Home Education Magazine Sept-Oct, 2011 : Page 6

HEM Notebook Home Education Magazine News • Home Education Magazine is going digital! See the ad below or visit our website for complete information and updates about the new digital edition of this magazine: http:homeedmag.com Digital editions of magazines are format-ted identically to the print versions, and have special benefits such as being environ-mentally friendly and offering interactive elements such as links to additional infor-mation and resources for readers. • HEM publisher Helen Hegener has been involved for several months with a law suit brought by Mimi Rothschild, Howard Mandel, and Learning by Grace. The offi-cial caption for the suit is LEARNING BY GRACE, INC. et al v. IDONI . Information and court documents are available at this website: http://.homeedmag.com/lbgetalvi-doni/ For further information about this law-suit see the editorial on page 3 of this issue. • In conjunction with this lawsuit the HEM website experienced serious technical difficulties in early September. If you tried to place an order, or to contact us about an order, a subscription, a renewal or any other cus-tomer service issue, there is a chance we did not receive your information. Our email addresses were affected by this interrup-tion, so if you sent us an email and did not receive a reply, please get in touch with us again, and thank you for under-standing. • In September our friends at Holt Associates shared an exciting announcement: “Holt Associates Inc. announced today that all issues of its historic magazine, Growing Without Schooling (GWS), are now available for free public access at its website, www.holtgws.com. Growing Without Schooling was the nation’s first magazine about homeschooling, unschooling, and learn-ing outside of school, founded by the late author/teacher John Holt in 1977.” John passed away in 1985. We are delighted to have a feature section in this issue highlight-ing John Holt and his work, and we are grate-ful to Patrick Farenga, president of Holt Asso-ciates Inc., for sharing several delightful new photos of John with HEM’s readers. Home Education Magazine A trusted name in homeschooling Digital Edition Now Available! For over 28 years Home Education Magazine has kept up with the changing times homeschoolers face while remaining rooted in its core. In this spirit HEM announces that a digital edition is now available for subspcription. Digital subscribers have access to a year’s issues online plus also will have access to HEM content never published online before. Print: 1 Year -$26.00 -2 Years -$48.00 Digital: 1 Year -$12.95 • 1 Year Digital & Print -$32.00 POB 1083, Tonasket, WA 98855 • Check, MO, PO, PayPal, Visa/MC/Discover 1-800-236-3278 To order online visit: homeedmag.com/ord/order.html 6 September-October 2011 • Home Education Magazine homeedmag.com

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Home Education Magazine News • Home Education Magazine is going digital! See the ad below or visit our website for complete information and updates about the new digital edition of this magazine: http:homeedmag.com Digital editions of magazines are formatted identically to the print versions, and have special benefits such as being environmentally friendly and offering interactive elements such as links to additional information and resources for readers. • HEM publisher Helen Hegener has been involved for several months with a law suit brought by Mimi Rothschild, Howard Mandel, and Learning by Grace. The official caption for the suit is LEARNING BY GRACE, INC. et al v. IDONI. Information and court documents are available at this website: http://.homeedmag.com/lbgetalvidoni/ For further information about this lawsuit see the editorial on page 3 of this issue. • In conjunction with this lawsuit the HEM website experienced serious technical difficulties in early September. If you tried to place an order, or to contact us about an order, a subscription, a renewal or any other customer service issue, there is a chance we did not receive your information. Our email addresses were affected by this interruption, so if you sent us an email and did not receive a reply, please get in touch with us again, and thank you for understanding. • In September our friends at Holt Associates shared an exciting announcement: “Holt Associates Inc. announced today that all 6 September-October 2011 • Home Education Magazine homeedmag.com HEM Notebook issues of its historic magazine, Growing Without Schooling (GWS), are now available for free public access at its website, www.holtgws.com. Growing Without Schooling was the nation’s first magazine about homeschooling, unschooling, and learning outside of school, founded by the late author/teacher John Holt in 1977.” John passed away in 1985. We are delighted to have a feature section in this issue highlighting John Holt and his work, and we are grateful to Patrick Farenga, president of Holt Associates Inc., for sharing several delightful new photos of John with HEM’s readers. Homeschooling News & Info • Homeschooling and unschooling have continued to be featured frequently in the national media, and these articles and news stories are often reported and commented on at HEM’s popular Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/HomeEducationMagazine • The National Home Education Network exists to encourage and facilitate the vital grassroots work of state and local homeschooling organizations and individuals by providing information, fostering networking and promoting public relations on a national level. Because we believe there in strength in a diverse nework of homeschoolers, we support the freedom of all individual families to choose home education and to direct such education. ~NHEN Mission Statement. For more information about NHEN’s work for homeschooling families visit their newly revised web site: http://nhen.org • “Unschooling is a movement that turns conventional thinking about education upside down.” This was the introduction to a survey invitation published in September at Dr. Peter Gray’s Freedom to Learn blog for the magazine Psychology Today.” Dr. Gray, Research Professor of Psychology at Boston College, has written extensively on homeschooling and unschooling, and he states “Academic researchers have steered clear of any serious study of unschooling, just as they have steered clear of Sudbury model schools and all other innovations in education that deny the value of an imposed curriculum.” He notes, “I'd like to learn more about it and tell the world more about it, and for that reason I'm conducting a survey of unschooling families.” The survey, titled “What Is Unschooling? Invitation to a Survey,” was shared at Pat Farenga’s website (submissions were due in early October). Pat wrote: “I’ve met and Worked with Peter several times, I have reviewed this survey, and I’m comfortable disseminating it.” The questions were fairly simple and basic, for more information visit Pat’s blog at http://patfarenga.com • Families on the Road (FOTR) is for families who are on the road fulltime, on extended road trips, or who are just daydreaming about traveling. The FOTR web site is maintained by Kimberly Goza, and is constantly updated with the contributions of many traveling families who bring with them a wide variety of experiences and perspectives. Kimberly has been traveling fulltime with her family (a.k.a. The Act!vated Storytellers) since 1992, promoting multicultural folktales with an activated flair! Http://familiesontheroad.com • As mentioned above, we were thrilled to see Patrick Farenga, president of Holt Associates Inc., announce free public access To 24 years of John Holt’s magazine, Growing Without Schooling at their website, www.holtgws.com. HEM Archives • Home Education Magazine's online archives include 15 years of back issues of this magazine, with selected articles, interviews, editorials and columns from each issue. From 1997 through 2011, every issue is represented with the full content of each issue listed, and with links to the content which can be read online. To access this one-of-a-kind online resource go to: www.homeedmag.com/HEM/issueindex.ht ml or just click the HEM Archives button from anywhere on the HEM web site. Homeschooling Books • The Home School Reader: 1984-1994, edited by Mark and Helen Hegener This book presents an outstanding selection of important articles from the first ten years of Home Education Magazine: 1984 through 1994. The writers featured here encompass a broad spectrum of homeschooling approaches and ideologies, and the format covers everything from the basics of homeschooling through the philosophical reasons why many families choose this educational option. The Homeschool Reader: Collected Articles from Home Education Magazine 1984-1994; 2006 HEM Books, ISBN 0-945097-30-1, paperback, 6”x9”, indexed, resources, 224 pages. HEM Online price $15.00 (Plus S&H - Regularly $17.50). To order visit the HEM bookstore: www.homeedmag.com/store/books.html • The Home School Reader: 1995-1999, edited by Laura Grace Weldon This second book in The Homeschool Reader series is edited by HEM columnist Laura Weldon, and includes over 60 original articles by more than 40 individuals writing on homeschoolingrelated topics such as family life, fathers' viewpoints, socialization, unschooling, young adults and more. The Homeschool Reader: 1995-1999; Edited by Laura Weldon, HEM Books, ISBN 978-0-945-097-32-7, paperback, 6”x9”, indexed, resources, 260 pages. HEM Online price $15.00 (Plus S&H - Regularly $17.50). To order visit the HEM bookstore: www.homeedmag.com/store/books.html HEM Online • Home Education Magazine offers much more than just this print publication. The HEM web site includes many excellent homeschooling resources, such as the HEM Archives, with many years of articles and columns from past issues of HEM to read free online; blogs on news, resources, editorial opinion and more; a large support area which presents homeschooling laws and support group listings in every state and many countries around the world. You can easily access all of the great HEM content and share it via Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, StumbleUpon, Reddit, Del.icio.us, Digg, and other social networking tools. Check out all these great online resources at http://homeedmag.com • Are you a Facebook fan of HEM? The Facebook page for Home Education Magazine is an interactive forum with frequent comments and discussions of posts from the magazine and web site which are shared through our Facebook page. Join the conversation on HEM’s Facebook page by clicking on the Facebook fan box on the front page of our web site, or go to the page: http://www.facebook/HomeEducationMagazine Magazine Details • If you're interested in contributing to this magazine you'll be pleased to know we welcome new writers. For our Writer's Guidelines, deadlines, rates of payment, and some tips from our editors, check online at the HEM site or email Info@homeedmag.com with the words "Writers Guidelines" as your subject. • If your local homeschool support group or your town or county’s public library does not already have a subscription to this magazine, please encourage them to subscribe - Edited by Laura Weldon 1984-Collected Articles from Home Education Magazine 1995-1999 The Homeschool Reader Series or you can easily send them a gift subscription, which other homeschooling families will greatly appreciate, by going to the link at http://homeedmag.com/ord/order.html Keeping great homeschool publications like Home Education Magazine in your local public library - or dentist’s or doctor’s office waiting rooms - is a wonderful way to share information about homeschooling with the general public, who are often interested in homeschooling, but who might not know where to get good information about this great option in education. Send a gift subscription today and help spread the good news about homeschooling to other families in your community! • Longtime HEM columnists Larry and Susan Kaseman, who write the Taking Charge series for every issue, always address issues of significance and importance to homeschoolers. In every issue of Home Education Magazine their column addresses a topic which homeschoolers will find helpful, and past columns are archived online for easy access and referral, in what is perhaps the most comprehensive resource available for addressing the sometimes sticky questions homeschoolers face. Their experience with all aspects of homeschooling has given them an invaluable perspective on what works, what doesn’t, and why. Column titles very helpfully describe the dozens of topics they’ve written about in past issues: Communicating the Strengths of Homeschooling, Tell Legislators ‘No Thanks’ to Tax Credits, Gaining Confidence in Our Homeschooling, How Rulings in Homeschooling Custody Cases Affect Us All, and many more. Any of these columns can be found by going to the Home Education Magazine web site and typing relevant words or the complete title of the column into the site search box. • Do you have a service or a product homeschooling families would be interested in? Home Education Magazine is an excellent way to reach homeschooling families! For Home Education Magazine's advertising rates and specifications, including advertising at the HEM web site, contact HEM's advertising manager Barb Lundgren, Imagine Advertising, 3013 Hickory Hill, Colleyville, TX 76034; (817) 540-6423; email barb.lundgren@tx.rr.com • Subscription expiring? Check the address label on the cover of this issue for your expiration date and renew your subscription early to ensure uninterrupted delivery of magazines.Don’t need to renew yet? Why not send a gift subscription to a friend, family member, support group, or library and support the magazine that's been supporting homeschooling families for 28 years! • Are you moving in the near future? Make sure your Home Education Magazine subscription moves with you so you don't miss a single information-packed issue! The post office will not forward magazines to your new address, and address changes can take time to take effect, so please remember to send changes of address as early as possible to Home Education Magazine, PO Box 1083, Tonasket, WA 98855-1083; or email a message to Info@homeedmag.com

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