ACT NOW TO PROTECT HOMESCHOOLING!!  

In the wake of the recent appellate court decision holding that parents have no constitutional right to educate their children at home.  Assembly Member Joel Anderson, from the San Diego, California (USA) area, has introduced a resolution criticizing the court’s decision, and calling on the California Supreme Court to reverse the decision. One of the best sources of information on homeschooling in California continues to be Private and Home Educators of California, an organization we have worked with for many, many years. Their website is www.pheofca.org.

Homeschooling parent will find valuable and practical information on their site.

Details/Sources   Click>  http://churchstate.org/article.php?id=324  http://www.religiousliberty.info/blog/?p=71

 

Home Schooling

Home Schooling Achievement, a study conducted by National Home Education Research Institute (NHERI), supported the academic integrity of home schooling. Among the homeschooled students who took the tests, the average homeschooled student outperformed his public school peers by 30 to 37 percentile points across all subjects. The study also indicates that public school performance gaps between minorities and genders were virtually non-existent among the home schooled students who took the tests.[47]    Thomas Edison attended compulsory school for only three months.

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McGuffey's Readers  Books, 4 Levels

McGuffy Readers -- still available.

 

Even though there were originally four Readers, most schools of the 19th century used only the first two. The first Reader taught reading by using the phonics method, the identification of letters and their arrangement into words, and aided with slate work. The second Reader came into play once the student could read, and helped them to understand the meaning of sentences while providing vivid stories which children could remember. The third Reader taught the definitions of words, and was written at a level equivalent to the modern 5th or 6th grade. The fourth Reader was written for the highest levels of ability on the grammar school level, which students completed with this book.
 

McGuffey's Readers were among the first textbooks in America that were designed to become progressively more challenging with each volume. They used word repetition in the text as a learning tool, which built strong reading skills through challenging reading. Sounding-out, enunciation and accents were emphasized. Colonial-era texts had offered dull lists of 20 to 100 new words per page for memorization. In contrast, McGuffey used new vocabulary words in the context of real literature, gradually introducing new words and carefully repeating the old.

Henry Ford cited McGuffey's Readers as one of his most important childhood influences. He was an avid fan of McGuffey's Readers first editions, and claimed as an adult to be able to quote from McGuffey's by memory at great length. Ford republished all six Readers from the 1857 edition, and distributed complete sets of them, at his own expense, to schools across the United States. In 1934, Ford had the log cabin where McGuffey was born moved to Greenfield Village, Ford's museum of Americana at Dearborn, Michigan. In 1936, Ford was an associate editor (along with Hamlin Garland, John W. Studebaker and William F. Wiley) of a collection of excerpts from McGuffey Readers. This 482-page compendium was dedicated to Ford, "lifelong devotee of his boyhood Alma Mater, the McGuffey Readers."(see Henry Ford and the Jews, Chapter 1: McGuffeyland)

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