Expanding the horizon for home-school students

Advocates cite wider range of shared outside activities as helping fuel growth of practice once relegated to fringe
By Lisa Kocian
Boston Globe Staff / December 6, 2007
Eight-year-old Ben Shapiro's days are a blur of gymnastics, piano playing, and art history lessons. He can also be found doing fractions, reading a biography of Marco Polo, and, soon, delving into physics. But he's not at school. And he's not alone.

He is part of a fast-evolving home-school movement that is traveling away from the stereotype of child and parent at the kitchen table. Shapiro does spend most of his day with his mother, but not alone. Instead, she shuttles him from one group activity to another.

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Facing the Transition to College

Saturday, December 1, 2007

Number of homeschooled children rising in the U.S.

By Brian Morelli
Iowa City Press-Citizen

Small school or big school. Commute versus campus living. In state or out of state.

David Skiff is facing the same sorts of choices as any high school senior looking at colleges, but the 18-year-old Iowa City homeschooler has different circumstances than many others.

"It was a little bit intimidating at first," Skiff said of considering the transition to college. "But I feel pretty confident that I will be able to function."

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