Homeschooling Receives Long Overdue Credit From Mainstream Media
By Mimi Rothschild
Michael Alison Chandler of The Washington Post wrote a compelling and positive article on homeschooling yesterday. Often times the mainstream media has been critical of homeschooling. Media outlets have overlooked homeschooling’s success and instead focused on a number of unimportant related issues during the debate over homeschooling. Chandler gives credit where credit is due and praises the quality education homeschooling delivers to students.
Chandler notes that homeschooling “is gaining ground in a crucial arena: college admissions.” Most colleges and universities have a formal policy in place for evaluating homeschooling students. This policy will prove to be monumental as the number of homeschooling students have increased to almost two million students in America.
I’m so happy that homeschoolers are finally being lauded for their accomplishments and their first-class educations. Chandler describes my excitement when thinking about how far homeschooling has come over the last 25 years considering “it was illegal in many states for parents without teaching licenses to educate their children at home.”
Read the rest of Michael Alison Chandler’s article on homeschooling here.
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