[The River Houses]

The River Houses

A National Network of Local Homeschool Societies

🏡 WELCOME! (Pinned Post)

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First time visitor? We post a wide range of easy-to-use educational ideas and “little lessons” that will enrich your homeschooling schedule all through the year. Please subscribe to our free homeschool newsletter! (It’s just one message a week with no spam.)

There’s a wealth of wonderful material here on our website — everything from homeschool astronomy to books and libraries to language and literature to geography, natural history, homeschool calendars, and more. The materials we’re developing are going to become the foundation for a new type of homeschool network made up of friendly local groups called “Houses” (just like in Harry Potter). Make yourself at home! 😊

🇺🇸 🏇 WONDERFUL WORDS: “The fate of a nation was riding that night”

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“A shape in the moonlight, a bulk in the dark, / And beneath, from the pebbles, in passing, a spark / Struck out by a steed flying fearless and fleet: / That was all! And yet, through the gloom and the light, / The fate of a nation was riding that night.” (An extra equestrian homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Longfellow, for the beginning of the American Revolution in 1775.)

🗓 🦁 HAPPY CROSS-QUARTER DAY of Leo Term

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We divide the homeschool year into four three-month terms, and the midpoint of each term (following old calendrical tradition) is called the “cross-quarter day.” Today, April 15th, is the cross-quarter day of Leo Term, our spring term in the River Houses. How are things going in your homeschool?

🔎 HOMESCHOOL RESEARCH & NEWS – April 2025

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Our April roundup of some recent academic research and news about home education in the United States and around the world, with links to sources. We have six items this month, on government regulation of homeschooling; homeschooling in the Philippines; homeschooling in Canada; alleged maltreatment of homeschool students; U.S. homeschooling trends; and public perceptions of homeschoolers.