Home schooling on rise in county (Times Leader)
Bucking a statewide trend, the number of students being home schooled in Luzerne County increased from the 2005-06 to the 2006-07 school year, a new state report shows.
Ruling won't stop local home-school families (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
Six Christian families across Pennsylvania intend to continue their federal court battle in hopes of receiving an exception from state law mandating that they supply their local school districts with documentation about kids' home-schooling.
Tad Mosel, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author of 'All the Way Home', Dies at 86 (Playbill via Yahoo! News)
Tad Mosel, who adapted James Agee's novel "A Death in the Family" into the Pultizer Prize-winning stage play All the Way Home, died Aug. 24 in Concord, NH. He was 86. For the last 18 years of his life, he resided at the Havenwood-Heritage Heights Retirement community in Concord.
Education Matters: Back to school, for better or worse, for home or for public (The Athens News)
Education Matters: Back to school, for better or worse, for home or for public
More blacks choosing to home-school their children (Houston Chronicle)
Home schooling has steadily gained momentum in the black community in the past eight years and is expected to continue to grow, say home school experts.
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