Links for parents

International

The Charlotte Mason Home Education Network
This is an excellent free resource, putting Charlotte Mason home educators in touch. A place where you can have your own space to blog, post photos, videos, music and more, several useful forum categories and lots of group spaces to connect locally, on the basis of curriculum, teaching style, and more. A great place to connect.

UK Support Groups

General Support Groups

The Home Education UK Network
This is an excellent free resource, putting home educators in touch. A place where you can have your own space to blog, post photos, videos, music and more, several useful forum categories and lots of group spaces to connect locally, on the basis of curriculum, teaching style, and more. A great place to connect.

Education Otherwise:
This support group for home educators in the UK was started in the 1970's. They have several publications on home education and provide local home educating networks, legal advice, ID cards and so on. http://www.netlink.co.uk/users/e_o/mindex.htm

THEN-UK
The Home Education Network UK
This is a new alternative to E.O.

HEAS
The Home Education Advisory Service
HEAS is another alternative to EO, and offers information for home educators including advice about educational materials, resources, GCSE examinations, special educational needs, information technology, legal matters and curriculum design. HEAS produces a range of leaflets and the Home Education Handbook. In addition HEAS subscribers receive the quarterly HEAS Bulletin, access to the Advice Line, contacts with other subscribers and the HEAS registration card (for home educating families) which gives free or reduced rates of admission to certain museums and sites of interest.

Christian Support Groups

Home Service provides support for Christian home educators, including skills testing. Membership is £10 per year, which includes a subscription to Home Time magazine, contacts list, leaflets and discount card for entry to various museums. They also provide free progress testing and organise Christian home education conferences. www.home-service.org/

Messianic Support Groups

* Messianic Homeschoolers * Messianic Mamas * Messianic Keepers at Home *
* Messianic Moms of Mashiach *
* Messianic Unit Studies * UK Messianic * Messianic Sonlight *

Support Groups in Europe

General Support Groups

m.a.t.s.: Homeschooling in Sweden
From what I can gather, there are very few people homeschooling in Sweden, and some of the local education authorities are reluctant to allow parents to educate their children at home despite it being their legal right to do so, but it does seem to be a growing movement. http://hem.passagen.se/matshem/index.htm

o.t.h.: Homeschooling in Norway
Homeschooling is growing in Norway for many reasons, including the fact that the school entrance age has been lowered to 6! http://bdd.no/oth

Christian Support Groups

The Maranatha Foundation is an American organisation based in the UK, which provides Support for home educators through TEACH: The European Academy for Christian Homeschooling. It also offers ACE (Accelerated Christian Education) curriculum resources. http://www.christian-education.org/html/HomeEd.html

Support Groups in the US

There are thousands of support groups in the US, and these tend to be arranged both locally and state-by-state, since laws affecting home education vary depending upon which state you happen to live in.

General Support Groups

There is a main national organisation which defends home educators in the event of having to fight "City Hall" over their decision to homeschool, and will let you know the legal requirements for your State: the Homeschool Legal Defence Association: http://www.hslda.org

Christian Support Groups

One of the best sites I have found, which lists mostly Christian US support groups, is at http://www.mache.org

Rest of the World

General Support Groups

Australia
http://homeschool.3dproductions.com.au/

Canada
http://www.life.ca This is a really useful site, with tips on how to approach subjects etc.

New Zealand
http://ourworld.compuserv.com/homepages/astley/homeeduc.htm Some friends of ours have just returned to the UK from living in New Zealand. Apparently homeschooling is not uncommon there since people tend to live in far-flung places away from schools, and so the Government actually supports home educators with a comprehensive programme.

Christian Support Groups

The World-wide Service (WES) of the Parents National Education Union (PNEU), originally formed by Charlotte Mason, provides a comprehensive service of support and curriculum, primarily for missionary families abroad, but also supplies to home educating families at home in the UK and the rest of the world. They can be contacted at: The World-wide Education Service of the PNEU, Strode House, 44-50 Osnaburgh Street, London NW1 3NN.

Web Resources

Despite the contentious title, the "School is dead...learn in freedom" website is a really good site with some really useful links. I would recommend it! http://learninfreedom.org/

The Mining Company has a homeschooling section with useful links:- http://homeschooling.miningco.com/

Make contacts with other home educators here:- http://www.caro.net/~joespa/hspeople.htm

Homeschooling Family Homepages

Mary's Miscellaneous site: This is one of my favourite sites with some good links, lovely graphics.http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/3756/

The Zentek family Homeschooling Homepage
This is another American Christian homeschooling family. This is the site that encouraged me to set up the Little Bears website! http://members.tripod.com/~kzentek/main.html They also produce the "Mommies at Home Cyberjournal"

The Buttles Homepage:- This is the homepage of my e-friends, David and Karen Buttle, an American/English Christian home educating family living in the UK, http://www.oldpaths.mcmail.com/

Plum Creek Schoolhouse - the lovely site of a Christian part-time homeschooling family from Missouri: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Park/6704/homeschooling.html

The Fairheads' Homepage:- A UK Christian home educating family living in Cyprus. Has some particularly useful links on socialisation: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Lake/3262

Magazines

The Old Schoolhouse Magazine

Homeschool Digest

Home Ed Press produces some helpful documents:- http://www.home-ed-magazine.com

The Ecclectic Homeschool Magazine http://eho.org

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