The How & Why of Homeschooling

by Ray E. Ballmann, Dick Armey (Foreword by)

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

224 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 1987

Reviews

[Rachel Pavalok · Rating 3 out of 5]

I feel like I have been almost too generous in giving this book 3 stars...but he has some good advice in the beginning and throughout but it gets hidden because of some of the other radical things he says such as the reason you homeschool is to make sure ur child has "Christian" character and to basically indoctrinate him into the religious life style, not for getting ahead or you enjoy ur children or the school district you are in is failing sol's, your child has been bullied. I am a Christian but was really sick of hearing Christian this and Christian that....sorry, I would not recommend this book to anyone except radical religious friends :)

[Amy Lee Ellis]

I didn't assign stars because I just couldn't finish this book. I went into this one expecting more practical advice on how one gets started in homeschooling. There wasn't nearly enough of that and what was there may have been helpful years ago, but was quite dated for today. In addition, while I do agree with some of the reasons for homeschooling suggested by the author, the tone of the writing just didn't click well with me and even though I tried several times, I couldn't entirely get into the book. I found a few more general homeschooling books at a church rummage sale, so I'll keep trying.

[Delona · Rating 4 out of 5]

I actually read this book ages ago but was thinking about it today. It was the first homeschooling book that I read and it was instrumental in my decision to homeschool my children. I may rate it differently if I were to reread it today.

[Audrey Gross · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book was VERY biased.. The perspective of "homeschool your children lest they fall prey to all the evils lurking around every corner in the public schools." Strange statistics quoted.. a bit religious extremist.. books like this are why people think homeschoolers are weirdos :)

[Thames Robinson · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very good, encouraging, basic over-view for anyone considering teaching her children at home.

[Michael J · Rating 2 out of 5]

At times it seemed the author was padding the book length and had difficulty keeping his idiosyncrasies out of the book with excursions into phonics vs whole reading, courtship models, theonomy, and a complete diagram for how laws are made at the federal level. Positively, the book was a relatively easy read for this "whole language" reader. Phonics readers may have more difficulty...