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Multicultural Homeschooling

Jennifer James

This topic features home schooling information relevant to African-American home educators, from new curricula and books tailored to African-American home school families to organizations and groups dedicated to improving home schooling in the African-American community.

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Multicultural Homeschooling

Part V: Virtual Racism

In the national debate about online charters, many homeschoolers cite several reasons why they disagree with blurring the lines between traditonal home schooling and public e-schooling. While many of these issues are relevant to black homeschoolers, there are an entirely separate set of issues that face black families alone. This article ...

Part IV: Supply Strain: Why Virtual Charters Cannot Ensure Equal Resource Distribution

Virtual charter schools promise the world to home schooling families: free computers and software, textbooks, maps, manipulatives and more. What happens, though, when these virtual schools recognize where their supplies are going? Will these schools send equal resources to black homeschoolers in a lower socioeconomic neighboorhood as a white homeschooled student ...

Part III: Taking a Hold of History: How Black Families Can Provide the Best Hertiage-Based Curriculum

One thing black homeschoolers can pride themselves on is their ability to give their children the best heritage-based education around. That can't be said about virtual charters. Read why.

Part II: Home Schooling Without Strings

Black families who home school educate at home for one primary reason: To give their children a chance for a brighter future. Home schooling is one of the greatest avenues for providing a stellar education for black children. But, can this continue if black families fall for virtual charters?

Part I: Free Folly: Five Reasons Why Black Families Should Resist Free Virtual Charter Schools

Virtual charter schools are popping up all over the country, providing free computers, textbooks and educational materials to any family who would like to enroll in their program. While this may sound great now, I take a hard look at how these schools are detrimental to black homeschoolers.

Learning: Not Always In Books

Most of us believe learning best takes place by reading books. This article teaches about the merits of observation learning.

A Reading Genius : How My Five-Year-Old Read Harry Potter All the Way Through

Many homeschoolers are frightened by the prospect of teaching their children how to read. Learn how I taught my daughter to not just read, but become a genius reader by age five.

Why Black Children Benefit From Home Schooling

Though many blacks are embarking on home schooling as a new educational choice, many don't fully know why home education tends to work for black children. This article will piece together clues that account for black children's affinity for learning at home.

The Choice To Homeschool: A Quick Primer For Black Families

When black families look to homeschool there are a lot of questions to take into consideration. Here is a quick primer to get you started.

But What If I Can't Homeschool!

Home education to an increasing number of families is the best educational option out there. Others argue that homeschooling is an option not conducive to every family. If you find yourself presently unable to homeschool for whatever reason, here are some tips to help you incorporate a modified homeschooling regimen into ...

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