by Diane Helfrich | Aug 2, 2021 | War on Homeschooling, NCHE Blog, Encouragement, Getting Started, Considering Homeschooling, Culture, High School, Graduation, Testing, College, Diversity, Reasons to Homeschool
by Diane Helfrich, August 2021 “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” William Butler Yeats In a nutshell, this describes for me the difference between homeschooling and public education. We discover and feed gifts and passions in our...
by JessicaFrierson2 | Jul 30, 2021 | Considering Homeschooling, High School, Discipleship, Young Children, Teaching Strategies, Reasons to Homeschool, Teens, NCHE Blog, Encouragement
Wouldn’t it be great if we could do an internship to prepare for life? Many career fields require an internship to gain the skills and experience needed in that field before engaging in it under their own auspices. Homeschooling offers just that: a one-on-one...
by Debbie Mason | Jul 26, 2021 | NCHE Blog, Young Children, Teaching Strategies, Reasons to Homeschool
by Debbie Mason, July 2021 When I decided to homeschool many years ago, I had one child who wasn’t even one year old. One of the benefits of homeschooling that drew me the most was that I could individualize her education. This was such an exciting idea. I could mold...
by Matthew McDill | Jul 23, 2021 | NCHE Blog, Considering Homeschooling, Reasons to Homeschool
by Matthew McDill, July 2021 When I was in graduate school, an amazing thought occurred to me. “This is such great content! I wonder if there is a way I could really learn or remember this.” I am sad to say that as a public school student, I had operated almost...
by Diane Helfrich | Jul 20, 2021 | NCHE Blog, Encouragement, Community, Parental Rights, Freedom to Homeschool, Considering Homeschooling, Culture
by Diane Helfrich, July 2021 We now live in a time where the government defines what is taught in our schools and how. While it has always been that way to an extent, we’ve watched the degradation of the quality of education over time. Schools accommodate learners who...
by Debbie Mason | Jul 16, 2021 | Encouragement, Considering Homeschooling, NCHE Blog
by Debbie Mason and Matthew McDill, July 2021 There are so many wonderful reasons to homeschool! Here are ten of our favorites. Keep an eye out for upcoming blog posts that discuss each of these more in-depth. [Links to these will be added at the bottom of this post.]...
