Comments about The Pennsylvania Home Education Handbook

"Certainly for anyone in PA as well as homeschoolers everywhere, Diana provides needed info on educational styles, home schoolers' rights, responsibilities and resources and possibly very useful forms that may be copied as part of a homeshooler's portfolio."

Mary Ellen Bowen, National Coalition of Alternative Community Schools, National Coaliton News, Spring 1990

"This is a handbook to make you wish your state had a handbook, and it should serve as an example for anybody who contemplates publishing one. One of the goals of the handbook is to suggest ways to meet restrictive, unimaginative state recordkeeping requirements without having to give up adventurous homeschooling methods."

Earl Stevens, Talk About Learning # 10

"This book is a comprehensive guide to complying with the law as simply as possible without having to change homeschoolers' methods of educating. Pennsylvania's law, passed in December, 1988, is the longest homeschooling law in the country, and it contains many compromises and concessions that can be detrimental to homeschooling families. This book shows how homeschoolers in Pennsylvania can work with their restrictive law in a variety of ways, reflecting the diversity of homeschooling families."

Mark and Helen Hegener, editors, Home Education Magazine

"An excellent and comprehensive guidebook for parents interested in homeschooling in the state of Pennsylvania, with information which would be valuable anywhere."

Eagle Forum News & Notes

"I'm sure homeschoolers in Pennsylvania are going to be incredibly grateful to you for making such a useful handbook available to them. This is the kind of thing we always suggest that someone in each state do so that new homeschoolers can get the information they need easily."

Susannah Sheffer, editor, Growing Without Schooling

The book is comprehensive and accurate... and should be extremely helpful to Pennsylvania homeschoolers."

Joseph Bard, Commissioner of Basic Education, Pennsylvania Department of Education.

"An invaluable resource for homeschoolers, Diana Baseman gives us a step by step explanation of Act 169 and how to comply with it. For all of us who have dreaded the August 1st deadline and are overwhelmed with the new legal requirements, this book gives timely help."

Herb and Nancy Van Schoick, homeschool support group leaders