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