The ABCs Of Home Schooling
A number of organizations and publications
can provide interested parents with more information:
The Jewish Home Educator's Network
prints a newsletter that costs $12 a year The
group is "open to all Jewish families re-
gardless of affiliation or level of observance,"
and indeed its newsletter, with lengthy es-
says by members and a list of Jewish home
educators around the world, reflects that
statement. Members include everyone from
observant families ("Kosher home ... We are
interested in Torah-based home schooling")
to "vegetarian family, interfaith marriage."
For information, contact Marilyn Lowe,
The Jewish Home Educator's Network, 1295
Marshall Dr. SE, Salem, OR 97302.
C1°1-flora School ofAnn Arbor can provide
home educators with administrative services
and a private-school diploma. Contact the
school at 1289 Jewett, Ann Arbor, MI 48104.
Call (313) 769-4515; fax (313) 769-9629; E
mail, Clonlara@Delphi.com .
Growing Without Schooling is a bi-
monthly publication which costs $25 annu-
ally. The address is 2269 Massachusetts
Ave., Cambridge, MA 02140, (617) 864.3100.
The Home Education Press, which prints
various publications of interest to home-
schooling parents, may be reached at
1-800-236-3278, or via e-mail at HomeEd-
Mag@aol.com . The group also has an online
newsletter at EMnewsltr@.aoLcom.
morality and basic respect than
basic skills [like reading and
writing]," she says.
Joshua is older, though, and
has more of a voice in
his educational choic-
es. In this, he and his
mother have not al-
ways seen eye-to-eye.
A tennis star and
Eagle Scout, Josh is,
The Art of Education, by Linda Dobson
Ms. Baum says, "by all
Early Education at Home, by Jean Soyke
rights one of the most
successful students in
Home Education Resource Guide, by Don Hubbs
his high school."
The Home School Reader, by Mark Hegener
That's right. High
school.
The Home School Source Book, by Donn Reed
Before he became
bar mitzvah, Josh
The Relaxed Home School, by Mary Hood
made the decision to
The Successful Homeschool Family Handbook, by leave the family's Re-
Raymond and Dorothy Moore
form temple for a Con-
servative synagogue.
Soon after, he an-
nounced he was going
"Homeschooling 101," produced by the Colorado to high school. Next, he
Springs Homeschool Support Group.
hopes to attend a uni-
versity, where he
Above: One college
administrator describes home
schooled children as "above
average in everything."
Some Books
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