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  • Homeschool Kid Becomes Youngest in Canadian Parliament

    Homeschool Kid Becomes Youngest in Canadian Parliament0

    The last few weeks have found us fixated on U.S. politics and the ascension of Donald Trump to the office of president. But in all this hoopla, we missed another surprising election result that occurred just north of the border. According to last week’s Toronto Star: “Sam Oosterhoff just became one of Ontario’s highest paid

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  • Homeschool Is Unconstitutional? That’s What Brazil’s Supreme Court Ruled.

    Homeschool Is Unconstitutional? That’s What Brazil’s Supreme Court Ruled.0

    The supreme court of Brazil, the Federal Supreme Court (STF), referred to as the “Enlightenment vanguard” by Minister Barroso, recently ruled that the practice of homeschooling is unconstitutional. The trial occurred on September 12, and nine of the ten ministers present for the ruling rejected parents’ right to practice homeschooling. The Brazilian Constitution of 1988 is considered

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  • Homeschool is Booming, New Study Shows

    Homeschool is Booming, New Study Shows0

    A report issued this week by The Pioneer Institute, a Boston-based a public policy think tank, sheds light on the rapid growth and diversity of the U.S. homeschooling population. Co-authored by William Heuer and William Donovan, the comprehensive white paper explains that despite a paucity of support from government officials–and outright opposition by the nation’s

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  • Homeschool Grads: More Unique and Innovative?

    Homeschool Grads: More Unique and Innovative?0

    Like many news outlets at this time of year, The Boston Globe recently profiled several young high school students preparing for the pomp and circumstance of graduation. But The Globe took a different angle than normal and stepped inside the world of a homeschool graduation ceremony: “‘Pomp and Circumstance’ played softly from computer speakers hooked

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  • Homer’s Advice for Fathers and Sons

    Homer’s Advice for Fathers and Sons0

    Author’s Introduction: Imagine if Homer, Virgil, Dante, Chaucer, and the other great poets of ancient Greece, Rome, and the Middle Ages had been given the gift, not only to peer into the twenty-first century, but to correspond with we who live in that most confusing and rudderless of centuries. Had it been in their power

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  • Homer’s ‘Iliad’ is a Morality Tale

    Homer’s ‘Iliad’ is a Morality Tale0

    Sing, Muse, of Achilles’ anger and its devastation … and of the will of Zeus which was done. – Homer The opening lines of Homer’s epic, The Iliad, say it all. In these first few words, the poet betrays his purpose and unpacks the deepest meaning of his work. He begins with a prayer to

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