Resources for African American Home Schoolers Rise to Meet the Growing Demand

African Americans are the fastest growingFUNgasa will create a new series of guidebooks
demographic group of home schoolers in theaimed specifically at African American home
United States. Because this is a new developmentschooling parents.
in home schooling, there is a great deal of interestBy finding out the issues of black home schoolers
in the world of epidemiological research concerningand their parents, these guidebooks will attempt
the details of the African American hometo help families better handle the pitfalls with the
schooling experience. The focus, specifically, is oninformation they need to make their experience
African American experience when newly homerun smoother. What will make these guidebooks
schooling, as well as the experience of Africandifferent from the other home schooling guides
American parents of home school graduates.currently on the shelves is their Afro-centric
Resources for African American home schoolersfocus.
are becoming more and more available. A groupAfrican American culture is often one of the
focused solely on African American families whofundamental reasons that African American
home school is called African Americanfamilies choose to home school. By incorporating
Unschooling. It is a network with membersblack culture into home school curricula, African
throughout the country, all of whom are blackAmerican families have the opportunity to impart
families who home school.a rich history and proud tradition that gets lost in
A magazine is also available for those who wouldthe predominantly white-favored public and private
like to know more about the experience ofschool systems.
African American home schoolers and perhapsThe opportunity to network with other black
pick up a few tips. The magazine is calledhome schooling families and learn from articles
FUNgasa: Free Oneself! The Magazine forwritten from an African American perspective,
African-American Home Educators.with the black American experience in mind, is a
Another resource in the making combines themajor victory in the world of home schooling.
efforts of African American Unschooling andWhat heretofore has been a predominantly white
FUNgasa. African American Unschooling steadilymovement is now opening up to embrace the
works to gather data from various Africancultural experience of all races and ethnicities,
American home schooling families in the form ofmaking the home schooling a truly inclusive one.
surveys. With the data they collect, the editors of