by Sarah Hicks | Sep 5, 2020 | Culture, NCHE Membership, Getting Started, Community, NCHE Blog
In 1984, North Carolinians for Home Education was organized by homeschool parents to support and encourage home educators and to protect the right to freely home educate in North Carolina. Our name was selected so as to include all who are for home education, not just...
by Sarah Hicks | Aug 31, 2020 | Culture, NCHE Membership, Getting Started, Community, NCHE Blog
Whether it’s in person or online, it’s always fun when North Carolinians for Home Education board members and leaders have an opportunity to get together! We love serving you, and we enjoy one another’s company. Although we serve in different roles at NCHE and in...
by WhitneyCrowell | Aug 17, 2020 | NCHE Blog, Peace, Community, Encouragement
By Guest Contributor Whitney Cranford Crowell My mom’s friend Jane is the kind of person who calls it like she sees it. Years ago, after a harrowing day of wrangling her three small children, she eyed my mother with a frazzled look. “The problem with parenting,” she...
by Sarah Hicks | Aug 10, 2020 | Peace, Community, Encouragement, NCHE Blog
It has been thrilling for our board to help families who will be homeschooling for the first time this year. And through offering things like diplomas and college scholarships, this year it has also been our privilege to help many families finish their homeschool...
by Sarah Hicks | Jul 28, 2020 | Getting Started, Peace, Community, Encouragement, NCHE Blog
by Sarah Hicks, July 2020 Scores of books have been written on educational philosophy. A lot of those resources make education harder than it has to be—especially since most people already have an educational philosophy, even if they’ve never realized it or named it....
by Sarah Hicks | Jul 6, 2020 | NCHE Blog, Creative Ideas, Getting Started, Community
Co-op is an abbreviation that stands for co-operative learning. In the context of homeshcool, co-ops are as unique and varied as the homeschoolers that comprise them. In general, co-ops are at least 2 families who agree to get together regularly with the intention of...