A dry-erase board hangs over the kitchen table, still marked from a recent lesson. "Clock, flock, lock, rock, sock." "Black, flack, hack, lack ..."

A growing number of American students are bene fiting from school choice policies. Twenty years ago, few states and communities offered parents the opportunity to choose their children's school.

When Lois Curling first considered homeschooling her children, she hesitated for two reasons. She was nervous about navigating state laws governing at-home education. And, she said, “We believed… that we might feel isolated.”

UNION RIDGE -- The Porter family spent Tuesday picking up the pieces after a fire destroyed their two-story farmhouse in the Union Ridge community in southeast Caswell County Monday afternoon.

A judge has given a thumbs down to a family of American missionaries who had sought permission to remain in Germany, where they have been serving a church work in Nurnberg.

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According to the U.S. Department of Education's most recent survey, multiple reasons exist why families choose to educate their children at home rather than in a public, parochial, or private school system.

Before Amy Huffman pulled her daughter out of public school in Hagerstown 11 years ago, she was the primary wage-earner in her family, working as a mortgage account executive.

The president of the world's premier homeschool advocacy organization is renewing a call for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to protect the rights of parents.

It's not what you think.

A German family has completed its flight to Great Britain after the mayor of their hometown filed a court action to give custody of the children to the state because the parents have been homeschooling, according to an advocacy group.

A trial date for a homeschooling mom from Utah who fled the state when a judge threatened to take away custody of her children has been vacated, officials have confirmed.

MIRAMAR, FL (AP) -- Kelli McCormack decided to homeschool her two daughters because she didn't want them being taught "medieval superstitions" and "religious doctrine" in their science classes, especially when it came to evolution.

'The situation is horrible. We must leave our country' Homeschoolers need to be making plans to flee Germany en masse after a government document implied the advent of a coming crackdown that would target them, an advocate says.

MEDIA ADVISORY, Jan. 7 / Christian Newswire / -- With a tiny budget and cast and crew of homeschool students, Advent Film Group (AFG) begins "pickup" filming of its first movie, "Come What May" for a week on location at Purcellville, Virginia in late January 2008. During a special AFG Film Day on January 30th, a contingent of homeschool families from across the country will join the set, some ...

A team of home-schooled students from the Southeast Valley that won the Honeywell Fiesta Bowl Aerospace Challenge Friday were honored at halftime of Wednesday night's football game in Glendale.

Candidates for the GOP nomination for president universally describe themselves as friendly to family issues, but a California organization has issued a report card indicating they aren't listening to the same drummer, and former Gov. Mike Huckabee and U.S. Rep. Ron Paul are leading the pack.