Mimi Rothschild - Pushing Home Schooling & Education Forward
Mimi Rothschild is a pioneering child’s rights advocate, has authored a total of seven books on children’s education and home schooling including Cyberspace for Kids, and is the founder of several, distinguished online home schooling academies, all created to assist families with their every educational need. Mimi Rothschild is the co-founder of The MorningStar Home School Academy, a school dedicated to providing families with teacher-led home school curricula. A pioneer of children’s rights advocacy and home schooling, Rothschild is leading the way towards new horizons in education.
Mimi Rothschild’s passion for children’s rights began at age 10. After watching the bloated bellies of Biafran children on the nightly television news, Rothschild took a coffee can and began her very own door to door campaign to collect change for hungry kids. Within several years, she led one of the nation’s first Walks for Hunger which raised money for hungry children.
Mimi Rothschild’s fight for children’s rights took a domestic turn in 1983 when she gave birth to her first of eight children. Not pleased with the way public schools seemed to inhibit children’s natural learning development, she decided to dive headfirst into the nascent world of home schooling. She authored an incendiary critique of the public school system entitled Children at Risk, after the government-sponsored report called Nation at Risk. Both reports suggested, “If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might have well as viewed it as an act of war.”
She began home schooling several of her soon-to-be eight children. In 1987, Rothschild co-founded The Massachusetts Home Learning Association, a group dedicated to serving the needs of regional home schoolers. Throughout Mimi Rothschild’s decades of home schooling, she had never been satisfied with the quality of curriculum materials available and had avidly worked with other home schoolers to establish co-ops, internships and real-life learning experiences.
In 1997, Mimi Rothschild and her daughter co-authored Cyberspace for Kids a series of books showing children how to take advantage of the vast informational resources on the Internet. Rothschild subsequently wrote Teen Resources on the Web: A Guide for Librarians, Parents and Teachers and co-wrote Crash Bang Boom: Exploring Literary Devices through Children’s Literature.
During this time Mimi Rothschild was active in child advocacy by orchestrating such nonprofit groups like The National Organization for Children. These groups were dedicated to providing computers to hospitals which housed critically ill children and several other charity efforts. She set about developing online home school services that were able to bring the classroom to the child when the child couldn’t come to the classroom. In the late nineties, Rothschild and her husband began developing the software and home school curriculum needed to accomplish such a feat.
Thus, the Learning By Grace, Inc. home school academies were born. Each academy brings a quality, Biblically-based education to the child. They allow parents with no education experience to provide their children with a great learning environment. With a firm focus on the child’s individual development, courses are structured to address the unique needs of every child. Each home school course provides the child with the opportunity to improve their socialization skills, better their ethics, and to openly learn about God’s magnificent Creation in a real world setting.
Mimi Rothschild combined her home school expertise with a vision to provide all home schoolers with cutting-edge online learning solutions when she launched The MorningStar Home School Academy in 2004. She recognized that many Christian families would love to send their children to a private Christian school but are unable to do so due to financial limitations. The MorningStar Home School Academy allows Christian students to receive home school curricula with help from a staff of professional teachers. Given her unquenchable passion for helping children to reach their dreams, clear that Mimi Rothschild won’t rest until every child has the chance at academic excellence.
Contact:
Mimi Rothschild
The MorningStar Academy Home School Program
10 Shurs Lane, Suite 202
Philadelphia, PA 19127
215.487.3700
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