Home Rules - Newsletter of the OFTP

Members of the OFTP receive our bi-monthly newsletter, HOME RULES. It's full of articles by members, reprints from other publications, homeschooling news tidbits, recommended books, links to online resources, and more. Follow the links on this page to read some of the articles published in past years.

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2004

A New Study of Homeschool Adults (February)

2003

Education's Rotten Apples (June)
OFTP Funding of Regional Conferences and Policy (April)

2002

Buying Club + Homeschooling = Many Educational Experiences (December)
Informal Learning (October)
A Reflection on my Internship Experience with OFTP (August)
Home Education Memoirs - Part 2 (June)
Home Education Memoirs - A Personal Biography of Our Journey (Part 1) (April)
Dehumanizing Effects of Standardized Testing (February)
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2001

How to Measure Home School Education (December)
How Do Homeschooling Parents Know Their Children Are Learning? (October)
Good News!! School Health Support Services Update (August)
Schooling--The Many-Sided Sphere (June)
School Health Support Services--Phase 2 (April)
Math In A Spider Web? (February)
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2000

Education Extended School Health Services (December)
TV or Not TV! (October)
Extended School Health Services to Homeschoolers (August)
Homeschooling and the Redefinition of Citizenship (June)
Educating the School Board (April)
EDUCATION -- What Are We Preparing For? (February)
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1999

How Do I Maintain My Child�s Interest? (December)
Changes In Parents� Motivations for Homeschooling (October)
Learning How To Tell Time.....The Unschooling Way (August)
A Day In The Life of an Unschooling Family (June)
A Perception of OFTP - Members Discuss the Organization (April)
The Top 10 (February)
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1998

Homeschooling: Creating Alternatives to Education (December)
Schooling and Unschooling at Home(October)
How People Learn (August)
So -- What About Socialization? (June)
Schools/Parents Struggle to Fight 'Classism' (April)
This Issue's Answers and Next Issue's Question (February)
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1997

President Albert Lubberts' Address to the Legislative Committee on Bill 160 (December)
Article from Wall Street Journal (September)
Home-Grown Ontario Kids Grow Up (March)
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1996

Home-based Education in Ontario and the Law (September)
A Deschooling Reader (September)
Getting and Giving Support (March)

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