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Homeschooling or other options vs. Common Core means the former will win in the GOP. No surprise there.

The School Reform News, published by the Heartland Institute, found there are over 1,200 massive open online courses, or MOOCs, offered by over 200 universities and taken by an estimated ten million K-12 students. Florida is the nation’s leader in offering MOOCs, where students watch video lectures recorded online and participate in online discussion boards, […]

Apparently, some teacher’s union officials have taken too much public school math. “On a Saturday in May, members of the Michigan Education Association held a walk in Midland bringing attention to public school funding,” the Michigan-based Mackinac Center reports in the organization’s July/August report. “They claim education funding is down nearly $19 million in the […]

The homeschooling phenomenon is continuing its upward spiral.

According to researchers, disgust, dissatisfaction and disillusionment with the U.S. public school system is on the rise, so much so that the number of homeschoolers is on the rise.

A professor from a Lutheran college offers an interpretation of the crises affecting American families that is not frequently heard: Children need both parents.

The venerable NAACP has issued its first call to arms for education in nearly a decade.

Don’t look now, but Governor Bobby Jindal (R-La.) may be sparking an education revolution.

Creationism is often seen as a non-scientific theory in academia and among their liberal press counterparts, so it is not surprising that a recent Associated Press article takes aim at two homeschooling textbooks. But, for all the talk about home-schooled evangelicals and religious-themed textbooks, the reporter doesn’t let the audience into the true motivations of the academics he quotes.

School choice has long been a topic of debate among those concerned with American education.

A new report from the Department of Education’s National Center for Statistics says that homeschooling is growing so quickly that it can hardly be called an exception to the educational rule.

Homeschooling is catering to new, more diverse demographics, according to Messiah College associate professor Milton Gaither.