"Home Schooling from the Heart Banners." This is an attractive wall hanging banner that is handcrafted with love by home schooling families Ken & Llora Knight (Knight Publishing) and Bruce & Lynn Winkler (Freedom Stables) to benefit the NDHSA. $5 plus tax and shipping.

The Underground History of American Education will take you on a journey into the background, philosophy, psychology, politics, and purposes of compulsion schooling. The most important book about schools you will ever read. It will open your eyes. $34.95 plus tax and shipping.

"LET MY CHILDREN GO!" Why Parents Must Remove Their Children from Public Schools NOW

On March 28, 2002, Christian family leader, Dr. James Dobson, on his Focus on the Family radio broadcast, stated, "In the State of California, if I had a child there, I wouldn't put the youngster in a public school.... I think it is time to get our kids out...." We are grateful to Dr. Dobson for this bold stand and hope that it encourages others to take a similar position. American schools are the best funded in the world, yet out of 41 nations, American students consistently rank near, or at the bottom in mathematics, physics and science. Despite their failings more than 80% of evangelical Christians place their children in government (public) schools, exposing them to physical and moral dangers on a daily basis. The biblical instruction of our children may be the thrust that God could use to restore American society and revive the nation. A fresh obedience by the Church to its God-ordained role in education may be the catalyst for a new Great Awakening.

"To commit our children to the care of irreligious people is to commit lambs to the superintendency of wolves." --Timothy Dwight, President of Yale 1795-1817

"This book presents an idea whose time has come. Modern public education in America has too often degenerated into indoctrination in secular humanism. This book presents the solution to the problem." — D. James Kennedy, Senior Minister, Coral Ridge Ministries

$22, which includes shipping from the NDHSA.

"Bruce Shortt's book, The Harsh Truth about Public Schools, combines a sound Biblical basis, rigorous research, straightforward, easily read language, and eminently sound reasoning. Whether one is a parent or parent-to-be, pastor, church staff member, or educator, this book has much to offer. It is based, first of all, upon a clear understanding of God's educational mandate to parents. Its second foundation is a thoroughly documented description of the inescapably anti-Christian thrust of any governmental school system and the inevitable results: moral relativism (no fixed standards), academic dumbing down, far-left programs, near absence of discipline, and the persistent but pitiable rationalizations offered by government education professionals." ~From the Forward

Paperback, 464 pages with indices.

This book makes the case that Secular Humanism is a full-fledged worldview. It looks at historical positions of Secular Humanist leaders and shows how, in the past, they promoted their views as a religion in order to gain the perks of other religions, such as tax-exemption. Now that other religions have been forced out of the educational arena, Secular Humanism has been granted privileged access to government-sanctioned schools, while claiming to be morally neutral, scientifically derived, and educationally fruitful. $9.95 plus tax and shipping. 15.3 oz

The Philosophy of the Christian Curriculum by Rousas Rushdoony, Ross House Books, 1985. Dr. Rushdoony testified as an expert witness for home education in 1985 at the Stutsman County Courthouse in support of the Larsen and Patzer home school families who were charged with violating the ND compulsory attendance law. “Rushdoony likened the conventional educational system to ‘Prussian socialism,’ and that the state-run schools are more interested in controlling children than educating them. Rushdoony said that parents should retain control of their children, rather than relinquish it to the state and its ‘secular humanist’ values…’I don’t know of any bad parents who would attempt this (home schooling), ’he testified. ‘They are superior parents with an intense concern for their children.’” (ref. Jim Anderson, “Defendants Optimistic After Trial,” Sun Times, 30 January 1985.)

Rev. R. J. Rushdoony (1916-2001) was a leading theologian, church/state expert, and author of numerous works on the application of Biblical Law to society. His book titled, “The Philosophy of the Christian Curriculum” explains how a curriculum is not neutral and that even math, science, grammar, music, and government needs specific Biblical perspectives for truly Christian education to occur. He covers many other interesting topics such as education and power, how humanism denies sexual differences in the classroom, and the religious goals of humanism. It could be considered a handbook for the home educator to keep Christ in the homeschool curriculum. $15 plus tax and shipping.

A Christian Philosophy of Education by Gordon Clark, Trinity Foundation, 1946. As home educators work through the high school years and consider college issues, families benefit by a greater understanding of education al issues. Clark’s book presents truths which motivate Christian thinking in all grades, but especially important for parents and young adults to read to become convinced themselves of the Biblical mandate for thoroughly Christian education at every level. I was shocked when I first read this book, wondering why I had been a Christian for 15 years and never heard these truths explained. This was a life changing book for our family. Order for $12.95 plus tax and shipping (Media Mail $2.07) from the office.

Clark’s book was first published in 1946, at a time when most Christian parents in America still trusted public schools and did not even consider educating their children at home or in Christian schools. It demonstrates why public schools were not to be trusted, even in 1946. Completely revised, A Christian Philosophy of Education remains the best book-length explanation of Christian education, written by a Christian teacher who taught for 60 years. Its content includes: The Need for a World-View; The Christian World-View; The Alternative to Christian Theism; Neutrality; Ethics; The Christian Philosophy of Education; Academic Matters; From Kindergarten to University; The Relationship of Public Education to Christianity; and more.

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What a Daughter Needs from Her Dad

by Michael Farris

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