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MassHOPE NEWS

Used Curriculum Sale:

MassHOPE’s annual Used Curriculum Sale is scheduled for Saturday, June 27th at the LaSalle Hall in Southbridge, Massachusetts.  New this year, all buyers who spend at least ten dollars will be entered into a drawing for MassHOPE bucks to be spent at our annual homeschool convention to be held April 23 & 24, 2010.  Click here for details about the sale.

Homeschool Convention:

Our 20th annual homeschool convention was held on April 24 & 25, 2009 at the DCU Center in Worcester, Massachusetts with keynote speakers Phil Downer and Dr. Jay Wile, along with a teen track featuring Bill Jack of Worldview Academy, a children’s program, and much more.  Click here for Convention details.  And, click here to order Convention Recordings.

High School Graduation:

Do you have a child who graduates high school in 2009?  Click here to check out our upcoming 2009 graduation celebrations and pictures from the 2008 events.

Homeschool Research Study:

MassHOPE recently participated in a major homeschooling research effort in conjunction with the Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) and the National Home Education Research Institute (NHERI).  Past research has consistently demonstrated the benefits of homeschooling.  Such research must be kept up-to-date to be useful when a need arises such as the recent California case threatening all homeschoolers in that state.  We would like to thank the Massachusetts homeschoolers who helped us with this study by completing an online survey and submitting standardized test results.  If a Massachusetts resident is a winner of one of the prize drawings, the student's ID # will be posted here.  Stay tuned, if you participated!  We will post this info as soon as we have it.

CRITICAL ISSUES

Parental Rights:

This is an issue of great importance to homeschoolers everywhere.  Parental rights are increasingly threatened as more members of our judiciary begin to take cues from international law and custom.  These are decidedly unfriendly to homeschooling.  For more information and to join the battle to preserve parental rights, please visit www.parentalrights.org.

Charter Schools:

MassHOPE opposes any federal or state funding initiatives to support charter schools or other types of “public school at home” programs.  Such programs undermine total educational freedom of parents.