More Colleges Welcoming Home-Schooled Students

More and more two and four-year colleges are readily accepting students from homeschooling backgrounds. These students have proven repeatedly that they are capable of academic excellence and intellectual vitality, and are welcome assets to their schools.

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Home-Schoolers Compete on Global Level

The Imaginary Friends and STARRT teams of home-schooled students from Lighthouse Instruction for Enrichment who live in DeSoto, Marshall or Tate Counties teamed up against students from across the U.S. and more than 30 countries, including teams from Turkey, Brazil, Poland, China, Mexico, Canada and Guatemala. These students earned the right to take part in the competition of a lifetime at the Destination ImagiNation (DI) Global Finals.

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At Vet School, The Doctor Is In - And So Is The Teen

Mary Brown of Waxhaw isn't old enough for a driver's license, but she's spending her summer doing graduate-level research at N.C. State University's veterinary school.

While other teens are texting, swimming and socializing, she's using a microscope to gauge whether nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (think Advil) slow healing in horse intestinal cells that have been deprived of oxygen.

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10 Famous Homeschooled People

Agatha Christie. Agatha was a painfully shy girl, so her mom homeschooled her even though her two older siblings attended private school.
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Homeschooler Packs Education into 18 Years

At 18, an age when most students are graduating high school, Leitch received a Bachelor of Science degree at UWF's undergraduate commencement exercises. Leitch listed home schooling and dual enrollment as the keys to her academic success.
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The Today Show Wants You!

Do you homeschool your kids? Were you homeschooled as a child? Tell us why you or your family chose that option and how it has worked out. Share your stories and experiences and we may use them in a future story for TODAYshow.com.

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10-Year-Old Does Her Part to Help Prevent Breast Cancer

After her Aunt Marlene was diagnosed with breast cancer in the spring of 2009, Olivia Bates knew she wanted to do something to help.

“We’re really close in our family, and I just wanted to do something to help so that we could try to prevent breast cancer from spreading,” she said.

Only 10 years old, Bates thought for months about how she could support her aunt. Read more ...