“The Simple Homeschool Offers Fun Interactive Curriculum for Homeschooling Families (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)” plus 3 more |
- The Simple Homeschool Offers Fun Interactive Curriculum for Homeschooling Families (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
- German homeschooling family allowed to stay in Tennessee (WBIR-TV Knoxville)
- Speaker to talk about burnout (The Signal)
- German homeschoolers granted political asylum (AP via Yahoo! News)
| Posted: 26 Jan 2010 10:00 AM PST Homeschooling parents have a new high tech option with interactive homeschool curriculum. (PRWEB) January 26, 2010 -- The Simple Homeschool, parent company of Simple Schooling Homeschool Curriculum, announced the creation of the new interactive online format at The Simple Schooling Classroom. This new program provides homeschooling parents the opportunity to use state of the art e-learning in their homeschools at an affordable price. "Right now we are focusing on interactive unit studies for grades K through 12, but we will be transferring over our most popular year long courses such as Middle School Physics and Anatomy and Physiology early this summer. In addition, all of the interactivities have been evaluated for their potential to teach and have been mapped to various instructional design methodologies such as Bloom's Taxonomy, Gagne's Nine Events, and Experiential Theory," said The Simple Homeschool publisher, J. Anne Huss. The Simple Schooling Classroom is designed to alleviate some of the stress that goes along with family education. The interactive unit studies are easy for parents to implement because they require no prep work. They also engage children in learning and take into account all learning styles including visual, auditory, and kinesthetic which helps in grasping concepts and retaining knowledge. The interactive classroom, which opened last week, offers high interest homeschool unit study topics in areas such as life science, physical science, earth science, and ancient history. They are created using the same e-learning authoring tools that Fortune 500 companies and major universities use for online learning. As a bonus, The Classroom offers one new unit study to subscribing members at no cost each week, adding significantly to the return on investment for parents who must purchase new homeschool curriculum each year. "No other homeschool curriculum on the market does that now," said Huss. "The government does not give homeschoolers a tax break for not using public resources, so we want to make sure we provide an exceptional value which will exceed the highest expectations of homeschool parents 100% of the time." Homeschoolers can get a free trial of the curriculum to see first hand how it will simplify their homeschool routine. # # # The Simple Homeschool Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| German homeschooling family allowed to stay in Tennessee (WBIR-TV Knoxville) Posted: 26 Jan 2010 07:44 PM PST A German couple who fled to Tennessee so they could homeschool their children have been granted political asylum by a U.S. immigration judge. The decision, announced Tuesday in Memphis, clears the way for Uwe Romeike, his wife and five children to stay in Morristown, where they have been living since 2008. German state constitutions require children to attend public or private schools and parents can face fines or prison time if they don't comply. Romeike, an evangelical Christian, said he believes German curriculum is "against Christian values." Attorney Mike Donnelly of the Home School Legal Defense Association advocacy group said he hopes the ruling will influence public opinion in Germany. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Speaker to talk about burnout (The Signal) Posted: 27 Jan 2010 09:08 AM PST
By Signal Staff Posted: Jan. 26, 2010 11:12 p.m. The Huckleberry Center for Creative Learning will host a talk by Tammy Takahashi from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. on Feb. 21 at Barnes & Noble in Valencia. She will discuss how the Santa Clarita Valley's homeschooling community can understand and deal with burnout. Coffee and refreshments will be provided. For more information, call Elizabeth Johnson at (661) 288-2312. Barnes & Noble is located at 23620 Valencia Blvd.
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| German homeschoolers granted political asylum (AP via Yahoo! News) Posted: 26 Jan 2010 05:33 PM PST NASHVILLE, Tenn. – A German couple who fled to Tennessee so they could homeschool their children was granted political asylum Tuesday by a U.S. immigration judge, according to the legal group that represented them. The decision clears the way for Uwe Romeike (roh-MY-kee), his wife and five children to stay in Morristown, Tenn., where they have been living since 2008. Romeike says his family was persecuted for their evangelical Christian beliefs and for homeschooling their children in Germany, where school attendance is compulsory. When the Romeikes wouldn't comply with repeated orders to send the children to school, police came to their home one October morning in 2006 and took the children to school. German state constitutions require children to attend public or private schools and parents can face fines or prison time if they don't comply. In November 2007, Germany's highest appellate court ruled that, in severe cases, social services officials could remove children from their parents. After that decision, Romeike said, "We knew we had to leave the country." "During the last 10-20 years the curriculum in public schools has been more and more against Christian values," he said of his decision to teach his children at home. The U.S. government can appeal the asylum ruling. A spokesman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement declined to comment in an e-mail. The ruling was issued by Immigration Judge Lawrence Burman in Memphis, said Mike Donnelly, an attorney for the Home School Legal Defense Association. The judge's opinion was not immediately available. Lutz Gorgens, German consul general for the Southeast U.S., did not directly address the ruling in a statement e-mailed after the ruling Tuesday, but said German parents have a wide range of educational options for their children. Gorgens said the mandatory school attendance policy ensures a high standard of learning for all children. "Parents may choose between public, private and religious schools, including those with alternative curricula like Waldorf or Montessori schools," said Gorgens, who's based in Atlanta. Donnelly said he hopes the ruling will influence public opinion in Germany, and that is part of the reason his group offered to represent the Romeikes. Romeike said in an interview that when his oldest children were in public schools they had problems with violence, bullying and peer pressure. "I think it's important for parents to have the freedom to chose the way their children can be taught," Romeike said. The Romeikes took their three oldest children out of school in Bietigheim-Bissingen in the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg in 2006. Romeike said the couple was fined the equivalent of about $10,000 over a two-year period. "We didn't pay it all because we couldn't," he said. "We went to court and tried to fight against it — without success." Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
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