| African Americans are the fastest growing | | | | collect, the editors of FUNgasa will create a |
| demographic group of home schoolers in the | | | | new series of guidebooks aimed specifically |
| United States. Because this is a new | | | | at African American home schooling parents. |
| development in home schooling, there is a | | | | |
| great deal of interest in the world of | | | | By finding out the issues of black home |
| epidemiological research concerning the | | | | schoolers and their parents, these guidebooks |
| details of the African American home | | | | will attempt to help families better handle |
| schooling experience. The focus, | | | | the pitfalls with the information they need |
| specifically, is on African American | | | | to make their experience run smoother. What |
| experience when newly home schooling, as well | | | | will make these guidebooks different from the |
| as the experience of African American parents | | | | other home schooling guides currently on the |
| of home school graduates. | | | | shelves is their Afro-centric focus. |
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| Resources for African American home schoolers | | | | African American culture is often one of the |
| are becoming more and more available. A group | | | | fundamental reasons that African American |
| focused solely on African American families | | | | families choose to home school. By |
| who home school is called African American | | | | incorporating black culture into home school |
| Unschooling. It is a network with members | | | | curricula, African American families have the |
| throughout the country, all of whom are black | | | | opportunity to impart a rich history and |
| families who home school. | | | | proud tradition that gets lost in the |
| | | | predominantly white-favored public and |
| A magazine is also available for those who | | | | private school systems. |
| would like to know more about the experience | | | | |
| of African American home schoolers and | | | | The opportunity to network with other black |
| perhaps pick up a few tips. The magazine is | | | | home schooling families and learn from |
| called FUNgasa: Free Oneself! The Magazine | | | | articles written from an African American |
| for African-American Home Educators. | | | | perspective, with the black American |
| | | | experience in mind, is a major victory in the |
| Another resource in the making combines the | | | | world of home schooling. What heretofore has |
| efforts of African American Unschooling and | | | | been a predominantly white movement is now |
| FUNgasa. African American Unschooling | | | | opening up to embrace the cultural experience |
| steadily works to gather data from various | | | | of all races and ethnicities, making the home |
| African American home schooling families in | | | | schooling a truly inclusive one. |
| the form of surveys. With the data they | | | | |