The How and Why of Home Schooling [Paperback]

Ray E. Ballmann (Author), Samuel L. Blumenfeld (Preface), Dick Armey (Foreword), Mike Farris (Foreword)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 2, 1995

This new, expanded edition of The How and Why of Home Schooling not only makes a persuasive case for home schooling but gives practical guidelines for successfully teaching your children at home. It is also a comprehensive resource--providing information on available curricula, support groups, and legal defense organizations, and highlighting seminars and radio programs for home educators.

If God has called you to home schooling, or if you're just starting to investigate alternatives to public education, The How and Why of Home Schooling is a must. It will give you the knowledge and confidence you need to make good choices regarding your children's education.

"The How and Why of Home Schooling is an invaluable treatise on the most important education movement of the past 150 years." --Congressman Dick Armey, Majority Leader, U.S. House of Representatives

"Parents called or driven to home schooling will find in this excellent guide the answers they seek in providing the best that is available for this expanding alternative education plan." --D. James Kennedy, Senior Minister, Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church

"Dr. Ballmann continues to lead in the home education movement by making a careful and convincing case for home schooling based on scriptural principles, logic, and sound reference to research findings." --Brian D. Ray, Ph.D., President, National Home Education Research Institute

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Crossway Books; Revised edition (June 2, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0891078592
• ISBN-13: 978-0891078593
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #976,046 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Public Shools receive failing grades, June 22, 2001

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cara (Ohio) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The How and Why of Home Schooling (Paperback)

Anyone with children should read this book before they make a decision on where to educate their children. This book reviews politics, curriculum, and morality as it applies to public schools in the United States. This has helped me make the switch from preference to conviction. The schools of today are very different from the schools 10 to 20 years ago. They are dangerous, anti-morality focused, and saturated with secular humanism. This book helps clarify those issues and shed light on what happens while the parents aren't looking.

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book! Recommend it for any considering homeschooling., June 1, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: The How and Why of Home Schooling (Paperback)

There was a lot of good information, and examples of how children have benefitted from being taught at home. This book can help you make an informed decision about whether homeschooling is right for your family, and shows both sides of the picture: the benefits and the work involved. I found this book very eye-opening!

6 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Pretty cover, dull book, June 15, 2002

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Audrey Minnow "audreyminnow" (Ontario, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The How and Why of Home Schooling (Paperback)

For a book promising to reveal the why and how of homeschooling, this one does remarkably little of either. The first half of the book is completely taken up with lengthy descriptions of the problems in society and the school system; only after 100 pages do we get into anything resembling practical advice.

What advice is given is often questionable, such as suggesting that the best way for new homeschoolers to begin is with a "self-paced" curriculum like ACE--completely ignoring homeschooling options that don't involve buying a capital-C Curriculum. Sometimes it is just ludicrous (a schedule for a first grader that assumes Dad is going to be teaching science and history five evenings a week).

What I found most disappointing in this book was that the writer and his family were almost completely absent from the story. Adding a personal angle, allowing us to hear their own homeschooling story, would certainly have strengthened the writing.

This may be a useful book for someone who needs to be convinced of the benefits of homeschooling (say a father in law), but that's about it.