Because we believe there is strength in a diverse network of homeschoolers, we support the freedom of all individual families to choose home education and to direct such education."
- Rose Rock
"We are INCLUSIVE! We value and respect the different educational philosophies and diverse religious views of our members. Because we have different backgrounds, we require acceptance (or at least polite toleration) of all members. Our common ground is that we are all home educating."
- Family Unschoolers Network
"The Family Unschoolers Network provides support for unschooling, homeschooling, and self-directed learning. If you are an unschooler, homeschooler, self-directed learner, or just learning in general, then this is the site for you! You will find newsletter articles, reviews, resources, web sites, books and lots of other information to help your homeschooling or unschooling efforts."
- Unschooling.com
his Unschooling.com site we're hoping to support and defend and promote and encourage unschooling in all its many shapes and forms. We're creating a haven for unschooling families, a place to find answers, to meet friends, to discover resources, to read affirming essays when one needs uplifting. We welcome your suggestions and ideas, and we celebrate your family's unschooling adventures!"
- More Information About HSLDA
Do You Know All You Need to Know in Order to Decide Whether it is in Your Best Interest to Join?
- Eclectic Homeschool Organization
"The Eclectic Homeschool Online promotes creative homeschooling through unique resources, teaching methods and online helps. The Eclectic Homeschool Online is published from a Christian worldview. Articles and resources are not limited to purely Christian material. We leave the decision in your hands as to what material you choose to use and ideas you choose to incorporate in your homeschooling."
- Homeschool Social Register
It includes virtually every town and city in the United States (Canada will be added later on). Anyone who is homeschooling or thinking about it can list themselves on the page for their home town or city. And, the Register provides a method of contacting any other listed person without revealing anyone's email address or other personal information. Since the Register is organized by towns and cities within each state, it's a simple matter to locate others who are homeschooling in your town or nearby."
- Goddess Moon Circle -- Pagan Homeschooling
- The Learning Circle
An inclusive homeschool cooperative in San Benito County, California.
- Homeschooling Pagans of Virgnia
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Learner-Centered Support Groups
- Alternative Education Resource Organization
"The Alternative Education Resource Organization (AERO) is a non-profit organization founded in 1989 by education expert Jerry Mintz to advance learner-centered approaches to education. AERO is considered by many to be the primary hub of communications for educational alternatives around the world."
- A Coalition For Self-Learning
"The Coaltion for Self-Learning is a collective of autonomous individuals and groups each working independently but in mutual aid to help one another promote ideas and actions for creating learning communities and their relevance to social change."
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Homeschooling Publications
- Life Learning Magazine
"Life Learning and its forerunner Child’s Play Magazine have over 20 years of experience in the homeschooling field."
- Paths of Learning Magazine
"In Paths of Learning, educators, parents, and others write about the things that truly matter in teaching and learning: caring communities, a sense of place, values of peace, human rights, and sustainability, and a deep respect for learners' own passions, hopes, and quest for connection and meaning."
- Holt Associates -- Growing Without Schooling
"Holt Associates is a clearinghouse for information about homeschooling and the work of John Holt. John Holt (1923-85) was the author of ten books about education, including the classic of the 1960's school reform movement, How Children Fail. He founded Growing Without Schooling magazine in 1977 as a way to support homeschooling families and to provide a forum for them to communicate with one another. Soon afterwards, he founded John Holt's Book and Music Store, a catalog through which he sold books about education that he thought were especially good but that had in many cases been overlooked."
- Homefires-The Journal of Homeschooling
"Purpose: To provide information and resources that encourage families to make choices to learn, work, and play together. To provide support and networking for families who choose to educate their children at home."
- Home Education Magazine
"Home Education Magazine presents free online newsletters, discussion boards, a networking list, and selections from the magazine, including articles, interviews, columnists, resources, reviews and more!"
- Homeschool World
"The official site of Practical Homeschooling magazine and The Big Book of Home Learning. See the Home Life Catalog - your source for homeschooling and family products!"
- Homeschool Connexion
The Connexion is a web-zine (online magazine) written, designed, and read by homeschooled kids.
- Acorns
A Pagan Homeschool Newsletter
- The Link
"Our goal is to provide you with homeschooling information for FREE."
- Linda Dobson's Website
Has a great collection of homeschool success stories in several fields of note
- apricotpie.com
"So, I want to give home schoolers a chance to meet each other, and let themselves be seen through their writing and thoughts."
- Why We Homeschool
- John Taylor Gatto
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Homeschooling Portals
- Teach-At-Home
"Teach-At-Home has one goal, and one goal only -- to become the portal web site of choice for the homeschool community."
- VegSource.com
Discussion and Swap Boards
- Homeschool.com
"...a place where their parents can help them receive a 21st century home education using the vast resources of the Internet, online classes, advice from America's leading homeschooling experts and the support of fellow Homeschoolers from across the street or across the country: Homeschool.com -- your virtual homeschool."
- Homeschooling Zone
"an interactive global community of homeschoolers, afterschoolers and educators. Just about anyone who loves kids is truly welcome at the Zone. I would think that includes most people, at least the ones I want to meet."
- Easy Fun School
"This website provides free articles, resource links, a newsletter, and many other features to help make homeschooling easier and more enjoyable, both for the child and the parent!!"
- Homeschool Social Register
"The Homeschool Social Register is a free service and listing yourself on it is easily accomplished online in a couple of minutes. You can reveal as much or as little about your family as you wish."
- Homeschool Convention
"This online convention has all the dynamics of a real convention."
- Homeschooling....A Light at the End of the Tunnel
- Homeschool Central
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