The IAHE Blog
Is School Choice a Trojan Horse for Homeschooling?
The Alliance, a nonprofit association that supports homeschool organizations, produced the film Exposing a Trojan Horse in 2008.[1] It dealt, on a theoretical level with various issues related to homeschooling families taking government money – tax dollars – for...
Record-keeping: Be a Wise Steward
Homeschool parents work tirelessly to provide the best education for their children. They invest thousands of hours teaching and providing opportunities for years. As parents, we focus on high school graduation as the finish line for both ourselves and our students....
Maintaining Homeschool Freedom: Global Threats 2019
Indiana is one of the best states in the country for homeschooling. But, often freedom results in complacency. Every year our team watches not only the bills in Indiana that have potential to impact Hoosier families, but we also monitor the challenges that other...
NEW IAHE Regions! Just in time for Back-to-School help!
Have you ever wondered why the IAHE regions were set up the way they were? Well so have we! We've asked former board members. We've asked the founding members. We've stopped people in the convention hall. Do you know what we found out? Nobody knows. So in an effort to...
Should I sign the school’s withdrawal form?
The IAHE frequently receives questions from parents asking about the process of withdrawing their student from the public school system. Some of our top answers to many of these questions can be found here: Exploring Home Education Withdraw v. Transfer: Does it...
What About Kindergarten?
Indiana compulsory school age does not begin until the school year that a student turns seven years of age. While Kindergarten is not mandatory in our state either, the majority of Indiana families consider this the beginning of formal education for their child. The...
IAHE Visits the IMPD
Last year, IAHE received several complaints that the IMPD was turning away homeschool graduates. So, we started investigating and researching to see how we could help.
Research on Homeschooling Tells Us Plenty Despite the Claim It Does Not
The Context As recent as a few years ago, negative critics of homeschooling and of homeschool advocacy were claiming that research on homeschooling tells us almost nothing. More recently, the criticism of positive claims about homeschooling's effects has been softened...
When Abuse Allegations Hit Home
The homeschool community is deep in conversation this week over the tragic condition of the 13 Turpin children found in their home in California. While it's too soon to know the details of all that happened in this case, one thing is clear. There is no defense for the...