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Other Articles and Reviews
- Lefty Parent, Living and Parenting Without the Rule Book, a blog by parent and unschooler Cooper Zale.
- Howard Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences
- Parental Patience and Children's Reading:
A Pilot Study of Homeschooled Children, by Karen Keys and William Crain. An article on late reading documents the success that can happen when you allow a child to move at his or her own pace, concentrating on the enjoyment of reading rather than on acquiring the skill. The authors also note that schools, with their high pressure approach of early drilling, sometimes lose readers who do not catch up later, unlike their homeschooled counterparts who catch up naturally when they are allowed to move at their own pace.
- Seven Sins of Our System of Forced Education , by Peter Gray, from Psychology Today.
- The Bitter Homeschooler's Wish List, from from Secular Homeschooling.
- School is Out
- "Standardized Testing Hits Home"
- "Kitchen-classroom conservatives" from The Economist. Quote from the article: "A generation ago, home-schooling was rare and, in many states, illegal. Now, according to the Department of Education, there are roughly 1.5m home-schooled students in America, a number that has doubled in a decade. That is about 3% of the school-age population. The National Home Education Research Institute puts the number even higher, at between 1.8m and 2.5m."
- "Home Run" from the New Yorker
- "Learning begins and stays at home" from Crain's New York Business
- "Teenage Bohemia" by Kaitlin Bell, on teenage unschooling. Be sure to read the comments at the bottom of the article.
- "Judging Books by Their Covers" by noted physicist Richard P. Feynman, about the general quality of school textbooks. Scary!
- Read (and hear) an interview with author and homeschooling parent Valerie Fitzenreiter on American Public Media.
- "It's time to educate New Yorkers on home-schooling", from the Daily News, 14 Jan 2009
- "Home schooling grows", from USA Today, 5 Jan 2009
- "HOME-SCHOOLING: Testing proves success of grads", from the Washington Post, 30 Nov 2008.
- "L'école à la maison". Article in French magazine Le Point, including an interview with Laurie Spigel. (pdf format)
- "The Anti-Schoolers" -- Home-Schooling grows in New York City. From the New York Times, 15 Oct 2008.
- "Homeschool Advantage" by Julia Israel in Time Out New York. And don't miss the note from parent Elsa Haas at the bottom of page two: "About the testing: don't let it scare you off if your child 'doesn't test well...' "
- Liberty Lyceum Gifted Homeschooling, Jennifer Dees's homeschooling blog.
- Unschooling by Laurie Chancey
- "Unhappy in Class, More Are Learning at Home" — Article from the New York Times (pdf format) / Text-only format / Partial translation into Spanish
- Letters in response to an article on team sports in the New York Times. (pdf format)
- Government report: Homeschooling in the United States: 1999
- An article on "Foreign Languages for Homeschoolers<"/a>
- "An A for Homeschooling", Brian C. Anderson, City Journal, Summer 2000
- "The Declaration of Educational Independence" by Linda Dobson
- From NPR: "Homeschooling 101:
Why We Do It"
- "Three Rs for the Nineties"
Videos & Films 
Going to YouTUbe and searching on homeschool brings up nearly 12,000 links!
John Taylor Gatto * Helen Keller * Sir Ken Robinson * Cevin Soling
John Taylor Gatto, a New York State Teacher of the Year, retired from teaching claiming that he was no longer willing to hurt children. He is a tireless campaigner for education reform. His books include: Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling (1992); The Exhausted School (1993); A Different Kind of Teacher (2000); and The Underground History Of American Education (2001).
An inspiring newsreel clip from 1930 of Helen Keller and her teacher, Anne Sullivan.
Sir Ken Robinson explores ways to connect peoples' natural aptitudes with their personal passions to achieve at their highest levels in education and business. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2003 for his outstanding achievements in education and the arts. Ken Robinson has written numerous books, most recently The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything.
Cevin Soling, an independent filmmaker, recently made an excellent documentary called The War on Kids that takes on the education establishment in a hard-hitting way. It won "Best Educational Documentary" at the New York International and Independent Film and Video Festival. The closing remarks in the trailer are made by John Taylor Gatto.
