Magazines

This is a list of magazines whose contact focuses primarily on educational issues, especially topics of interest to homeschoolers.  Some editions have online subscriptions, e-versions and an archive of back issues available online.  Those titles marked with an asterisk (*) - contact information was confirmed via the internet between February and April 2008.

 

The Drinking Gourd: Multicultural Home-Education Magazine *

P.O. Box 2557
Redmond, WA 98073
(206) 836-0336
(206) 868-1371 (fax)
TDrinkingGrd@aol.com

$15/year - Six issues per year. Founded and edited by Donna Nichols-White. Interesting variety of articles and book reviews, on both general homeschooling topics and on topics of interest to particular ethnic communities among homeschoolers.

Education Revolution Magazine *

Alternative Education Resource Organization (AERO)
417 Roslyn Road
Roslyn Heights, NY 11577
(516) 621-2195
http://www.educationrevolution.org/aeromagazine.html

$15/year, Organizations - $25. From the website - "Each quarterly issue includes the latest news and communications from the alternative education world, as well as conference updates, job listings, book reviews, travel reports, and much more. With our readers' support we are helping to make learner-centered education available to all students throughout the world. We welcome your participation and involvement."

Home Education Magazine *

PO Box 1083,
Tonasket, WA 98855-1083
800-236-3278 or 509-486-0453
http://www.homeedmag.com/wlcm_HEM.html
$ 26/ year - Six issues or $48/ 2 years

From the Website - "Home Education Magazine, the longest-running continuously published homeschool magazine, features articles on a broad range of cutting-edge topics for today's homeschooling families. Our columnists and regularly featured writers are the best home education writers available, presenting engaging interviews, hands-on learning opportunities, helpful critiques of learning resources, in-depth political commentary and analysis of news and events affecting homeschooling families"

Home Educator's Family Times *

P.O. Box 6442
Brunswick, MAINE, 04011
(207) 657-2800
famtimes@blazenetme.net

http://www.homeeducator.com/FamilyTimes/current.htm 
$15 / year or $28 / 2 years - 6 issues per year.

Home School Court Report *
Home School Legal Defense Association

P.O. Box 3000,
Purcellville, VA 20134
540.338.5600
Fax 540.338.2733
http://www.hslda.org/courtreport/

Subscription is part of the HSLDA’s annual membership fee of $115. – 6 issues per year. Many of the articles are available for free online. Contains regular columns, special features and articles on issues of interest to the homeschooling community.

Home School Researcher *

National Home Education Research Institute
P.O. Box 13939
Salem, Oregon 97309
(503) 364-1490
(503) 364-2827 (fax)
http://www.nheri.org/

$59 - Online access to new issues of the academic journal Home School Researcher (HSR) (retail: $25/year hard/paper copy) · All back issues of the journal Home School Researcher (founded 1985; about 65 issues as of June 2006; retail $5/issue hard/paper copy for a total of about $325) · Occasional research news articles · New-research announcements online

From the website – "In fulfilling its mission, NHERI engages in professional research for various clients throughout the nation and internationally. In addition, Dr. Ray and his associates serve as consultants to the growing number of those presently engaged in research on home education topics."

Homeschool Digest *

Wisdom's Gate
P.O. Box 374
Covert, MI 49043
269-764-1910
http://www.homeschooldigest.com/

$18/year - Four issues per year. "Wisdom's Gate is owned by the Lord Jesus Christ and operated under the guidance of the Holy Spirit." From the website " In the HOME SCHOOL DIGEST, you'll find practical tips, simple homeschooling suggestions and bold biblical challenges that make up an open forum for wrestling through the complex issues that affect homeschooling families."

Homeschooling Today *

PO Box 244
Abingdon, VA  24212
276-628-7730
service@homeschooltoday.com
http://www.homeschooltoday.com/

$21.00 / year or $41.98 / 2 years - Six issues per year (free trial issue available)

From the website – "The work of Homeschooling Today magazine is focused and specific. Our commitment to bring the homeschool community useful information and resources is supported by a Biblical conviction that God uses families to change the world."

Life Learning Magazine *

c/o Life Media,
PO Box 112,
Niagara Falls, NY 14304-0112
(416) 260-0303 or 800-215-9574
http://www.lifelearningmagazine.com/

$27 / year or $51 / 2 years – 6 issues per year

From the website – "Our regular columnists provide honest and thought-provoking ideas that will you think outside-the-box about ways to encourage and support active, self-directed learning. Most of our contributors are life learning parents and teens, or adults who learned without schooling as children. In addition, some of the world’s foremost educational thinkers, researchers and writers share their journeys of exploration into how people learn informally."

The Link: A Homeschool Newspaper *

741 Lakefield Road, Ste. J
Westlake Village, CA 91361
805-497-3311
Fax: 1-805-497-3368
http://www.homeschoolnewslink.com/

Free / Six issues per year.

The Link's purpose is "to provide information and resources FREE to those homeschooling and/or interested in homeschooling, and to do so without promoting an agenda relative to religion, spiritual belief/non-belief or homeschooling style."

Moore Report *

P.O. Box 1, Camas, WA 98607
206-835-2736
http://www.moorefoundation.com/article.php?id=6&action=print

$15 / year or $25 / 2 years - 6 issues per year (online sample issue)

Newspaper with a Christian perspective; special interest in informal learning for younger children and national and international homeschooling news.

Nathhan – National Challenged Homeschoolers Associated Network *

PO Box 310
Moyie Springs, ID 83845
(208) 267-6246
http://www.nathhan.com/index.htm

$25 member fee includes - print copy of NATHHAN NEWS – 2 issues/year.
Access to the Featured Articles for the Season section of the NATHHAN web page.

$15.00 discount off of HSLDA's yearly fee. / $9.00 discount on the regular subscription price of the Home School Digest. / FREE classified ads. / Posting privileges in the NATHHAN Letters From Families section & Discussion Board / Access to the 751 titles NATHHAN Lending Library Privileges operated through the mail.

From the website "To encourage homeschooling families with special needs children, in ways that glorify the Lord Jesus Christ and equip parents to confidently  raise their children with special needs or disabilities. "

Practical Homeschooling *

Home Life, Inc.
P.O. Box 1190
Fenton, MO 63026-1190
(800) 346-6322 (10-4 CST M-F)
or (636) 529-0137
svc@home-school.com
http://www.home-school.com/

$ 19.95 / year or $35.00 / 1 years - Six issues per year. Published by Mary Pride with regular columnists, news and features of interest to the homeschooling community.

The Teaching Home *

Box 20219
Portland OR 97294
http://www.teachinghome.com/SignUp/

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